After leaving Hemu Village, Long Yi and Smecta's hiking route was from the Altay region through the Tacheng area, to Karamay, and finally repaired in Yining, Ili Prefecture, I don't know how many small villages they passed, they stopped and stopped, spent more than a month, and left six diaries, from the Altai Mountains to the Tianshan Mountains, from overlooking the mountains to walking through the undulating mountains. I got to know the red willow, poplar, and the Mongolian Aobao, and saw the sheep that were colored and marked by the shepherds, the horses and yaks, the desert and saline-alkali land that were partially greened under the efforts of the Construction Corps for many years, and the gray-black stone mountains where no grass grows.

The history of the distant nomadic land is too long to book, and the ambitions of Genghis Khan's expedition to the west have been submerged in the long river of history, and a quiet place often makes Long Yi feel that at the moment of nature, even in front of a mountain, a piece of snow, a tree, a grain of sand, and a grass, human beings are too small, and perhaps when human beings have not evolved to walk upright, everything in nature has been like that, and it seems that it has never changed for millions of years.

Standing on this endless green carpet-like grassland, seeing the horses running, the sheep resting on the hillock, and the Hazakh girl boiling water and cooking outside the yurt, that kind of scenery was something Long Yi had never seen before, and he was deeply attracted by it. Long Yi wrote in his diary: No matter whether I will come here again in the future, but the Ili of Xinjiang will never be erased from my heart. At last our passion burned in Nalati, and at that moment we were like wild horses without the reins, and suddenly we galloped across the grassland, completely unleashing the latent wildness in our bodies. This must be the joy that comes from the heart when man and nature embrace each other purely, right? I never thought that the two of us were still childlike......

Yining, the most beautiful Arabian style building, but in addition to the beautiful scenery of the exotic style of the new district, more can impress Long Yi, I still have the warmth of returning home! The quiet environment and enthusiastic people naturally make Long Yi feel warm and soft and very comfortable, and from the moment he stayed in Yining Holiday Hotel, there seemed to be a warm current quietly flowing into Long Yi's heart, not bad! It is full of intoxicating warmth, as if at home.

Saturday, June 11, sunny

After coming out of Yining, on the first day of chartered bus to Kuqa County in Aksu Prefecture, it was already dark, so I had to find a place to stay.

The next day, went to the Wensu Grand Canyon, walked into the Grand Canyon, the two sides of the canyon were eroded by the wind and the rain, forming a lot of magical and solemn and breathtaking magical scenery The mountain wall rock layers in the Wensu Grand Canyon Canyon are clearly distributed, the folds formed by extrusion, the curved lines are very clear, the fractured rocks are sandwiched in the mountain wall rock formations, after hundreds of millions of years of wind and rain erosion, the cliffs are towering, the strange peaks stand, the forms are different, the craggy and weird, the colors are intense, the postures are varied, and the peculiar landscape of the colors is varied.

Staying in Wensu County at night, Aksu is really a paradise of fruits! The streets are full of fruits, peaches, grapes, apricots, mulberries, walnuts, strawberries, plums, nectarines, figs, and watermelons, and many others have never been seen before, and I don't know what they are. As for the most famous Aksu rock candy apples, Aksu walnuts are not yet ripe, but there are last year's Aksu thin-skinned walnuts and red dates in the dried fruit store, Smecta and I bought two boxes of walnuts, the skin is very thin and cracks with a gentle pinch of hands or a gentle bite with teeth, unlike our southern thick-skinned walnuts to be hammered, the meat has no moisture, and the taste is not covered.

When I arrived in Kashgar it was afternoon, we chartered the car along Yingbin Avenue into the city, there are many domed houses on both sides of the road, it seems to belong to the local style, comparatively speaking, Kashgar is a good city, unlike Kuqa, Wensu such a small county, there are no people, Kashgar can be said to have been very modern, such a beautiful city along the way is rare, and I don't know how the driver walks, and finally stopped in a lively and extraordinary place that looks like a bazaar, the traffic is somewhat congested, the driver told us that we have arrived in Kashgar, We had to get out of the car.

I took the backpack, only to find that nearly 1,000 people gathered on the other side of the road, it seemed to be some kind of grand event, the local people helped the old and the young, prepared a small blanket to spread on the ground, took off their shoes, and reverently knelt on the blanket to worship on the spot. Most of the locals wear flower hats, and I have never seen such a majestic scene, even if I have attended many commercial performances by tens of thousands of people, but I am deeply shocked in my heart, and it needs to be faith!

Smecta and I just watched quietly, without saying a word, after watching for a few minutes, we left, and walked in the direction of the people's worship, about a kilometer or so, to a city gate with the ancient city of Kashgar written on it, the city gate seems to be made of mud, majestic but somewhat unique. Inside the gates it looks like a city, all in the same style, built of mud and built on a mountain, as if telling a long history. Smecta told me that it was a high-platform dwelling, and I said that you know a lot, and Smecta said that there is an introduction on the map.

