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In the eastern edge of the Taklimakan Desert, there had been one the biggest lake in Xinjiang Lop Nor 11.
Mongolian of "Lop Nur" is "to import more water lake" means,
Lop Nur in the Han Dynasty had also "the vast expanse of 300 years, its Shuiting home, summer and winter does not change." Its area of more than 3000 square km.
Lop Nur into the river due to water diversions and reduced hundred years ago has begun drying up.
The location of Lop Nor moved several times, it was geographer called "wander lake." Lop Nur, there is a geographical mysteries, is said to look upon it from satellite photos, like one of the ear rather, ears, and complete a giant ear lobe.
Lop Nur had had its glorious history, as early as the Neolithic period, there has been human activity.
It is the gateway to the ancient Silk Road, connecting the mainland and the Western Regions to promote the Sino-Western economic and cultural exchanges.
1972 had been the last dry Lop Nur, have not been forgotten by people, the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin a century ago over here into the wilderness.
Peng was missing after the liberation of scientists in here. Lone Ranger Yu Chunshun than half of China in the traveled after the body of the Lop Nor.
Numerous ancient sites and relics, the ancient city of Milan, as well known as the "Pompeii of the East" have buried the ancient city of Loulan in the Lop Nor.
Lop Nor on the map in the southern Ruoqiang County on the northeast and south of Yuli County.
- On the road
During this trip around the Taklimakan Desert, in the numerous dust and bumps, I have continued from the first county Ruoqiang China set out.
Ruoqiang to the road or Yuli Taklimakan Desert along the eastern edge forward.
The National Highway leading to Korla are re-building, the future is going to be an asphalt road.
Is being built along the way forward, a whole three hours we had 62 km ahead.
How many of the bumps on the sidewalk and the sand, the road signs out of rut pressure Banchi even more deeply.
Fall deeply touched wheels in the sand truck, a pity that our bus could do nothing.
The east lane endless desolate Gobi, perhaps only two words can describe it as desolate bar.
The west is the desert wind stretch over the edge to climb can be seen stretching far from a small pyramid-like sand dunes.
More rolling in the sand in the sand-fixation of the reed, but the sand is still a lot of Yan Guo Tao's defense. Take a handful, good good thin fine sand.
Red willow, sea buckthorn, Sang Sang have been far fewer of these drought-resistant vegetation. But still you can see the edge of the Gobi desert and their stubborn presence.
Yun Shi Cheng sand in a team car blocked the road.
Perhaps it is a kind of lucky to see at this time in the distant desert sunset.
Gray sky, the endless desert, the sun cracks the clouds out of its shadow, a white light into the sun.
Round at the moment it is so bright, perhaps only this time I truly understand the ancient poetry of "the desert off the yen," the mood.
So touching.
Next to the east of the forks in the road, that is, Ruoqiang County, 80 km west Zhunkenshubian crowd, that is, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps of the 36 groups.
The famous ancient city of Milan also there.
Rob farm in Milan, who are now only less than 10, who were all in the 36 ethnic groups and housing. "The Last Rob people" refers to there.
The mid-19th century outbreak of plague in the Lop Nur region, where the old Rob who gave a devastating disaster, the surviving ancient people began to abandon their homes, have scattered to flee the.
The legend is more than the fugitive ran Wada, and later put them to the people settled in a place called the Kashi River east Luopu (Rob's homonym, that is, do today's Lop County). The remainder were scattered into the territory of Ruoqiang and Weili.
Milan, 30 km from the farm, the Sand Sea in the dry side of the ruins of the Tarim River, is that Rob's last home of Abu Dan had.
Can be an oasis of yesterday have become today's desert.
Looked out the window is not exhaustive of the Gobi and desert, boring and monotonous, that there is no trace of life, the feeling is very upset trace.
Much dust, you can see the edge of spinning with the wind from the glass to squeeze in, you can hear the sand falls on the body bag rustle.
The way forward quite difficult to walk, each car must have a seam will stop the car, another vehicle, the driver must carefully, are afraid of their own cars accidentally fall in the quicksand.
Roadside construction workers can be seen in underground crude and the wind's "in winter pen."
Board a local farm thirty years old Han told me that on a recent in August, is in their brigade, an over 70-year-old Uygur old man riding a donkey to the Gobi Desert to find lost the calf. Then its on the edge of disappearance of Lop Nur, hundreds of people to search, and find the elderly man has died as a virtual bones.
The dark days slowly down the outside of the sand is also more up. Raising the rear is long of Huang Chen.
The sand in the car and too strong to be a bit bumpy so I feel uncomfortable and vomiting.
Forward should be on the fall until the end of this year established the jurisdiction of the town of Lop Nor. The town under the Ruoqiang County. It is also the oldest in the world 1500 years of history following the Loulan Lop Nor no man's land after the first government agencies.
About 50,000 square kilometers in area, which already exceeds the area of Zhejiang province, we should call it "the first town of China" will never be over.
