8/12-- Hohhot Diary (Part One)
Hohhot, Baotou 8:00 204 * 10:10
* 10000 Sutra Tower, Inner Mongolia Museum
Nights come and the rain lasted until the morning, the weather was cool and of course, can be run for the trip This is not what the good weather. On rainy days, I just want to stay home and read tea faint play computer. Ah these days a little homesick, the call to the mother had.
5 When the call did not intend to go and read the map only know very far in the suburb of Baotou, how to see not enlightening.
Train was fast, the Loop Plain arrows Trinidad fertile fields in general regression. Looked through the window to the north, you can see the continuous big Aoyama. Yinshan Daqingshan is the offshoot and over the heavy Yinshan mountains, it should be is the border with the Mongolian People's Republic of the long border bar.
Flexor calculation, turn my journey through the Qilian Mountains, Qinghai Plateau, Tianshan, Pamir, Altai, Helan Shan, Yinshan, these are different people shine with a well-known mountains of civilization. Although I did not like the way the locals like to pay homage to the right, but is always immersed in that epic atmosphere, quietly looking for their soul track.
That is to go under the train ticket hall, but could not get a sleeper ticket tomorrow to Hailar. I just bought a ticket to Beijing, hoping to board another Jianjihangshi, it is best to fill the berth, if it did not go well in Beijing, the change train ride from Beijing to Manchuria.
Hohhot is the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, but it is a real Han Chinese city. Pedestrians are the Han Chinese-style dress, appearance is the expression I can not see the Mongols look. Let us put aside the city could account for the majority of Han Chinese, that is, the Mongolian people living here, I am afraid can not call them the "Mongolian," the bar. I have seen them and the nomadic Mongolians in Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia and the formation of independent States citizens, should have a very big difference. Although the body of their Mongolian ancestors no doubt that the same blood flowing, but they and a large number of Han Chinese, mixed and left the nomadic life in favor of farming fields on the plains at the Loop, they are no longer "Mongol" a. They log book in the household above the national category, and another must be logged in the "origin" as devoid of meaning, they are just "Chinese."
Car Rental afternoon, went to the eastern outskirts of the urban area 20 km away from the 10000 Sutra Tower, commonly known as the White Tower. Sule Pagoda was built in the Liao Dynasty, but also calendar Jin, Yuan number of North Korea, Tajikistan has Khitan scripts, Jin, Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan and other questions in mind in different languages. From the exterior point of view, Baita is not very high, and only seven Buddha, the second and third tiers of Zhuanke Buddhas statue is a strange feeling.
Reinforcement along the escalator into the tower, the tower has not been installed lighting facilities to be in the dark. I explored the reverse formulation of the tower out of, is a major cellular saw eyes, suddenly Xiachu a cold sweat. Crept in through it, You Jing follow a faint crow. I am the tower around the Sule Pagoda circle the stage, it is clear that these processes exquisite wall carving.
Author: sadrosed