Silk road self-driving
The Silk Road is an overland commercial and trade channel connecting China and the hinterland of Europe. It was formed in the 2nd century BC to 1 century A.D. and remained in use until16th century. It is the main road of economic, political and cultural exchanges between East and West.
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D 1: Xi 'an
Xi An 'an Tour Datang West City Museum, Bell and Drum Tower Square, and landmark buildings in Xi 'an City; Huimin snack street, free to taste Xi 'an's time-honored specialty snacks: beef and mutton steamed buns, cold rice noodles, meat buns and so on.
D2: Shaanxi History Museum-Grand Jeju-Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum.
Visit 1 13000 exquisite cultural relics unearthed in Shaanxi, vividly and systematically display 1 15000 years ago to 1840, visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda Tang Cultural Square, enjoy the largest waterscape music fountain square in Asia, and then take a bus to Lintong to visit the world after lunch.
Visit the earliest, most complete, highest-grade and best-made bronze wares in China-Pits 1, 2 and 3 of Terracotta Warriors and Horses: Tongche Horse Exhibition Hall; Visit Qin Shihuang Mausoleum and Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Ruins Park.
D3: Xi 'an-Tianshui (350km from Xi 'an to Tianshui).
Go to Famen Temple, the cultural scenic spot of Sakyamuni Buddha, where cultural relics gather, enjoy the folding stupa of 148 meters, pay tribute to the unique phalanx relics of the Buddha, and reproduce the splendid Buddhist style in the prosperous times. Then, take a bus to Tianshui and enjoy the natural scenery along the way!
D4: Maijishan-Fuxi Temple
Going to Maijishan Grottoes is known as the Oriental Sculpture Museum. Maijishan is named after the mountain is like a mound where farmers grow wheat, surrounded by trees, quiet environment and beautiful scenery. It is the best place among many grottoes in China.
Among them are seven buddha Pavilion, Wanfo Cave, Niuertang and Fuling. Are the most famous). Then, visit Fuxi Temple, the first ancestral temple in China, which is the largest and most well-preserved Ming Dynasty building complex in China, in memory of Fu, one of the ancient "Huang San".
D5: Tianshui-Lanzhou (Tianshui-Lanzhou one-way 3 10km)
Tianshui took a bus to Lanzhou and visited the Gansu Provincial Museum. This is a comprehensive museum. From Cretaceous fossil specimens to Paleolithic and Neolithic painted pottery cultures; Bronzes and ceramic jades of Silk Road civilization from Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Han and Tang Dynasties; Including Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing porcelain, wood carving, silk, painting and so on.
0 10- 10, Lanzhou took a bus to Wuwei to visit Leitai Han Tomb. 1969, local farmers found a large masonry tomb in the late Eastern Han Dynasty under the old pagoda tree in Leitai. Unearthed tourist signs of China, national treasures, flying swallows riding horses and 99 bronze chariots and horses figurines (rituals of chariots and horses warriors) constitute a well-equipped bronze chariot cavalry phalanx in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is well-known at home and abroad.
Then visit the Confucian Temple in Wuwei, also known as Confucius Temple and Confucius Temple, which is the largest Confucius Temple in northwest China and was built to worship Confucius, a great thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period. Known as the "crown of studying in northwest China" in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is a holy place for Liangzhou literati to worship Confucius, the largest and most well-preserved Confucius temple in northwest China, and one of the three largest Confucius temples in China.
D6: Lanzhou-Wuwei (Lanzhou-Wuwei one-way 280 kilometers)
Wuwei took a bus to Zhangye and visited Zhangye's colorful Danxia. Danxia landform was formed 6 million years ago, located in Linze and Sunan counties of Zhangye City, covering an area of about 5 10 square kilometers.
It is the only compound area of Danxia landform and colorful hilly landscape in China, and it has been rated as one of the seven most beautiful Danxia landforms in China by chinese national geography magazine.
From 0 10 to 10 10, Zhang Qian visited Jiayuguan Tower, which was the westernmost starting point of Wan Li Great Wall in Ming Dynasty, an important military fortress on the Great Wall Line, the first pass in Hexi and the only pass on the ancient Silk Road. as everyone knows
D7: Wuwei-Zhangye (240 kilometers one way from Wuwei to Zhangye)
Jiayuguan went to Dunhuang to visit the desert wonder Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring. Riding a camel, you can enjoy the magical beauty of sand and spring water. The sand does not cover the spring, the spring does not dry up, and the charm of sand skiing or skydiving is endless.