Night thicker, and finally midnight to see the shadow, and finally to a real population areas. The delay can eat one meal, "supper" of.
Drivers to keep emotion has seen the road sand, stress the need to look at the road the other passengers to help.
More than 370 km of the road opened nearly a full 15 hours.
I am a morning person disposed of at the handlebar of the Wei pear county street.
Here I will be able to see the last Rob who, as well as the beautiful Tarim River, as well as stretching over the Taklamakan desert.
- Rob's territory
Not attend to wash away the night's travel fatigue, lay down a backpack started to look into Rob's mode of transport.
There is no access to the through train, a person can not afford to hire buses to another. To this end choose a transfer program.
Hop on to the pier from the county wide rural Tanzania the small side, but at least six people before the driver opened the car.
More than 30 kilometers of road have been laid off should be of cement, but it is now Henlan.
Intersection Tarim Township Nang pit Kaoquan Yang is said to be the best in Xinjiang as a whole, the fuel used in the desert on the Tamarix and Sang Sang. Will have a special scent.
Roadside we have the "forest tracts", reeds, shrubs and trees have already covered the once green wilderness.
A closer examination, as well as those belonging to Apocynaceae, the famous "Apocynum."
From this by Han Chinese people use homophonic "East Grand Beach" to refer to the end of negotiations package by a surface-bound Rob's village.
Car just Shui people on the village's gravel-bound Rob, I do not sad that the cost of the chartered.
On both sides of the road are green lake-like water, road to a dam-like from its straight through the middle.
Under the high blue sky, white clouds can be seen scattered in the water collections of tall poplar Hu.
P. euphratica leaves still green, reflection already mapping to the water, particularly bright and clear.
Mixture of dead trees in the green of life, proudly stands did not fall.
Small dragonflies flying over from time to time at the waterside. The impulse to constantly shouting parking strong temptation on me.
Entire 11 km of the landscape, finally arrived, to Rob's territory.
- About Rob man
Rob people are fishing in the desert, desert people.
Rob is defined as living in the Lop Nor wilderness areas, Rob speaking dialect, by a combination of a multi-ethnic tribes.
Lop Nur people for generations to live in isolated large and small Hai Zi (ie lakes) between.
'Knot reed for the room, fishing for a living. "Historical record," Rob people do not kinds of grains, non-grazing livestock, the only boat fishing for food, or to adopt a wild hemp, or catch a bird Hashemi Ling, who sell goods to the city and easy to order on behalf of the clothing fabric. "
Formed a relatively closed environment of Rob's unique paradise-like way of life of people.
The river to dry up, vegetation to die, sand to wreak havoc, reed to wither, once again move out of their homes,
From the traditional fishing to today's farming, Rob's life has always been stubborn.
And desert on the edge of the same tenacity Hu poplar.
Up and down five thousand years of the historical vicissitudes of Lop Nor have Rob here, can be witnessed.
- Edge of the Taklimakan Tarim River
Rob who I've been to villages located on the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert, Tarim River in Yuli territory.
Tarim River from here into the Lop Nur, the distance is a tall pyramid-shaped real desert, those who belong to large sand dunes of the Taklimakan.
Passed the Tarim River, traversed a long bridge, broad and torrents of water from rivers like Hotan's jade green and moist.
Bits and pieces of the river, connected in front of large tracts of Haizi and lakes spread all over the collections of the old and tall poplar Hu.
Green leaf has yellowed leaves can be found.
Side of the river, that is, silver under the sun the endless desert.
Rob in the water in the distance paddled their traditional means of transport, Zheng Ke Hu cards boat basin carved poplar.
Take off your shoes feel great sand dunes to climb, how will, and believe that every one on board large sand dune at the top of people will like me excited.
Listening to the wind gently, watching the thin sand flowing forward in the wind, feel the waves, like ripples of sand fold.
So that you have not seen his own Spinning the foot, leaving behind a pile of deep footprints.
Formation of sand from the tilted surface, the large tracts of sand will flow down, you can feel the flow of concepts.
Grains of sand in the afternoon sun is hot, in places where no one will even Tangde feet whitish, we should constantly jumped up.
You can go a long ridge line, you can use sand burying his own, you can also try a decline in the sand.
Stretching endless broad sense can represent another bar.
Dunes look inside, surrounded by desert, the same are associated with shrubs, reeds of the desert "yueyahu." Lake water is so blue and the sky is simply the same color.
Once again, life in flashing the light.
Looked back. Deserts, lakes, rivers, Populus euphratica, Rob people, everything is so coordinated, all the beauty of the case.
At this point they thought of that song, "I have gone through many places, the most beautiful of all, we in Xinjiang."
Really, the most beautiful in absolute or Xinjiang.
Or is this the Tarim River side of the Taklimakan, is that the Tarim River, is this Populus euphratica,
There are those living in "paradise" in the old Rob people.
Author: dellren123
