Speaking of "sea of death", many people will want to "Taklamakan desert", in fact, a real "sea of death" should not be "Taklamakan
Desert, "but Lop Nor!
In the Lop Nur, there are two different nature of the "sea of death": a sea of death is the formation of the atomic bombings, the other dried up the formation of Lop Nor
The sea of death. The formation of Sea of Death is a moment of the atomic bombings of the business; Lop Nur dried up the formation of Sea of Death is a gradual change. These two characteristics are not
With the sea of death, contains the twentieth century left us with two inspiration: the challenges we face, half from the high-tech miracle; the other half from self -
Deterioration of the natural environment, the deterioration of the natural environment often results from human activities!
Camp Old Town and the Sun Cemetery
November 3, 2003, our line of five people, multiplied by two丰田越野车, carrying two satellite phones and two GPS, starting from Urumqi, by way of One
Glacier by balgantai arrived Korla, which is a steep mountain road.
4, we proceed from Korla, along the way at a place called the name is not on a small village to eat Kaoquan Yang, where Kaoquan Yang 40 yuan 1 kg, is to use shuttle
Shuttle firewood grilled taste beautiful, well known for. At noon we arrived in 34 groups, a sport utility vehicle carrying 90 kg of gasoline, the other an off-road vehicle fitted with a sufficiently
With 15 days of food and water.
From 34 corporations, we down the road. After 35 missions along the desert highways, Kongquehe visited the ancient city of Sai Ying Pun, Sai Ying Pun ancient ruins north, Camp Old
Burial tomb and the sun. Camp Daowa tomb were by and large, human bones everywhere, and some have meat! Sun River north shore of the ancient cemetery is located in Kongquehe. It is the winter of 1979
By archaeologists Houcan, Binghua, etc. found that there are dozens of tombs, the middle of each block is surrounded by a circular piles of dead grave, with one foot outside
How high the stakes surrounded by seven circles, and the formation of a number of rays, showing the sun-like radiation rays. The carbon-14 determination, the sun has been the tomb 3800 years, it is
Which nation which tribal burial ground? Why is buried here? Where these people live? Is to the sun as a totem of the construction Cimu there are still other significant ...
... Over the past 20 years, is still a mystery. Lop Nur among civilizations and Loulan civilization nearly 2000 years how the fracture is going on here? Perhaps the tomb of the Sun
Mystery solved, there is also a conclusion. Here unearthed 3,800 years ago for the Indo-European race, "Loulan beauty." Found that nearly 10 sites of ancient man, a
These stone balls, hand-made pottery in Gaza, bronze pieces, the three prism winged bronze arrowhead, animal bones, beads and other materials of human remains exposed in the sand dunes are not fully covered
Yellow Earth surface. There are some 5000-6000 years ago knives, stone spears, stone arrows, small blades, stone-core and so on. This clearly shows that today
Is a barren land of Loulan, rehabilitation late Neolithic, Bronze Age until the early Han Dynasty, did green luxuriant forest coverage rate of 40%.
We are camping in the desert night. Desert over the moon, both classical beauty, another wild beauty. This is a truly ancient month, an ancient
Hu Yue, next to the children without a trace of clouds, virtuous so, so lonely, so lonely. This is another one wild month, a desert night sky of the month. May
Because of the reasons here, deserted it, how can it be so bright, bright be so wild, bright be so reckless, bright people get scared, too bright
That one can not gaze long time to it. I have never seen so many stars in the sky, so low, so large and so bright. Tonight would suddenly discover that the original Star
Stars were also Yuanbi earth, where it gathered. Galaxy sky is dry Kongquehe reflection in the sky do?
Malan Disinfection Station and salt spring
The third day, we continue to Kongquehe the order of the ground, flanked on the left is not a high mountain range on the right is the Kongquehe ancient river channel, river channels is full of Tamarix
And Populus euphratica. Now that the eco-type reasons, Kongquehe ancient rivers and rich vegetation, greener!
