September 9 evening 8:40, we take night train to leave the Dunhuang, a night sleeping in the car at 5:00 am the next day more arrived at Turpan in Xinjiang. Night Train ride saves time, but also save the hotel fee, is traveling a good choice. But I do not like this form, because the window is a beautiful landscape can not see the geographical character along the way, folk customs, particularly since we are from the Loess Plateau of China's land above sea level to the lowest in the Turpan Basin, the road, during which there must be a lot of strange things to stay in my lens for me for you, this is undoubtedly a great loss.
Turpan in the morning a little bit cold pressing, only to see them to stay in Xinjiang control of Xiao Wang CITS guide is that we can find a little bit sweeping kind heart, but we still feel as happy as to see their loved ones. Wang Dao took us to Turpan a tribe to open a hotel by Vail to eat breakfast, the plain Uighur waitress, steaming rice porridge, steamed bread and fresh goat's milk, our night's journey fatigue swept away.
Turpan Turpan Basin is located in the middle, with an average elevation of only 32.8 meters, is China's lowest land is also the hottest summer in China, hence known as "Fire Island," said. "Journey to the West" in three of Tang Seng apprentice trapped in the 800 years Huoyanshan story took place in Turpan.
In the ancient city of Turpan Gaochang first tour of the site, we rented a vehicle carriage walk through the ancient city in the middle of the rugged, towering by the rammed earth wall was constructed, tamping thickness 8-12 cm, intermingled a small amount of mud, looking former glory Utah storage, construction sites throughout the city, especially in the southwest of the most intense, when the temples, a Buddhist shrine, the streets are vivid. Back when the whole city has a population of 30000, there are three thousand monks. As the dry climate, rolling waves of sand from time to time so that we could not open eyes, we quickly hid in the middle of the castle. Click on a group of hand carriage of small bells string Uighur children surrounded, and fighting over who gets to sell us their travel goods, I asked a 10-year-old boy, why do not you go to school ah? He was pleased to say that today is Teacher's Day, so holiday, it seems little children to the Teacher's Day as a holiday of their own. In a millennium old city can feel the atmosphere of Teacher's Day and teachers love to teach is indeed deeply rooted among children taught me that when a "teeth Keximoxi" (Hello), I bought him a bunch of little Tong-ling. This is my first one into the harvest in Xinjiang, and I saw along the way on the Uighurs and friendly manner, that "tooth Keximoxi" in Xinjiang really were a big handy.
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