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Speaking of the desert, the friends in the south must be very curious and strange. It is hot in summer, cold in winter, very beautiful, and unique to the western style. Let you fall in love with the place as soon as you come. Come and punch in! !
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Speaking of the desert, the friends in the south must be very curious and strange. It is hot in summer, cold in winter, very beautiful, and unique to the western style. Let you fall in love with the place as soon as you come. Come and punch in! !
We took the bus from Urumqi to Altakanas through Turpan and passed the Gurban Tonggut Desert, the third largest desert in Xinjiang. The desert edge was very desolate and almost worn by the Gobi Beach. There was also a salt lake on the way. From a distance, it looked like a mirror with white light. It reflects the sun's light....
China's second largest desert, said to be a desert, there are not many quicksands, more like a desert. There is no scenic spot, you can enter everywhere, off-road vehicles can drive in, it is said that you can find wild horses and wild donkeys in the depths, ordinary cars can't drive in.
The Gurbantonggut Desert is located in the south-central Junggar Basin, with the longest east-west about 412 kilometers, the widest north-south about 220 kilometers, and the area is about 4.88 million square kilometers. It is the second largest desert in China and the largest block in the Junggar Basin. The precipitation of the Gurbantonggut desert is more than that of the Taklamakan desert, the vegetation is well developed, the dunes stability is higher, and the north and south of the desert are winter pastures. Fixed and semi-fixed dunes account for 97% of the entire desert area, and are the largest fixed and semi-fixed desert in China. The overall geomorphological features of Gurbantonggut Desert are sandy desert, alpine and basin distribution, fixed, semi-fixed sand ridge and dune distribution.
South of the Lungu River, east of the Manas River is the main part of the northern Xinjiang, the Gurbantonggut Desert, and the rest are oasis in the lowlands in front of the mountains, but this is inaccurate, because there are still large Gobi beaches in the northern Xinjiang, We are not very sure about the specific scope of the Gobi Beach, but one thing is for sure, that the Gobi Beach must be the part of the transition from the oasis in front of the mountain to the Gurban Tongut Desert, and the famous Devil City is essentially Gobi.
The Gurbantonggut Desert, located in the center of the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, is the second largest desert in China, and is also the largest fixed, semi-fixed desert in China. The area is about 4.88 10,000 square kilometers, with an altitude of 300 ~ 600 meters, and more water sources. Unlike the Taklamakan Desert, the Gurbantonggut Desert is not a flowing sand mountain that is not grassy, but a fixed and semi-fixed dunes, where the sand dunes grow with shuttles, red willows and poplars, and the desert contains rich oil resources. Cainan Oilfield is the first million-ton automated desert-filled oil field invested in China. The vast desert oasis not only has various wonders and wonders, but also retains a large number of precious ancient "Silk Road" cultural relics. Including: Beitingdu Hufu Site (Hongqi Farm South), Dodunzi Grand Mosque, Bonfire Terrace, Maqiao Ancient City, Xiquan Smelting Site, 1○ Santuanchang Xinqucheng Site, 1○ Wutuanchangtoudaogou Ancient City Site, etc.
Cross the Junggar Basin and travel more than 700 kilometers from Chitaipei to Burqin. The Junggar Basin is the second largest inland basin in China. It is located between Altai Mountain and Tianshan Mountain. The basin is tilted westward, slightly higher in the north than in the south. There are several gaps in the Irzis Valley on the west side of the basin. The west wind current from the Atlantic Ocean enters from the west side gap. Bring precipitation to the basin and surrounding mountains. The Gurbantonggut Desert in the Junggar Basin is the second largest desert in China and the largest fixed and semi-fixed desert in China. Although called a desert, the Gurbantonggut desert is completely different from the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin. We can hardly see the tall and undulating sand mountains, and we can see low fixed and semi-fixed dunes. Compared with the sand dunes in traditional impressions, this fixed, semi-fixed desert has a small number of plants covering it, and is therefore an excellent winter pasture. Shuttle, spindle flower, absinthe, egrets, scorpion... These low-rise plants dotted between dunes, decorate the Gurbantonggut desert with vitality and uniqueness. Even in places without vegetation, the earth and stones of the Gobi desert hills are colorful, like a natural picture, showing people the five ways of "aquatic wood", "muk soil", "earth gold" and "gold water".