D8: Zhangye-Jiayuguan (260 kilometers one way)
Go to Yangguan, which is the throat of ancient land transportation in China, and also the only way of the Southern Silk Road. Located near the antique beach in the southwest of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. The pass of the Western Han Dynasty was named because it was located in the south of Yumen Pass.
Yumenguan was the gateway of transportation in the western regions at that time. After the tour, visit Yumen Pass: Yumen Pass, also known as Pan Xiaofang, is located on a sand dune 90 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang City. Guancheng, square and well-preserved, is the throat of the Silk Road leading to the North Road.
Visiting Ya Dan Ghost Town: Ya Dan Uyghur language, which means mounds with steep walls, is a wind erosion landform in arid areas. Dunhuang people are commonly known as "ghost towns", hence the name "Ya Dan ghost town".
This Ya Dan landform community far exceeds the scale and shape defined in the dictionary, and its individual and overall scale and peculiar shape are rare in the world. You can enjoy the scenery along the way. After the tour, stay in the hotel and have a rest!
D9: Jiayuguan-Dunhuang (Jiayuguan-Dunhuang one-way 370km)
After breakfast, visit the Mogao Grottoes, a world-famous treasure house of cultural heritage and Buddhist art, which was built in Fujian two years before Qin Dynasty (AD 366). It has 492 caves, more than 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 2,000 colorful statues. It is an art hall integrating ancient buildings, sculptures and murals, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Cave.
Jiuse Gannan, self-driving on Locke Road.
Zuirenyan Road, which won the gold medal of the Central Humanities Line with the highest number of votes in the 20 15 self-driving route selection, is listed as one of the 36 self-driving routes in China. It's the road that makes Gary Locke, the first explorer in northwest China, linger, and it's the road that amazes today's travelers. It is the most beautiful self-driving route in the world.
From cooperation to Zhuoni, along the provincial highway S306 100 km is a world-class landscape, with rolling grasslands, quiet temples and quiet snow-capped mountains. The picturesque scenery is awesome. Especially the road is full of fun, cattle and sheep cross, and there is no danger. This is a golden route for experienced travelers to linger.
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D 10: Yangguan-Yumenguan-Ya Dan (90km from Dunhuang to Yumenguan)
Arrived in Lanzhou and visited Zhongshan Railway Bridge, which is known as the first bridge of the Yellow River in the world. At present, the most beautiful sculpture of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, is the mother of the Yellow River. Later, I visited the ancient water car park, Lanzhou Waterwheel, also known as "Crown Car", "Rollover Car", "Irrigation Car" and "Tiger Car", which originated in the Ming Dynasty.
D 1 1: Mogao grottoes
Go to Xiahe to visit Labrang Temple, one of the six major temples of Tibetan Buddhism. Buleng Temple is one of the six major temples of Tibetan Buddhism and the largest temple in Gan Qing. Its magnificent hall, simple and tidy monk's house, lamas coming and going, dressed in humanistic robes, devout Tibetans walk around the prayer wheel and read scriptures.
Let you stay in the Buddhist country and feel the profoundness of Tibetan Buddhism. After that, I visited the beautiful grassland in Sang Ke aided by King Gelsall, a legendary Tibetan hero, and rode a whip to enjoy the beautiful grassland, intending to cooperate.
D 1: Lanzhou
Take the road of Locke again! Along the way, visit one of Amdo's famous Tibetan Buddhist temples, the magnificent Phantom Eight Buddha Pavilion, which has nine floors. It is dedicated to the founders of various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, mainly Mirariba and his disciples. Buddha statues, bodhisattvas, protectors and other Buddha statues 1720, mainly King Kong.
The scenery of Nida fishing ditch in Niba village for a hundred years makes you feel the beauty of tranquility. After a hundred years of vicissitudes, Niba Tibetan Village still retains a strong religious atmosphere. Its architectural format is unique and well preserved, and its scale and momentum are quite spectacular. Then cross the mountain and go to the natural stone city, Xanadu Zhagana!
D2: Lanzhou-Xiahe-Labrang Temple
After breakfast, enjoy the morning light in Zagana. Zagana is a smoky, ancient and simple pedal house, surrounded by towering stone mountains and towering stone forests in Upper Pa.
Zhaga, which means Shimen in Tibetan, originally means "in a stone box" and is a completely natural "stone city". In 2006, it was approved as a provincial geological park, and in 2009, it was named "Top Ten Unpopular Peaks" by chinese national geography. It is the location chosen by many photographers.
