The most beautiful scenery is on the Northwest Ring Road.

This is an organized and premeditated group activity. On may 1 day, I proposed the northwest link in the group, but this proposal was rejected due to time and climate problems. It was also mentioned that it was 5.20. In the group, Guan Ge suggested that everyone start to prepare according to their own situation-take time off and make a travel guide. Six people finally decided to go, brother Guan and his girlfriend, Zongsang and his wife, Lao Zhou and me.

? On Children's Day, I went to Guangzhou to meet Guan Zi and Wu Si, and then flew to Xi 'an together. Lao Zhou also flew from Ningxia to Xi 'an to meet us, and then flew to Xining together. At this time, Mr. Sang and Mr. Sang have boarded the high-speed train from Xining. We take off from Baiyun Airport in three afternoons 1 1. However, the Socialism with Chinese characteristics flight was routinely delayed, and the three of us waited in despair in front of the delay screen in the terminal. At that moment, I understood the general's wife's feelings when she was waiting for her husband to return from the battlefield. 1 1.20, the words on the screen finally changed. I'm a little glad I didn't wait for nothing, unlike the flight at the next gate, which arranged accommodation directly.

The plane was an hour late, but it didn't affect our trip. I boarded the plane and found my seat. Sitting next to me was a graduate of CUHK Medical College and a beautiful little sister. The four of them went to Xi 'an to attend the graduation ceremony. As a senior who has been in Xi 'an for four years, I certainly want to introduce Xi 'an's delicious food to her, so we had a good chat all the way. After arriving in Xi, I called Lao Zhou, but I couldn't get through. This is a direct loss of contact. I was so scared that I quickly turned on my mobile phone to search the news of the plane accident. An hour later, this guy arrived at the airport and gave me a call. We met smoothly. His reason for being late is more exciting than ours-the plane found something wrong when it was preparing to take off on the runway. So the plane went back to the boarding gate to let everyone off the plane, and a plane was sent behind, so it was later than us.

? 6.2? Xining-Qinghai Lake-Heima River

? Xi flew to Xining on the hour. When I left the airport, I saw the snow on the opposite mountain. Our short sleeves are not suitable for this occasion, so everyone consciously takes out their coats and puts them on. Pick up the car in the parking lot and then pick up Mr. Sang and Mr. Cian. The two men did something that proved to be very wise-they took their aunt's thermos pot in Xining. Here, the six protagonists finally joined forces. In a flash, I remembered going to Hanzhong to see rapeseed five years ago when I was a junior. It was also these two couples, plus me and another baby in the dormitory. Now these two couples are still in love as always, and I am still the same as five years ago-single dog. Not much to say, come on, prepare dry food, buy two boxes of water and go straight to Qinghai Lake.

According to our plan, we will go to Ta 'er Temple first, cross Sun Moon Mountain, and then come to Qinghai Lake. But people's interest in temples is not very strong, and the scenery along Qinghai is too charming, so we drove all the way to the lake.

We drove along the road by the lake to a place with few people, and then got off to enjoy the scenery. In the car, everyone can only see the beautiful scenery from a distance, so after stopping, we ran to the lake area like runaway wild horses. Qinghai Lake belongs to a region with high altitude and thin air. At first glance, you can see that the lake has a spherical curvature. Blue lake and blue sky, you can't find the dividing point between lake and sky at a glance. Together with the green grass by the lake and the white clouds floating in the air, it looks like an oil painting under the lens. The lake is clear and cool. We specially filmed a video of a small wave on the lake. The gravel on the lake has been washed as smooth and clean as a baby's bath. After the game, everyone decided to take a photo with the car we rented before getting on the bus, so we sat on the road and took a photo. But our location is too far away, and there are no passers-by, so it's a pity that there are only five people in the so-called group photo.

According to the plan, we are going to arrive at the hotel booked by Heimahe Township at 6: 30 in the evening, so after a short visit to Qinghai Lake, we will proceed as planned. No one gets altitude sickness when driving, but our mount gets altitude sickness-the decibel of the horn drops sharply and the acceleration is slow when stepping on the accelerator. However, this still won't affect us to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way and arrive at the reserved hotel on time at 6: 30 in the evening. The accommodation conditions in Heimahe Township are a little different from what we expected. After discussion near the hotel, we finally decided to stay near Chaka Salt Lake in the evening. The next morning, we changed from watching the sunrise in Heima River to watching the sunrise in the salt lake. Then we get off and find a place to eat. We ate in the restaurant with the first rating in public comments, and ordered several local dishes unique to this season, plus kang pot mutton. The food is very good. This Kangguo mutton has refreshed my understanding of mutton and is highly recommended. According to the store's propaganda, the life of this sheep is extremely enviable-eating Cordyceps sinensis, drinking mountain spring water and enjoying the natural scenery every day. Do you feel inferior to a sheep? I thought we would drive for a while at night, but it's already after 8: 30 at night and after 9: 00 at night, so it should still be daytime when we arrive at the salt lake.