Soon we went to the Malan disinfection station, where a large number of monuments and relics, such as the rockery, car washing points, all closed and ground boots winter pen, etc..
In the past, when the vehicle returns from the nuclear test area over here, must be strictly sterilized in order to return to Malan Ji places. China from July 30, 1996 a moratorium on nuclear
Tests, but the nuclear test site area is still an important military restricted zones, each post of duty soldiers are still guarding this piece have exploded over the past 30 years, over 40 times
Atomic and hydrogen bombs, and now has died down, and may go on forever silent no man's land.
Along the way we have gone through several nuclear tests had used the abandoned barracks, where there are many words of the plate in 1964, and electronic equipment. It
Their position more in slowly on high ground, much like the floats Sand Sea islands one by one. Dilapidated housing, seem to have been a storm while several broken up on the beach
Ship, messy in crowded together. There are some scattered around the vicinity of the abandoned oil drums, as if to climb up the beach a group of marine animals, have been starved to death, where the
. The roof of each house were tear up, and all the days of unrestrained big mouth, in a dialogue with God! At 15 o'clock on October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb
Explosions in the Lop Nur success: Kuanggu prehistoric group of the Lop Nur, a bright flash of white light, the hot fireball soaring into the sky, a huge mushroom cloud rose on the high-altitude
, A strong shock wave will test the region artillery, tanks, overturned, aircraft are washed in the wind like a leaf the name of spin ... ...
Night we live in salt water near the spring. Source of the formation of a small lake beautiful, brilliant. We are in the salt-ri wash feet, is responsible for the
Activities in Xinjiang International Sports Travel Service Mr. Zhong Lin because love winter swimming, but also on many occasions across the salt water spring! (Now think of it, we are very scared, because
For the atomic bomb from the point where only a few kilometers, there are nuclear radiation! )
Kongquehe and the Dragon
Kongquehe is a thing of the river flow. If the "traced", which originated in the upstream from the depths of the North Tianshan Kaidu date. Kaidu
From west to east, into the Yan Achillea Bosten Lake Basin. Starting from Bosten Kongquehe apply to a small southwestern corner Shui for Korla, Weili 2
Sent to the desert cities, mannose, and then turned eastward, has been along the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert to the east and finally into the Lop Nur.
Xinjiang this place there is water there is good scenery. "Open all River - Bosten Lake" is a silver line of fall with a pearl; "Kongquehe - Lop Nor" is a
Fall of silver wire with a pearl. This is the upper and lower half of it urges the two together to form a water system, and carries out the prosperity and civilization of ancient northern Silk Road.
The upper half of this water, "Kaidu River - Bosten" first-line, and now there are still lai scenery. The next half of it urges the river, "Kongquehe - Lop Nor," a
Line, then had completely dried up. "Kongquehe - Lop Nur" From the ancient land of water lao has evolved into today's non-dripping leftover desert nature of this
The long process of change, so that the area around Lop Nur Kongquehe the two sides and formed a strange Yardang Landform. In the Peacock River North line, it stretches the
One of about 20-30 km wide band Yardang Landform. Yardang Landform for the gods of nature, is a vehicle impassable, on foot across the magic is difficult
Ghost array, scam ---- Dragon! Dragon City is more spectacular than the Karamay of Mo Guicheng area is greater.
Loulan of protected areas and land-Yin Ruins
There Loulan protected areas in the Dragon brand, because there is already a protected area of Loulan. Western Region, one of the 36 countries Loulan live on the historical stage
Jump the Siwubainian it in the 4th century AD, the mysterious demise is what reasons which are still different opinions. After a 1500 years, the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, and Rob
Who guide Aoerdeke on March 28, 1900 in turn it is to re-find that quite a stir in the world, has been called "the Oriental Pompeii." For centuries, Loulan 1
Straight is the China and around the world, explorers, historians, travel, home study visits hot spots. Loulan Beauty, Loulan tombs, coffins Loulan color one after another ... ...
