Dunhuang is a county-level city under Jiuquan, which was called Suzhou in ancient times, which is also the origin of the name Gansu Su. Han said, escape, reach also. Yellow. Dunhuang is also an important landmark on the Silk Road. Zhang Qian arrived here from Chang 'an in the Western Han Dynasty and then led the Western Regions. So Dunhuang has a splendid culture and a long history. The most famous scenic spot in Dunhuang City is the famous Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain, which is not as high as the Millennium.
At night 12: 06, we took a sleeper to Dunhuang in Zhangye. My brother is a very good man, very alert. He is worried that he will lose something in the berth. He didn't dare to take off his glasses all night, and he clung to his mobile phone for fear of falling off. I laughed at him for a long time. The next morning, we arrived at Dunhuang Railway Station, which is far from the city. The youth travel boss told me that a person can take a taxi to the city at the railway station for ten yuan, or a person can take a bus to the Silk Road Hotel and walk to the hotel for three yuan. The bus is very convenient, and you can reach the Silk Road Hotel in the city through the Mogao Grottoes Digital Center.
Draw the key points here. Don't go to Mingsha Mountain in the afternoon. Hey! Dunhuang is one of the areas with the highest solar radiation in China. It is really difficult to go to Mingsha Mountain in the afternoon. This is the suggestion of the hotel owner. I'll share it with you. You can go to Mingsha Mountain early in the morning and then book a ticket for the Mogao Grottoes in the afternoon. There are many bus flights, and the traffic between the two places is very convenient. There is no need to take a taxi, let alone charter a car, which wastes more money.
Dunhuang Railway Station is very beautiful and antique, with flying skies of different shapes on both sides. Besides the golden jade, the inside is also very clean, which fully embodies the spiritual outlook of a famous tourist city.
Go to the hotel by car, have breakfast first, and then go to Mingsha Mountain. We had three breakfasts in Dunhuang, two of which were local.
The beef noodles in the small restaurant are also delicious. I ate seven yuan of meat and was satisfied, but it didn't take long for me to be thirsty like a trapped beast in the desert, especially in Mingsha Mountain. So once again remind friends to eat beef noodles in the northwest, be sure to be mentally prepared and bring more water. I drank mutton powder soup and mixed juice the next day. Powder soup is mutton vermicelli soup. The soup is delicious and the mutton is fat. Mixed juice is rich, including mutton, vermicelli, fried meatballs and Taoist robes. The cassock is a feature of the northwest, and fried tofu contains meat. But I prefer mutton powder soup. I think it tastes more enjoyable. Although there are many things in the juice, there is less meat and less soup. I didn't take pictures, I just stole some pictures to satisfy everyone.
The local elder sister at the same table also ate a sheep skull and warmly invited us to order one, saying it was delicious. I saw her skillfully dig out some meat and sheep brains with chopsticks, which should be delicious, but we were scared to death just watching, let alone talking.
In the center of Dunhuang is a beautiful sculpture, and the pipa plays. We take bus No.3 here to Crescent Spring, which costs two yuan per person, and we also pass through Dunhuang Middle School, Museum and Leiyin Temple, which is very convenient. When the enthusiastic Dunhuang people got on the bus, they gave us a seat and let us sit on the hood in front of the car. The architectural style of Dunhuang Middle School is very unified with the railway station. There are many such antique buildings in this city. Dunhuang is really a delicate and beautiful town.
Dunhuang city is very green and lush. I don't know that it is a city in the northwest of China. Until I arrived at Mingsha Mountain Scenic Area, I saw the vast desert and the endless sand mountain, which was very shocking and somewhat shocking. The landform of the surface has changed too much! There is a commercial street at the entrance of the scenic spot. We bought a sand board because we couldn't bear to sell it. Remind friends who have been there not to buy it. It's still on the way, but we can change a bottle of mineral water from the store on the way back. There is also a 15 yuan rental shoe cover, which we also think is an obstacle, because climbing sand mountains and crossing the desert in it is very tiring, and traveling must be a burden. You can wear plastic sandals and beach shoes to play in Mingsha Mountain, and it will be clean when you come out, so you don't need to rent shoe covers.
Most of the sand hills in Mingsha Mountain are pyramid-shaped, one connected to the other, and the golden color is particularly dazzling under the blue sky in the northwest. There are also teams of camel teams dotted between the sand mountains, and camel bells are bursting, which is a beautiful landscape of Mingsha Mountain. When I came here, I had to climb the sand mountain. I have climbed many mountains, and I think I have good physical fitness. How can this low sand mountain beat me? However, this is not the case. Climbing the sand mountain is a hard job! There are five colors of sand in Mingsha Mountain, which is particularly soft and comfortable to step on, but people can't get it up at all! It is impossible to climb to the top of the mountain by walking upright! There are many footprints I have climbed on the hillside. I landed on all fours and got up like a baby compared with the footprints of my predecessors. This is really climbing! Tired and sweaty, Shashan has no sympathy for me at all. He climbed five steps with difficulty and then went down ten steps. Sweat soaked his clothes. When he looked up, he still couldn't see the top of the mountain, and then he looked back at his feet. His little progress makes people feel helpless and funny. He had to climb over with patience! On the way to rest, an enthusiastic local aunt saw me lying on the hillside and encouraged me to refuel! Almost to the top of the mountain! Go home to the top of the mountain and I'll boil eggs for you! What a lovely aunt! I seem to have eaten a few eggs, full of strength to keep climbing. I climbed for about half an hour and finally succeeded in climbing to the top of the sandy mountain! When the wind howls at the top of the mountain, you can hear the sound of sand. Looking down again, I found that the hillside I climbed was so steep. Look at the footprints I climbed, crooked, deep and shallow, stupid and lovely, and I can't help but admire my feat.