D3: The Road of Locke
Drive to Huahu Lake. Huahu Lake is located next to National Highway 2 13 between Zoige, Sichuan and langmusi, Gansu. It is a natural sea on the grassland of Garba. Jedaias is the second largest grassland in China after Hulunbeier grassland, with an altitude of 3,468 meters.
The classic time of Huahu Lake is May and June. The lake is colorful, like a cloud, and it is full of flowers as gorgeous as monsters. This plant looks unremarkable. In August, the rain was abundant, and the pure blue lake was dyed into a light lotus color, deep and shallow, like a touch of red when a girl was homesick. After the tour, go to langmusi!
D4: Zagana in the morning
After that, I visited langmusi, felt the solemn Buddhist atmosphere of "repairing white lotus to leave the continent" and overlooked the mysterious and sacred celestial burial platform. The birthplace of langmusi is langmusi Grand Canyon in Sichuan, where there are Langmu Cave, Tiger Cave and the source of Bailong River. Let's feel the beauty of this paradise together! After the tour, return to Lanzhou!
Walk around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and drive through the Hexi Corridor.
Understanding the Silk Road with your heart is like crossing the Millennium, standing in the Hexi Corridor and feeling the desolation and heroism of history, crossing the deep starry sky and the vast grassland, turning into a breeze and flying to your side, hoping to see you again in your lifetime;
In July, snow flies, flowers bloom like carpets, eagles fly and cranes hum, which is mysterious. Looking at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Hexi Corridor, we galloped across the desert and galloped on the grassland under the blue sky and white clouds.
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D5: Zhagana 105km Huahu 37km langmusi.
After breakfast, take a bus to the famous Tibetan Buddhist temple, the birthplace of Zong Kaba, the guru of Gelug Sect, and enjoy the Eight Pagodas of Ruyi, Jinwa Hall and the three wonders of Buddhist art: murals, pile embroidery and butter carving.
Then take a bus to Qinghai Lake, passing through Sun Moon Mountain, Feng Shui Ridge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Loess Plateau, and Daotang River, which is said to be the largest inland saltwater lake in China. The end of the lake is connected with the sky, and the water and the sky are the same. Visitors can visit Qinghai Lake by boat here and feel the beauty of plateau lakes.
D6: 390km, langmusi
After breakfast, take a bus to Chaka Salt Lake, where the water meets the sky, and you can't tell where the sky is and where the water is. It is called the mirror of China's sky. After the tour, take a bus to Dachaidan.
D 1: 40km Ta 'er Temple in Xining 150km Qinghai Lake.
After breakfast, take a bus to Dunhuang. Today is a big crossroads. Mainly to appreciate the vast desert Gobi scenery in Qaidam basin, which makes people feel deeply. Due to the sparse population along the way, it is difficult to supply. It is recommended to prepare enough drinking water and dry food.
After arriving in Dunhuang, although there is no danger of climbing Mount Hua, it is very difficult to climb Mount Tai. Go back half a step to Mingsha Mountain and visit the world's largest desert spring-Crescent Spring. Known as "surrounded by sand mountains and silver mountains, a pool of clear water and green ripples", the beautiful crescent spring.
D2: Qinghai Lake 150km Chaka 400km Dachaidan
After breakfast, go to the east foot of Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang. On that long plank road, large and small grottoes are connected in twists and turns. The walls of the grottoes are covered with murals and colored sculptures related to Buddhism, and the solemn and dignified Buddha shadows are flying freely. They are solemn and mysterious, making people stop.
Here, it is one of the four largest grottoes in China and the largest Buddhist art treasure house in the world-Mogao Grottoes. After the tour, take a bus to Jiayuguan and stay in the hotel to rest!
0 10- 10 After breakfast, visit Jiayuguan Tower at the western end of Wan Li Great Wall, and then take a bus to Zhangye. In the afternoon, you can visit the Danxia landform in Zhangye, which was formed 6 million years ago. Located in Linze County and Sunan County of Zhangye City, covering an area of 565,438+00 square kilometers. It is the only compound area of Danxia landform and colorful hilly landscape in China, and it has been rated as one of the seven most beautiful Danxia landforms in China by chinese national geography magazine.
D3: Dachaidan 320km Dunhuang-Mingsha Mountain/Crescent Spring
Visit Zhangye Buddhist Temple. Located in the southwest corner of Zhangye City, Gansu Province, the Great Buddha Temple is an important scenic spot.
The scenic spots open to the outside world include the Great Buddha Temple built in Xixia, the Wanshou Pagoda in Sui Dynasty, the Thousand Buddha Pagoda in Tomi in Ming Dynasty, the Bell and Drum Tower and the Shaanxi Guild Hall in Qing Dynasty. It is very famous in the northwest of China. After the tour, go to Lanzhou to stay in the hotel. In the evening, you can go to the local snack night market and taste the special food!