It is said that the most beautiful thing in Chaka Salt Lake is not the daytime, but the sunny night. When the dome is full of stars, there is endless starry sky under your feet, just like walking in the milky way, without land. This is the exact words included in our guide, so after we got to the hotel and cleaned up briefly, we drove to Salt Lake City in the evening, but the weather seemed different from what we saw in the guide. Finally, we got off and looked at the sky, felt the temperature difference between day and night in Wulan County, and went back to sleep.

6.3? Chaka Salt Lake-Xiaochaidan Lake-Emerald Lake-Aksai Petroleum Town-Dunhuang

? At six o'clock, we set out on time to watch the sunrise in Salt Lake, but the sun came out before we checked in. But it doesn't matter, witty we take local materials and take a silhouette directly at the door.

? Apart from the cold in the morning, the biggest feature of salt lake is probably that it is suitable for taking pictures. The so-called people walking by the lake is like traveling in a world of pictorial. Not much to say, just go to the picture.

The advantage of coming early is that there are few people, so you can take photos wherever you want. When I went out, I found a big wave of tourists coming in, and I felt frozen for an instant. Leaving the salt lake, we went straight to Xiaochaidan Lake. Before Xiaochaidan was developed, we stopped for a while to take photos, then left, and then drove directly to Emerald Lake. There are almost no cars on the whole road from Salt Lake to Aksai Oil Town, and there are almost no cars in the surrounding villages, which is called no man's land. On the way, we saw a large area of solar panels, stretching for several kilometers, which caught our attention. It also passed through the ant deep forest tree planting area, which is worth getting up every morning to collect green energy. Due to the limited equipment, Yuhu didn't take a panoramic view of the small lake, so it had to make do with the scenery of the single lake. At noon, the temperature is about 20 degrees, but as long as you get into the water, you will feel the cold salt water in the lake. The development of Emerald Lake is also in the primary stage. After playing for less than an hour, everyone started to leave for the next stop. Today's trip didn't follow our plan at all, but it's a pity that Brother Guan works overtime every night to make a travel guide.

After leaving Emerald Lake, we set our destination directly in Dunhuang, the oil town of Aksai, and we passed directly without stopping. The section from Emerald Lake to Aksai is the closest to the no-man's land. Whether it's expressway or the national highway, our car has been lonely for a long time. Halfway through, we crossed the most beautiful no-man's land highway 66. The car is driving at a high speed and there is no opponent. Maybe we were too ostentatious, and finally God couldn't stand it. A sandstorm blew directly and drove us to the high-speed service area. Stay in Dunhuang directly at night. After all, Dunhuang is a tourist city and its accommodation conditions are quite good.

6.4 Dunhuang-Yumenguan-Ya Dan Ghost Town-Yangguan

? Why use the elegy of willow to complain about the delay of spring, old Yumenguan, a spring breeze is not blowing! Gather for dinner in the morning, prepare dry food and water, and after refueling, we go straight to Yumenguan. At the gate, we were greeted not by the director, nor by the conductor, but by security guards and soldiers. Although we passed several security checkpoints along the way, we were the first to help our brother. When the vehicle approaches, consciously pull over and take out the ID card for inspection. There's another episode here. Mr. Sang washed his shoes the night before, but he couldn't do it at the moment, so he tied them to the door handle and planned to air dry them naturally. The security guard asked a question, and Mr. Sang always answered it, which made us all laugh, even the professionally trained soldier brother couldn't hold back. How far past the customs, you will see many military vehicles. After a certain distance, there will be soldiers with guns at the fork in the road. At this time, everyone consciously put away their mobile phones and looked at the front. We left the area for dozens of kilometers with our soldiers and brothers without looking back, and then stopped to rest and play in the no-man's land until we watched the news the next day.

On the way, we found a seasonal river. This season, just the melting snow on the mountain merged into a river, and we couldn't help playing for a while.

Next, we go to Ya Dan ghost town to punch in. It is said that a ghost town is called a ghost town because the wind sounds like a devil's cry. Friendly reminder, you should go to the Ya Dan Museum to preview your lessons and then see the landforms of Ya Dan, just like receiving nine-year compulsory education and then taking the senior high school entrance examination.

Sincerely advise friends to drink a glass of wine, and it is difficult to meet their loved ones when they go out to Yang Guan in the west. The sun goes down very late here, so we can't directly experience the lonely smoke in the desert and the long river setting sun. Drive straight back, punch in at Yangguan, and there is a management office under construction behind Yangguan, so you can't enter. In thousands of years, in the endless wilderness, I met me who likes to drive around, neither earlier nor later. I can only say softly, "Are you here, too?" There is a small pond in this place, which is rare in the desert. So on the edge of the pond, a three-color distribution of sand, poplar and pond was formed. When we left, Brother Guan came down with a beautiful big stone in his hand as a souvenir.

It was still early when we returned to Dunhuang. After dinner, we played in the riverside park in the city for a while. I had planned to go to the city to watch the sunset, but the location was not good, so we planned to see the beautiful scenery by the river. At this time, the weather was fine, and then I found 50 yuan by the river, which became the starting capital for our investment and charity-playing scratch. The sun went down, we went to buy the materials we needed the next day, and then began to go back to the hotel to rest. At half past ten in the evening, our four grandfathers came out to play scratch music on time. After the owner of the first store said there was no scratch, the second store closed. Finally, I decided to have a barbecue. At first, I refused. After all, according to my living habits, I don't eat after eight o'clock in the evening, but my hospitality is hard to refuse. Then I found a barbecue shop, and I started to order mutton kebabs, lamb kidneys, sheep bellies and sheep hoofs. Finally, I ate everything, and there seems to be another sentence that is really delicious. . . . . .