A mystery Loulan temptation of all people. According to "Records of the Historian Dawan Biography" and "Han Western Regions," documented as early as two centuries ago, Loulan is
Western Regions a well-known "Cheng Kuo's Garden", with a population of more than 14000 soldiers, nearly 3000 people, can be called a great country. Is the ancient Silk Road of ancient Loulan
Guan Yang on the west, the first stop, when the traffic on this line is "messenger sea in the Road," with heavy traffic, urban and economic prosperity. Strangely, fame
Awesome prosperity of the Kingdom of Loulan Wuliubainian later, but never four centuries later, history is not recorded does not pass the column name, and suddenly fizzled out.
After a Loulan brand of protected areas began to turn right after the vehicle arrived at a Highlands, where a large number of human bones scattered on the ground, Buddha bead debris and rusty arrows
First, here is the earth Yin ruins, archaeologists in China discovered and named a logistics Han Inn site, in the ancient Silk Road in a military
To land.
Loulan Protection Station and Yu Chunshun tomb
The fourth day, sunrise. Clusters on the eastern horizon lit the torch, the torch flame that small clusters gradually enlarged, and bigger ... ... just a little while, semi -
Arch a fireball out of the ground, will be coated with a layer of Lop Nor wilderness golden light. This is a no hills, the silence of wilderness without any vegetation. It
Unload it all the historical burden, magnanimous heart can have days, gas Tianyu Guan. In such an ambitious rising against the background of a red sun, so magnificent, so
Brilliant, this is in my life I have never seen the magnificent picture! Dawn shining on the companion's face, body, heart, and this is a very touching scene. He
The eyes were calm and focused, with surprise. This is a group for our lives looking for the poetic, but also where they usually have to serve their own survival and
Toil bustle of life. In today's memorable morning, they are temporarily removed from the battlefield of life, just like this piece of history unloaded weight of the Lop Nor desert
Like the spirit of unloaded their burden, to accompany his soul came here to do a short rest. I looked from behind, everyone's head, shoulder
, There are a halo ring. A vehicle on the car's roof is also a layer of bright Fan Chu. Desert, the dawn, like water off a diffuse, like a sand dune, the sun is
Spillover from places as far over the direction of our feet. Oh, the sun close to the ground to circle not a circle moment, very like a baby just out of womb bodiless, round, red, fat, and exceedingly lovely. I saw the sun and the earth mother, with the blood together with the meat to adhesion, adhesion as a place where the umbilical blood
Belt, soft to be stretched, elongated, and finally break away from. A mass of flesh and blood, and finally grow into a red sun, leaving the earth, heaven away.
To leave the soil Yin ruins, dozens of minutes later to Loulan protection stations, there are two houses and an underground car palaces, underground live in summer palace
Car house is lived in the winter, there are three men, alcohol is their best friend. Yu Chunshun tomb is located in export of iron river near an earth station, 1996
June Yu Chunshun disoriented walking this point, systemic failure and death due to thirst. He died from his hand, when water and food supply of landfill sites is only 2 km.
Are now built a large number of cemetery gravestones and monuments, the whole tomb area is a grand, linear, up to 100 meters, mimicking a brave at the last moment, slowly
, Step by step the 100 meters and finally crashing fell to the ground!
Low-lying dry lake Lop Nor, just as a huge solar concentrator mirror, or summer season, every day at noon the surface temperature of up to sixty or seventy
Degrees. Yu Chunshun retrolabyrinthine seeking dripping and not, have to heat at 46 ℃ in a difficult journey, digging to find water, and finally a moral one. Yu Chunshun the spirit of the extremely valuable
, We Chinese people are very need to promote such a dare to take risks, dare to pioneering spirit. I wonder if Yu Chunshun satellite phones and GPS, everything becomes
Very easy ... ...
