Lanzhou - Zhangye - Jiayuguan - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center - Ejina Banner Populus euphratica Scenic Area.
About 1,200 kilometers, five days.
The Yellow River brings the comfort of life to the Northwest Plateau. Starting from Lanzhou and heading west along the ancient Silk Road, you will see the majestic Great Wall, cultural relics everywhere, mysterious mountains and rivers, and the tenacity The indomitable Populus euphratica forest tells the story of the vast vicissitudes and beauty of the Northwest.
Lanzhou • Lanzhou Battle Memorial Hall
Lanzhou Battle Memorial Hall is located in Qilihe District. It was built to commemorate the martyrs who died in the battle to liberate Lanzhou in August 1949.
Built in 1952, the exhibition hall consists of seven parts: the prologue hall, playing the prelude to the westward march, implementing a thousand-mile pursuit, bloodying the top of Nanshan Mountain, gathering and annihilating the main force of Qingma, celebrating the liberation of the northwest, and concluding remarks, recreating the Chinese people's The First Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, led by Commander Peng Dehuai, liberated the northwest and marched into Xinjiang.
Lanzhou University is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education. It was founded in 1909 as Gansu School of Law and Politics. In 1928, it was expanded to Lanzhou Sun Yat-sen University.
In 1949, President Xin Shuzhi led Lanzhou University to welcome the liberation of Lanzhou, and Lanzhou University completely returned to the hands of New China. Later, by the order of the Ministry of Education of the People's Government, National Lanzhou University was renamed Lanzhou University, which is still in use today.
After the founding of New China, during the adjustment of colleges and universities, it was identified as one of the 14 comprehensive universities in the country. In 1954, Lanzhou University began graduate education.
The museum is located in Qilihe District. It was built in 1956 and has a collection of more than 350,000 historical relics, modern cultural relics, ethnic cultural relics, and paleontological fossils and specimens.
The museum is in the shape of a "mountain" in plan, with five floors in the middle, three floors on the two wings, an exhibition hall at the back, and a circular lecture hall at the end. The building was designed by Soviet experts and has a unique style.
There are permanent exhibition halls for "Gansu Painted Pottery", "Gansu Silk Road Civilization" and "Gansu Paleontological Fossils". The famous horse trampling on flying swallows is hidden inside.
The Yellow River passes through Lanzhou City, the capital of Gansu Province. Under the Baita Mountain in the north of Lanzhou City, an iron bridge that does not look dangerous or unusual is actually the first truly modern bridge erected on the Yellow River. The bridge is known as "the first bridge on the Yellow River in the world". The original name was "Lanzhou Yellow River Iron Bridge", but was later changed to "Zhongshan Bridge" in memory of Sun Yat-sen.
Beginning in 1954, New China carried out many renovations and reinforcements on the iron bridge, raising the bridge body by 1.2 meters and adding five arc-shaped steel arch beams, making this ancient iron bridge not only strong and durable, but also It is also majestic and magnificent.
Zhangye Colorful Danxia is the most typical Danxia landform developed in the arid areas of northern my country. It is the only highly complex area of Danxia landform and colorful hilly landscape in China. It is colorful and highly ornamental. The largest area in the country, it is majestic, dangerous, strange, secluded and beautiful.
It is now a national 5A tourist attraction and a world geopark, with high tourist value and geological research value.
Jiayuguan is located 5 kilometers west of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province. It was the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty and was also the transportation hub of the ancient "Silk Road".
It was first built in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1372). After 168 years of construction, it has become the most spectacular Guancheng along the Great Wall.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (formerly the 20th Base of the General Armament Department), also known as "Dongfeng Space City", is the earliest and largest comprehensive missile and satellite launch center in China. It is also the center of China's scientific satellite and technology One of the launch test bases for testing satellites and launch vehicles, it is now affiliated with the Strategic Support Force.
It has been selected as one of the "First Batch of China's Top Ten Science and Technology Tourism Bases" by the National Tourism Administration and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has been selected into the "China Industrial Heritage Protection List". The Aerospace City has attractions such as the History Museum, Hu Yanglin Camping Park, and the Sword Heroes Altar.
Populus euphratica tourist attraction is located in Ejina Banner, Alxa League, at the westernmost end of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ejina Banner currently has 380,000 acres of Populus euphratica forest, which is one of the only three remaining Populus euphratica forest areas in the world.
Populus euphratica tourist attraction is the hometown of Populus euphratica and the abode of the desert. It has been listed as a world geological park and a national geological park in China...Lianying Forest, Badain Jaran Desert, Welcome Populus euphratica, Red Willow Sea, Tawang Mansion, etc. The landscape is a paradise for photography lovers.
Day 1: Depart from Lanzhou at 8 a.m. and arrive in Zhangye at about 2 p.m. Overnight in Zhangye.
Day 2: Depart in the morning and go to Jiayuguan. You can arrive in the morning and then visit various scenic spots such as the Great Wall. Overnight in Jiayuguan.
Day 3: Depart for Aerospace City in the morning and drive to Ejina at 6pm. Overnight in Ejina.
Day 4: Visit various Populus euphratica forest attractions in Ejina. You can visit the local specialty snack street and stay overnight in Ejina.
Day 5: After breakfast, return to Lanzhou.
Self-driving tips
1. Lanzhou Beef Ramen: There are historical records that Lanzhou Beef Ramen evolved from the old beef noodle soup in a small car. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1799), Ma Liuqi of the Dongxiang ethnic group learned from Chen Weijing in Qinghua, Huaiqing Prefecture, Henan (now Boai Qinghua Town, Jiaozuo, Henan) and made a cart of beef noodle soup and brought it to Lanzhou.
2. Thousand-layer beef cake: It is a triangular cake stuffed with beef, which evolved from the ancient spring cake stuffed with vegetables. As described in a Qing Dynasty poem, "Spoon soup cakes with spring darkness, spring comes to the world."
3. Lanzhou steamed buns: Lanzhou's mutton steamed buns are made by cutting the cooked mutton into large pieces, adding vermicelli and garlic sprouts. , coriander, steamed buns, topped with mutton soup, and served with a kind of local fermented dough bread from Lanzhou, it is ready to eat and has the original flavor.