6.5 Dunhuang-Mogao Grottoes-Mingsha Mountain

? ? According to the tour guide, tickets for Mogao Grottoes should be booked one month in advance. I thought I would leave Dunhuang with regret. I didn't expect that we arrived early in the peak season of Mogao Grottoes, and we could still book class A tickets. To get to the Mogao Grottoes, you should have a basic understanding of watching digital movies first, and then go to the grottoes to receive the guidance and explanation from the staff. It will be shocked by the wisdom and skills of the ancients here, and it will also be sad for the damage and loss of cultural relics. I don't want to explain too much here. I suggest you visit it yourself.

After leaving the Mogao Grottoes, we drove to Crescent Spring first, but we took the wrong road on the way to someone else's orchard, where there were many mouth-watering apricots. However, as law-abiding citizens with morality, ideals, culture and discipline in the 2 1 century, we didn't get off to pick. I saw the introduction of scenic spots and ticket prices at the entrance of Yueya Spring, and agreed to take a day trip to Mingsha Mountain Desert. We arrived in the desert more than half an hour earlier than the appointed time. At first, I planned to play mahjong to kill time, but there was no mahjong in the shop. Fortunately, we brought our own poker, so we played poker.

Maybe there were many people and it was still hot, so the tour guide began to let us play beach motorcycles and sand skiing. As a result, I was tanned several times. So I played sand skiing twice and went back to the store to rest. At this time, I saw a girl in the crowd. It was a beautiful woman in the western regions, with a pair of phoenix eyes, two curved arch eyebrows, slim and enchanting figure, and a scarf around her face. Later, we went to other places in the desert to play around, and the zip line and suspension bridge were all easy to handle. It is also fun to play with different tourists.

After watching the sunset in the desert, we began to return to the place where we ate. By the time I came back, the beautiful women in the western regions had taken off their scarves and sat near the desert. I deliberately walked past her sight, and sure enough, she threw a ray of smile at me and asked me if it was hot in the desert. I sat next to her and chatted with her for a while. It turns out that she is also a tour guide. When I got back to our desk, I found three girls on it. They also came to the northwest ring to play and signed up for the camping activity tonight. I learned that they had just come from Hoh Xil. And our old comrade Zhou also asked one of the girls for WeChat on the grounds of looking at photos of Tibetan antelopes. There is an open-air KTV at dinner, and tourists dance spontaneously. The atmosphere is very warm. Some of my young sisters are professional disco dancers, and their hot dances are also unique and wild, so I will be a quiet and handsome man. Then there are regular performances and bonfire parties, and the atmosphere is quite good.

In the desert, the temperature plummeted at night, and the key to waiting was Guan Ge. Brother Guan Zi took Wu Si to play with the sand, so we had to go up the mountain to find him. When I found him, I said I was a little cold and I had to get my clothes. They came up with an excellent way to bury me, and my protest was invalid. Then a tragic scene happened.

I'm not used to living in a tent, because the wind in the desert is very strong at night and the temperature changes greatly. The next morning, everyone spontaneously went up the mountain to watch the sunrise, but unfortunately the day didn't work out. Today's sun is particularly shy, showing a ray of morning glow and then it is gone. Seeing the sun again may be in midair.

6.6 Dunhuang-Jiayuguan-Zhangye Colorful Danxia-Qilian Mountain

Starting from Dunhuang, I started my return trip. First, I visited Jiayuguan and went straight to Zhangye. Zhangye's Danxia landform takes a bus to the scenic spot, and it takes about 20 minutes to turn around. Our raiders said that the most beautiful National Highway 227 must be seen, so we got off the expressway not far from Zhangye and embarked on the National Highway. At first, we felt cheated. There are some ordinary scenery along the way, which is completely out of touch with the word "the most beautiful". Until we drove into Qilian Mountain, everyone took photos and sent friends. In fact, this is just the beginning. The next day, everyone consciously deleted the contents of the most beautiful national highway 227 today, because the ones behind it were more beautiful.

6.7 Ebao-Qilian Mountain Prairie-Gangshika Xuefeng-Dabanshan-Heiquan Reservoir-Xining

When we drove into Qilian Mountain last night, we were attracted by the scenery on the mountain: the roadside was a river formed by melting snow on the mountain, and the grass on the mountain was neat, even like paint. Look up and you will see some snow on the top of the mountain, like cream on the top of the cake. White clouds like marshmallows were swept across the mountain peaks, and the whole picture was printed on the deep blue sky background. So early this morning, we can't wait to start and continue to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Qilian Mountain. Drive directly through Goose Castle to Grassland Amusement Park, and get off to play and take photos. When I was playing on the grassland, I remembered Dao Lang's In that Far Away Place. Even without that good girl, I would be a lamb here.