D4: Jiayuguan, 370km away from Mogao Grottoes.
Visiting Zhongshan Railway Bridge by car is known as' the first bridge of the Yellow River in the world'. The possible self-funded projects in the scenic spot are: sheepskin raft 80 yuan/person; At present, the most beautiful sculpture of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, is the mother of the Yellow River. After that, I visited the ancient water parking lot. The waterwheels in Lanzhou, also known as Crown Cars, Dumpers, Irrigation Cars and Tiger Cars, originated in the Ming Dynasty.
Self-driving on Qiu Jin Landscape Avenue
Someone once said: if you love someone, take him to see the autumn in Ejina, because it is a paradise with beautiful scenery; If you hate someone, take him to see the spring in Ejina, because it is hell. No one can imagine that this is the birthplace of sandstorms in China, and sometimes heaven and hell are only one step away.
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D5: Jiayuguan 260km Zhangye
Lanzhou took a bus to the summer Tara Prairie, one of the six most beautiful grasslands in China, and enjoyed the grassland scenery along the way. Then go to Shandan Royal Racecourse, which is the largest and oldest racetrack in the world at present.
Founded in BC 12 1 year by Huo Qubing, an ancient general of the Western Han Dynasty, it has been 2 130 years, and it is also the oldest single organization in the world today. In the afternoon, I rode a whip in the military horse farm. Go to Huaixi Town Villa at night and have a rest on the east mountain!
D6: 500km Lanzhou, Zhangye Buddhist Temple
Take a bus to colorful Danxia in Zhangye, which is one of the areas with the largest and best landform development and the richest landform forms in China. It is a typical representative of colorful Danxia in China, with high scientific research and tourism appreciation value.
From June 5438 to 10, 2005, China Geographic Magazine and 34 national media jointly held the selection of "The Most Beautiful Place in China" and was selected as one of the "Seven Most Beautiful Danxia in China". After the tour, stay in Zhangye!
D7: Hundred Miles Yellow River Style Line
Zhang Ye set out for the most beautiful Populus euphratica forest in China. Populus euphratica forest in Hu Yangshu has turned yellow in October. Under the blue sky, it is as bright as the sun in the deserted desert, and the golden Populus euphratica is reflected on the calm lake, just like an oil painting! After the tour, drive to Ejina Banner to check in!
D 1: Huaixi Town, 420km Shandan Military Horse Farm, 5km Lanzhou.
Visit the Populus euphratica forest in Ejina banner all day, where the sky is high and the clouds are light, the grass is dancing wildly, and everything is wonderful. The Heihe River was cut off and Juyanhai dried up, leaving only 300,000 mu of Populus euphratica forest with more than 700,000 mu. Perhaps it is better to lament the departure of Populus euphratica than to lament the human itself. Saving Populus euphratica is saving human's own home.
D2: Huaixi Town 195km Zhangye Danxia
Get up early and go to Juyanhai, a strange lake. Juyan is Xixia language, which means "flowing desert". Due to the shrinking of the lake, the lake is divided into two lakes. The name of the West Lake is Gashun Noor, also known as Gashun Lake. Mongolian means "bitter sea", that is, Xijuyanhai.
After the tour, go to Heicheng, Guailin, an ancient city buried by quicksand, located in the Ejina River basin in the west of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is 30km southeast of Dalam Kebu in Ejina Banner and about10km away from Nalin River.
The city has been swallowed up by quicksand. The Tangut in the ancient capital city of Xixia Kingdom is called "Iqinai Road", and the Tangut means "Blackwater City".
D3: Ejina Banner with 260km and 340km of Populus euphratica forest in Jinta, Zhangye.
Depart from Ejina Banner in the morning and go to Zhangye to enjoy the Gobi scenery along the way!
D4: Populus euphratica forest in Ejina Banner
Zhang Ye leaves for Jinchang in the morning and enjoys the Gobi scenery along the way! After arriving in Jinchang, visit the Bauhinia Sea in Jinchang. In Jinchang in summer, purple lavender, verbena and borage complement each other with golden rape, sunflower and marigold.
There are also beautiful tulips, corn poppy, peony and roses. The whole city seems to be a sea of flowers, full of romantic atmosphere, which gives Nidu a new business card of "Flower City in the West".
D5: Juyanhai-Black City-Strange Forest
Get up early, go to Tengger Desert, surf, corrupt and have a picnic, where you can fully feel that "the desert is lonely".