Lop Nur, a lake and the two lake
From the map view, Lop Nur lake was gourd-shaped, the southern tip of slender, wide north. Dry the beach of Lake Lop Nur, the ground covered with ancient euphratica
Root of the cross-section, a circle is a tree, one next to one, we can see the ancient Lop Nor has a dense forest. The middle part of each circle
Wood are not, and the remaining lap edge of the wood grain is very clear that they have been petrochemicals, but relatively loose texture, a break with both hands will be able to break with both hands broken.
I came to the last one Jadin Dry Lake east coast earth station front, and its bottom circle washed off by water marks to prove that the earth station in the water
Stand-off. And encouraged farmers to a lower-lying areas near Taiwan, there are two knots lying on the sand where Hu Yang, much like the two faces of Kate and the elderly, experienced many vicissitudes, Man
Face wrinkles, eye socket unfathomable, almost unable to open their eyes, hoarse were the stunning and unexpected. I judge that this two Hu Poplar pimple is a drift come from elsewhere
. They drifted with water in Lop Nur, a countless number of years, when the lake completely dried up, the ultimate being stranded on this piece-lying areas.
Kongquehe along with many of the numerous land units, compared Yardang Landform completely dry lake Lop Nur is another spectacle. People could not believe it is too flat,
It seems the front is not a limitless expanse of flat sand, but rather a calm end up with a layer of thin ice on the lake, with a total worry about the thin ice under the wheels of a sudden
Broken, we will not even go on the sinking car with people at heart, there are always a little less sense of security. This is the endless expanses of sandy lake bottom like a serious chap
Split the skin of the elderly, the surface layer of salt, have been cracked open the shell, a block tilt.
Tens of kilometers wide dry lake bottom of the lake there is no "hill" shape ups and downs, just some slight ups and downs of the "ripples" and "rippling blue waves" was suddenly "frozen" live
Appearance, is a "Dead Water Ripples." According to the information briefing, Lop Nor in 1972 finished the last drop of water evaporation, and finally completely dried up.
Loulan ruins and modern equipment
Yimapingchuan sport utility vehicle crossed the dry lake bottom of the lake Lop Nor, open on the West Coast beaches, Qiu He once flew at the aspect of wind erosion landforms, groove to the sand dunes
Rushed into the gully between. Climb over one another sandbag sandbags, 3 hours later, we arrived at the periphery of Loulan site, where all the vegetation, all dead
A. Sand dunes between the lengthwise gully some Populus euphratica, Tamarix and sand plants withered branches. They have stood in place for centuries, and still do not do an in-situ
Moving to standing. As the Lop Nur desert was not the least bit child evaporated moisture, these plants simply can not be decomposed deadwood. They seemed very patient,
Will also be in place to continue to stand down. They seem to have been patiently waiting, waiting for a busy day Silk Road re-opened, waiting for the prosperity of the ancient Loulan King
Like back to earth.
Was Tamarix over and over a number of sandbags around the stump of the broken torso, "littered with corpses."
We are preoccupied with fighting in the sand dunes between gully all the way, a word not say. Then suddenly emerge Zhonglin sentence: "See, pagoda!"
Nazuo pagoda is the only remaining ruins of Loulan a clear sign. The so-called "pagoda" was in fact it has collapsed, wind into a tall mound. Nowhere to be seen
, And the Yardang Landform stretching tens of miles in a single soil Taiwan is no different, except that it is higher than all other land units. I read had several books on Loulan
Study of books, some with pictures of the ruins of this pagoda to do the cover, some use it to do inserts. Once the driver reminded me a recognized it immediately eyebrows.
Oh, Loulan!
