Xinjiang Travel Notes || Unexpected scenery along the way

Sailimu Lake🚗🚗🚗Ili, Yining

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, referred to as Ili or Ili Prefecture, is located in the Ili Valley in the north of the Tianshan Mountains in the west of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Ili is known as "Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall", "Central Asia Wet Island", and "Flower City". Yining City is the capital of Yili Prefecture.

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On your trip to Northern Xinjiang, there are surprises every day. Departing from Sailimu Lake to Yining City, we encountered Guozigou Bridge, lavender manor, peony fields...

NO.1 The bridge of life on the chasm

📍Guozigou Bridge

The video clip was taken by the co-pilot in the car while shaking around through the windshield.

Guozigou Bridge, located in Huocheng County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, is a choke point that passes through the steep gorges of the North Tianshan Mountains, and is also the only way to connect Ili and Bortala.

Guozigou Bridge is the first double-tower, double-cable steel truss cable-stayed bridge in China. One of the most beautiful bridges in the world For herders, its beauty is beyond imagination. The completion of Guozigou Bridge has greatly shortened the time for herders to move to other pastures. It not only connects the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also builds a bridge of life in the hearts of herdsmen.

[Route to the best viewing point of Guozigou Bridge]

Starting from the south gate of Sailimu Lake, pass through the Sailimu Lake Tunnel. Do not enter the tunnel or take the highway. You must choose the fork on the right side of the road and take the cement road into Guozigou. This path leads to the high places around Guozigou. You can better enjoy the forest farm scenery that is not inferior to the scenic spots, and enjoy the Guozigou Bridge, China's first highway steel truss cable-stayed bridge.

Even if the nomads in the world disappear, the nomads in Xinjiang will still be there, because the mountains are here. Once upon a time, herdsmen drove their cattle and sheep across the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. Many people and animals were swallowed up by snowstorms, but they still moved forward against the wind because they never learned to stop. The West Tianshan Mountains in Yili is the most difficult transition route in the world. It takes a month to climb the mountains with all the belongings, just to reach the winter nest safely before the arrival of winter. This has also become the most ardent expectation of the herdsmen. Now a bridge changes their destiny.

– "China National Geographic" Xinjiang Album

NO.2 Looking for a purple romance

📍Princess Jieyou Lavender Manor

The lavender flowers in Ili bloom in two seasons. The first season is from the end of May to mid-June and is harvested at the end of June. The second season is from the end of July to August and is harvested once in September.

Scenic spot tickets: 35 yuan/person; lavender ice cream: 10 yuan/piece

There is also the only lavender museum in the country in the scenic area, where you can buy and buy.

【The Story of Princess Jieyou】

Yili is the hometown of the "Wusun Kingdom", and Princess Jieyou was the marriage princess of the Western Han Dynasty. In order to consolidate the alliance with Wusun, fight against the Xiongnu, and maintain the marriage alliance between the Han Dynasty and Wusun, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty married the 20-year-old Jieyou to Wusun. Sun. Princess Jieyou experienced three marriages in Wusun, and finally returned to her homeland in her seventies. Today, the name of Princess Jieyou is still engraved in the historical memory of the Western Regions.

Floral fragrance

Xu Shaoyang – Lavender TV Soundtrack

The wind blows without direction

We hold the purple dream and choose to wait

The gentle sunshine fills us up

Memory is like the fragrance of flowers

Floral fragrance

PURPLE

Lavender has four colors and four flower languages.

Purple lavender means: waiting for the miracle of love;

Blue lavender means: heart-to-heart love;

White lavender means: you can see miracles just by breathing hard;

Pink lavender is: waiting for you to love me, first love.

Purple is the original lavender, the purest and most ancient flower language.

ROMANTIC

NO.3 [Peony Flower Field]

📍Ili Valley

Look at peonies during the Grain Rain season and peonies during the Beginning of Summer.

This unknown peony field is truly amazing. The endless red peony root stretches as far as the eye can see toward the edge of the snow-capped mountains.

She made this land gentle;We stayed here for a long time.

The flower language of peony is beautiful, reluctant, inseparable, and sincere. In ancient times, when men and women interacted, peony was given to each other to express their love or farewell, so it was also called "Jianlicao". Today, peony has become the flower of love in China.

PS: Sending peony is the most advanced expression.

Legend has it that a long time ago, a plague broke out among the people. The Flower God couldn't bear the people to be in such dire straits, so he stole the Queen Mother's elixir and came down to earth to save people. The Flower God turned the elixir into herbs such as peony and wood. Peony, peony, and peony are both called medicine until now.