On the sand mountain, I overlooked the people who climbed the sand mountain with me in Crescent Spring. Looking at the crescent moon spring on the sand mountain now, I seem to have forgotten all the hard work. It is so beautiful and magical. I have heard of the crescent spring in Tianzhen since I was a child. It is no exaggeration to describe it with the mirror of the sky and the eye of the desert. In the vast desert, there is such a clear spring, quietly accompanying the sand mountain, and the continuous sand mountain guards the crescent spring like a guardian. I slipped quickly, walked down the mountain and ran to the beautiful crescent spring. As the saying goes, going up the mountain is easier than going down, but in Shashan, it is just the opposite. It takes half an hour to climb the mountain. If only I could slide down the mountain in five minutes. There is a feeling that my efforts have been wasted.
The mountain is full of spirit, and the water is beautiful. Crescent Moon Spring surrounds Mingsha Mountain and has not been buried for thousands of years. There are different opinions on the reasons, which cast a mysterious veil on the beauty of crescent spring in Mingsha Mountain. There is an antique and exquisite building complex near Crescent Spring. You can also enjoy the crescent moon spring when you board the pavilion, but you don't think it is as shocking as what you enjoyed at the top of Shashan Mountain, where you can better understand the life of Shaquan. So I still recommend my friends to go to Mingsha Mountain and climb it to enjoy it.
After visiting Crescent Moon Spring, we went sand skiing. Sliding sand is a slow and flat sand slope hovering halfway up the mountain. In order to facilitate people to walk, a ladder was laid on the slope. Walking on a ladder is much easier than climbing with bare hands, at least it won't slide down, but it's less fun. Halfway up the mountain, I began to queue up to buy tickets, waiting for the sand to slip. There is an interesting episode in the middle. I call the northwest people who sell tickets teachers. Northwest people told me seriously that he was not a teacher. Before I could explain, a friend from the south said that the girl must have told the teacher to read smoothly at school. I don't know that calling teachers is just a habit in our hometown!
My brother is sitting on the sand slide. The staff will oil the skateboard before skiing, then sit down according to their instructions and push it hard and go down. Although the slope is not big, it is extremely fast, and the mountain wind whistling in the ear, the wind and sand whistling and the wind and sand ensemble are very exciting. Although I was scared, it didn't affect my performance. There was no rollover in the middle and it slipped to the finish line smoothly. The trick is that my upper body must not swing from side to side.
The camel team in Mingsha Mountain is a unique scenery in the mountain. I seem to see Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty, leading a long camel team and carrying all kinds of treasures to the western regions. Therefore, it is also a unique experience to ride a camel over Mingsha Mountain. The route of camel riding starts from the entrance of the scenic spot, goes around the mountain and ends near Crescent Spring.
The embarrassing gesture made by the captain of the camel team. Camel riding once 100 yuan, 40 minutes to an hour, is still worth it. You must pay attention to riding a camel. If you wear a hat, you must wrap it in a scarf, because it is easy to be blown away by the wind on the way. And if you want to continue to be exposed to the sun for an hour, you must wear long sleeves like sunscreen. I am the negative textbook. I have sunburned my arm with short sleeves, especially itchy and peeling. On the way to ride a camel, the tour guide will ask to take pictures of us. For a head of 20 yuan each, we all paid in the spirit of coming here. Although we are unwilling, it is really hard to watch the aunt of the team leader, and the sand road is not easy to walk. My aunt was out of breath after her trip. She said that she was very busy these days and couldn't eat at noon. If she pays, she has to pay. They won the happiness of our tourists with their hard work.
Photos taken when I was trembling during the ride. The place we walked through was particularly desolate. If the camel team hadn't passed by, there wouldn't even be a person. In the vast desert, every inch of grass is hard to grow, and occasionally there are a few clumps of camel thorns, which are extremely conspicuous. I was surprised and shocked when I first saw it, but under such circumstances, I can't imagine how Zhang Qian overcame many difficulties to reach the Western Regions thousands of years ago. His pioneering and adventurous spirit is really great.
Riding a camel is actually quite tiring, and you need to stand up straight. Camels step on the desert with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and it is very unstable to sit on it. Sitting for an hour is painful, but it's still interesting.
Mingsha Mountain is really big, mountains are connected with mountains, and the desert is endless. Standing on the top of the mountain, I deeply realized the greatness of my motherland and the magic of nature. How small I am, there are many amazing scenery in China waiting for me to explore, and I will strive for all the beautiful things in the world.
The northwest man in the sand-sliding center is responsible for lifting the board slipped by tourists and asking the conductor for a card once, which may be finished in one day. Just like the leader of the camel team, they are working hard to serve the tourists. With their own efforts, they changed the beautiful memories of tourists in Mingsha Mountain.
Tip: We went to Mingsha Mountain for two mornings. After buying the tickets, we can sweep our faces and record our second visit to the park. There is no charge for entering the park many times in three days, which is convenient for everyone to watch the sunrise and sunset. Still very human. I think it takes a day for the crescent spring in Mingsha Mountain to be sufficient, especially for those with children. Have fun and climb it. In addition, it is best to climb the mountain with less things in the bag of Mingsha Mountain. The fine sand in Mingsha Mountain is too fine, which will unconsciously enter the bag of clothes and even fall into the cup. Now I still have a lot of Mingsha Shanshan embedded in my concealer. But the sand didn't touch the body, so it came down with a pat. Also, try not to wear contact lenses to Mingsha Mountain. It is often windy in scenic spots. Although the wind wrapped in fine sand is not strong, it is easy to get lost and it is very uncomfortable to wear contact lenses. Mingsha Mountain can be used for sand therapy, bathing, and barefoot stepping on sand is educational, but don't step on it after noon, because it is really hot!