I jumped out of their cars and hearts gush "seize the high ground," the impulse, in the gully between the dunes jump forward to the pagoda to climb over the ruins ran. On several occasions in the gully between the
See Montreal pottery, I also refused to take a Qujian only taking a vigor rushed forward. Tight running sprints, the first one I finally washed the ruins of the pagoda, immediately press
Moving the camera photographed the ruins of a pagoda photo in order to reach the Loulan recorded the exact time on the film.
The Loulan site in the doldrums, not at all angry.
Just near the ruins of Loulan a small piece of low-lying ground, I found miraculously alive and a few bundles of Tamarix needed it. Now, I stood the ruins of a pagoda
Around the observatory to the south there is a dry brook, brook south is a housing site, the site stood a wooden stick, wooden stick with a sharp drop on the actually
Only the birds! That the several bundles Hongliu and the little bird is the annihilation of the ancient Loulan over a thousand years the lives of envoys sent to us so that we have with the ancient Loulan life and life between the communication, rather than endure the extremely difficult life, pre - come to visit the dead.
The Loulan trip, so I felt that once exposure to desert, surrounded by no other life, no vegetation and wild animals and birds, sure I'm also
Would be too lonely without forward and never down. In a moment, even in himself will not find life, sense of self. Death in this barren field visibility of
To several Cong Hongliu, a bird, immediately feel that their lives are covered, hear their own blood in the blood vessels in the body turning to torrents. Man alive
Is because there is grass and trees alive at the same time, there are birds and the animals alive. Humanity has always needed to accompany other life.
For thousands of years, long-running desert winds around the clock here in the cut with the ground, Loulan ruins had been cut into a mound a mutually independent
, Earth station. The ruins of a pagoda is an independent one pier; had a large number of cultural relics unearthed from the "three room" is independent of the ruins of a pier; southwest of the ruins of the houses is an independent
Of a pier; just south of a place to stay with a birdie and is independent in a mound. The sand between the pier and the pier have been constant, daily desert wind gradually scrape away
, Forming a deep gully. These residues are the ruins of the mound, because of collapsed Duan Qiang, beams, fences and Canqiang of Tamarix branches, reeds
And so suppress the sand, only to retain soil, these mound-shaped units.
Feng Sui is a pagoda-shaped rubble mound, the tower is a layer of Tamarix branches, a layer of sticky mud made concurrently with building the heap, the soil in the still clear
Xi to see those dry and enduring Hongliu branches. Stupa mound on the southern slope of the collapse of slump Sengfang have no survival, the ground strewn with Jigen Populus wood beams and a number of red
Liu deadwood. A crack in Populus euphratica roots covered with wooden beams and columns, just like they still maintain the shape. The shape of this crack is unique about each crack and the other adjacent to each other Goulian with intermittent cracks, no crack is a straight Daotou's. Thus, while their whole body cracking the case,
But the entire root pillars able to maintain constant billowing. This is the wood of Populus euphratica in the ruins of Loulan relic features of any other site in any of wooden artifacts will not be opened
Fragmented into this. There is a Populus wood door stones, is a rectangular block has a central circular raised, raised again in a circular central carved a safe
Install a door hinge of the circular pit. Because of its unique shape, we have Fu Zhu its camera pictures.
From the pagoda ruins to the west, crossed a ditch, boarded the "three room" mound. "Three-room" is a site of government offices, is Loulan city center.
This is the last remaining ruins of the Loulan few more walls, walls half a meter thick. Interior space is very narrow, the room width of less than two meters. But the deeper, into the narrow
The one, much like the southern residential areas in the "alleys." This ancient form of government office buildings it is very special, why build such a thick wall? Out of security, or help keep out the cold? Well, this little less than two meters wide Yamen, the sitting is what kind of a official? him the equivalent of today's county or
Mayor? But I know that the ancient Loulan was one of the Western Regions 36, is known as the "country".