We don't know whether to charge tickets or not, go directly to the inside, the whole old city is built and the same as the labyrinth, the alleys and alleys extending in all directions, there are exits everywhere, it seems that it is inconvenient to charge tickets for a reason, there is a small trick to prevent getting lost here, go to the Gaotai houses along the floor tiles will not enter the dead end, if there is a branch road without paving the floor tiles, it means that it is a dead end inside, which is also the password of the ancient Gaotai dwellings.

Take a stroll, pat the children, look at the architectural style, the old artists are hand-making pottery, and there are many restaurants, and there are green smoke barbecue meat at the door, and some people are making naan. I was lucky enough to use the sweets to mingle with the local kids, and a little boy pulled me to his house as I said goodbye. The boy's house is in an alley, with two closed doors, and the house is divided into three floors, warm and grandiose, too different from the shabby appearance. Came to the child's house as a guest, his house is very beautiful, I think it is rude to take pictures of other people's houses casually, the light was also relatively dim at that time, I basically used to watch, you officials have no eyes.

Gaotai Folk House, half of the houses here have been demolished, and many of the remaining residents have moved out, and I don't know how long they will be preserved.

The street building of the Gaotai dwelling, layer by layer, there is no place, just find a place to build in the middle of the street, this is the inevitable population growth, there are also digging down, but in the north of Xinjiang.

After looking at it for an afternoon, the Gaotai dwellings under the sunset have a sense of vicissitudes of history. After looking around, I found that there was an inn, so I stayed......

Today in Kashgar walked around, went to the largest mosque in southern Xinjiang, the worship of believers and tourists bustling, Ati Kah is the best mosque between the balance between the rules and regulations and the opening to the outside world, compared to those mosques with deep locked doors, there is a window to understand MSL. The temple gate tower has a strong national style and religious color, a gate in the middle, the top of the door resembles a lotus petal circle, the whole tower is square, there are columnar decorations on both sides, the appearance of the Ati Kah Mosque is yellow, compared to its fame, its appearance is not so spectacular. It is said to have a history of five to six hundred years, and the number of believers who worship there every day reaches 3,000.

The square at the entrance was very large, and few people were there in the morning, but it was very lively around ten o'clock. Once inside, it's so beautiful, it's very big, and it's so open that it is said that people flock to it when you go to worship. The interior is decorated in green, which represents peace.

The most visible thing about the empty hall is the carved columns, a typical MSL style building, and the particularly beautiful thing is the green windows inside, all of which are green carvings, which are very special. There were only a few people in the empty hall who were thinking on that wall, and there were some believers who were looking at the wall, reading the Qur'an. The main hall is very high, the most eye-catching is the ceiling fan, which is very dense, it is hot in summer, and there are many people. There are also European-style crystal chandeliers, rows of particularly beautiful, reciting scriptures, leading believers to come and chant.

There is a large courtyard in the Mosque of Ati Kah, like a garden, there are lush trees on both sides of the road, but it seems that no one has been cleaning it for a long time, the yard is full of fallen leaves, it seems that few people go in, and there are some flowers and plants planted next to it, which grows quite luxuriantly.

The tomb of Xiangfei, which is said to bury Princess Xiangfei, is in the form of a palace. Mainly famous and well protected because of the burial of the Qing Emperor's Xiangfei, it was found that the tomb of Xiangfei was not placed in the middle of the mausoleum, but in the northeast corner, but it was very eye-catching because it was wrapped in blue glass bricks and covered with various patterns of floral cloth. On the way from the entrance of the scenic spot to the mausoleum, you can see two exquisite MSL worship halls, large and small, in which people sit and pray. Outside the mausoleum, there is a large family cemetery, all of which are placed on the ground and facing the same direction, which is a spectacular scene.

Among the more than 40 concubines of the Qianlong Emperor, it can be said that everyone knows the Xiangfei concubine, after returning to the East Lake Park from Banchao Park, looking at the peculiar saddle-shaped Kashgar Urban Planning Hall in the East Lake, I deeply like this small city, stewed sheep's head and sheep's trotters, sac pit meat, large pieces of mutton, roast buns, roast mutton, and countless large and small bazaars (bazaars), and the artists who play Rewapu on the side of the road are full of exotic customs and make people forget to return......

Tomorrow we will go to Stone Town, a very strategic castle on the ancient "Silk Road".

From Jiayuguan to Kashgar, in three months, Smecta and I have traveled all the way through thousands of mountains and rivers, and we are independent and interdependent. Nothing is more convincing than time, because time can change everything. The best trip is to be in a strange place and find a long-lost emotion.

Unhappiness is often given by outsiders, but happiness is found by yourself. If you make yourself unhappy, or often let yourself be entangled in trivial matters, it can only prove that you treat yourself as an outsider and are not good enough for yourself. No one can save you from this. You don't have to promise forever, as long as you love me day after day, maybe we will miss a lot of people, but we have to find someone in the end, find ourselves, and live a lifetime.

It seems that people can't say that Kashgar can't be counted as Xinjiang, it's true!