Room is not large, there are cultural relics unearthed in the name. This "three-room" is the largest cultural relics discovered, the greatest contribution to the Loulan study of an important archaeological sites. Sweden, Sri Lanka
Wen He will first reach the end of 1900, three Loulan the following year he did in this three-room cleared out of a total of 120 trees to explore Jane, 157 Chinese language instruments. Later
United Kingdom Stein came Loulan several times successively, but also from three rooms in the ruins of two huidui cleared dozens of pieces of important cultural relics. Huidui, that is, the rubbish heap of the ancient government office. Sven Hedin, and Stein are two "ragpicker" Master, the world's two famous explorers and archaeologists, two ancient Western Regions of China
Heritage Thief, two Loulan school's pedigree.
In the "three room" southwest side of a mound on the sand piles stood a circle may be a residential site. Of the goal post on the ground sideways two bulky
, Doorpost next to two large wooden door stones Populus euphratica. Cheng-Yang Junling said farmers and video cameraman, who was last into the Loulan, this door is still stood, and
On this trip to have collapsed, what a shame. They are not without worries that the next time come back, do not know if I can see these things. They also lead me to the room
On the southwest corner of the site to see a stone, but in the sand After asking many not be found, stone gone, I do not know by whom removed. Loulan of surface residue
Heritage is a serious loss of deposit.
Loulan site in the vicinity of the headquarters of our one night camping, the Evening Bell Lam drunk.
The fifth day, we have begun to return.
The seventh day, we have the safe return of Urumqi.
Recall that this seven-day trip to Lop Nur and Loulan, I am surprised to find that: a time when the twenty-first century, along with the popularity of satellite phones and GPS, as well as acceptable
Price, to Lop Nur and Loulan is no longer any danger at all, so long as to bring satellite phones, GPS, and enough food and drink, even if the broken down vehicle
Can not be maintained in situ as long as you stand behind the play satellite phone to inform the location of your can, backup can be reached within 48 hours! Of course, must be at least two-wei
Satellite phone and two GPS, as well as excellent drivers, guides and rear personnel, as the "Xinjiang Line" web site (www.xjx.cc) in the Lop Nur / Loulan 7
On line said:
Loulan in the vast expanse of Lop Nur, only known route is of no use. Must also have the following six conditions to be approaching 100% guarantee the safety of Loulan:
1, with at least two GPS
If you have satellite phones, but there is no GPS, you can not tell the exact location of the rear, because there is no point of reference most of Lop Nor.
At the same time that some GPS will not be used at a critical juncture, it is necessary to carry two or more of the GPS, and built-in RAM batteries must be new, otherwise
A result of lack of electricity could not locate.
2, at least two satellite phones (with spare batteries)
If you encounter problems, there is no satellite phone does not work, because the Lop Nur region there is no cell phone signals, radio stations too far can not be contacted.
Any case, there will be 1% became separated possible, it must carry at least two satellite phones, to assure that the personnel have become separated from satellite phones,
And thus have security assurances, through the intermediary contact with the rear, got separated the two sides will soon be converging, or their actions. Event of a large dust storm, stay in when
Inter will be greatly extended, so battery backup is indispensable.
3, at least two interchangeable parts by a good four-wheel drive off-road vehicles (with traction rope)
Differential of the Lop Nur in the road, any vehicle could go wrong, so there must be two or more of the good off-road vehicles.
At the same time, we must carry all the vulnerable parts and enough gasoline, and the two car parts are interchangeable, and with a traction rope for pulling each other.
4, qualified drivers (familiar with the route, and proficient in car maintenance)
In the Lop Nur region, only GPS is not enough, there must be familiar with the route of a good driver; the Lop Nur in the differential road, any vehicle may be out of question
Title, so the driver must be proficient in vehicle maintenance.
5, enough for 15 days of food and water event of a large dust storms, duration of stay will be extended, but according to our years of experience, in any event no more than 15 days.
6, the rear contact sometimes, unexpected accidents may occur simultaneously or one after another, it must always do a good job back or take the initiative to send a powerful aid workers and convoys.
Author: mark2002002
