"A card, a machine, a backpack", today's travel is so simple. As long as you are for the line of unattached tour of indulgence to play happy, you can give up the pain of self-driving waiting for the idle, say go, lift the hand is the car. However, before going out of the line travel plan is essential, yo, with the line travel plan, your destination and goal is very clear, including each visit to the food and beverage, lodging, transportation, scenic spots, tickets and related contact information, etc., etc., you have to figure out and to note. A simple trip, although there is no need to get like the map that rigid, but at least there must be a road in mind. The heart has the road, and then unfamiliar journey you will not because of the current events and time-consuming, do not understand the line of market and labor life hurt money blind or be slaughtered. This is not, July 18th at dusk, when our line in Ningxia Zhongwei Railway Station off out of the ticket gate, preferential reservation cab has been waiting in the square in front of the station. At this time, the setting sun is spreading her gorgeous evening sun, the vast sky is as blue as a wash, the boundless earth is orange-red, two cab drivers to professional smile to welcome our arrival. The scene in front of us let us nearly 21 hours of resounding labor, instantly disappeared. The city's lush street trees, spacious and clean streets and the yellow, green, gray and red mosque dome buildings, as well as the red flowers and green grass in the isolation zone, all by the orange-red sunset, smearing a layer of ethereal mist, so that people feel very friendly and happy.

When making travel arrangements, I learned from the information that Zhongwei City in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region introduced a municipal plan in 2010 to create a beautiful Zhongwei, in which the per capita area of public **** green space will reach 26.04 square meters, and the rate of green space in the urban area will reach 39.02 percent. This in the average annual precipitation of only 188.4 mm, while the average annual evaporation reached 1913.8 mm in Zhongwei City, to achieve this goal, the degree of difficulty can be imagined. However, when we checked into the hotel after putting down the luggage, wandering in the streets and alleys of Zhongwei City, only to see the major institutions, enterprises, schools, etc., behind the door, everywhere there are spacious green space, flowers and tall red pines, ginkgo and other woods. Plus commercial streets, neat and lush cedar forest stands on both sides of a wide avenue, the street facade decoration, most of the dome-shaped skeleton, between the green, yellow and white tones of whitewash. Being in the middle of the street has a kind of exotic mystery, and this mysterious and unfamiliar feeling and let a person very much into it.

The street is very clean, where the ground and green belts, did not see a piece of paper, a chip, even the shell of the garbage cans can not see a trace of dirty stains. Such a degree of cleanliness of the city, and my memory of the "corner on the piss back over the firecracker" of the Northwestern people's habits, compared to a public **** hygiene of the great revolution.

Thinking back to the seventies when I first walked into the northwest towns and cities of my impression, the scene in front of me made me feel a lot of emotions. When I on the topic of city appearance and the hotel bar beauty chat, beauty said: Zhongwei City and today's beautiful, one is from the government's planning and investment, the second is from self-discipline and strong management measures. Yes, to completely change any disease habits, without these two weapons how easy?

According to the original plan, was originally in the city of Zhongwei accommodation for one night, because the city of Zhongwei so neat and beautiful, and Wang Yan recommended this quasi-three-star hotel costs excellent (standard room 110 yuan), a group of six people all want to stay here for one more night. So, we set aside a whole day, traveling through the city of Zhongwei and around several small parks, wetlands and mosques. Everywhere we went, it was refreshing. Zhongwei City, really beautiful.

The people of Zhongwei are also very simple. Wang Yan, who was identified as a cab driver in Zhongwei in the Donkey Blog before our departure. I don't know whether I feel very solid about this "rock" word, or this trip to Ningxia is destined to have a close contact with him? When I learned from the Internet "Shapotou" and "Tonghu Grassland" two important scenic spots from the distance of Zhongwei City, I envisioned that the two scenic spots to arrange a day tour, because the furthest away from the city of Zhongwei Tonghu Grassland is only 60 kilometers, but, to tour in a day! Two 5A level scenic spots will have to leave early in the morning, taking into account the morning scene of the desert in the Tonghu Grassland, and stopping on the way to view the idyllic scenery and other hiccups, that's even more have to leave early in the morning. And Wang Yan phone (13409504106) got in touch, I will be envisioned with him to discuss, Wang Yan told me, a day tour of the two scenic spots is completely feasible, and according to the respective characteristics of the two scenic spots, you can selectively arrange the specific content of the tour, so that there will be more time for the stopover on the way to see the idyllic scenery, and at the same time people do not seem how tired. Asked about the car rental fee and service mode, the offer of the master of the Wang let me say nothing, it is determined to rent a car with his verbal agreement. Because of Mr. Wang's offer and service commitment, so I have nothing to say. Our party of six people *** rent two cars, the morning from the hotel with a day, and to ensure that each scenic spot gate up and down the car, to do the car and other people can not wait for the car, *** counting the car rental fee of 160 yuan. Rental car offer premium price to make me a little apprehensive, because I inquired on the Internet, Zhongwei to the Tonghu grassland shuttle bus fare unilateral 10 yuan per person, and not to the second gate of the Tonghu grassland, you know, Tonghu grassland between the first gate to the second gate, there are several miles away it.

According to the agreement, at 6:00 a.m., Wang Shi and his brother gang **** two cars, on time to the hotel door waiting for us. According to Wang Shi's suggestion, the day's itinerary is to tour Tonghu and then Shapotou.

Welcoming the sunrise and bathing in a small cool breeze, the cab drove us to the southeast in no hurry. "The beauty is on the way, the food is in the countryside". Along the way, the countryside was so beautiful that we had to stop for a short while to look at and take pictures of the very pleasant fields.

The annual precipitation in the Zhongwei area is only 180 millimeters, but the crops are lush and fruitful, a harvest is expected. Windbreaks in the shape of zigzag forest belts, will be a piece of farmland divided like a chessboard. When a golden yellow color passes by, it is rapeseed or sunflower; when a dark green color comes, it is rice or wolfberry. Most of the loess plateau is planted with watermelon, a watermelon field, only to see countless large watermelons exposed on the ground to cover all the leaves and vines, the watermelon is the famous selenium melon. The scene in front of us is a picture of a national painting displayed in front of us. The cool wind is blowing and the clothes are hunting, in a trance we have entered the painting - yes, we are this piece of idyllic beauty in a touch of indispensable scenery.

The nationally renowned Ningxia rice production area is in Zhongwei. The rice seedlings here are only about a foot high, not as high as the southern rice stalks, but very dense, it is estimated that the yield must not be low. The highest quality Ningxia wolfberry also belongs to Zhongwei, this time of year, wolfberry has begun to pick, three or five dressed in pink shirts head ò white scarf women, and dressed in blue shirts wearing a white cloth cap (also known as the brimless hat, back to the hat) men are picking wolfberry. Array of "flower tune" from the Qi Garden with the wind into the ear, men singing women and women singing men and men, men and women mixed voice light and lingering is very beautiful. Can imagine, that "flowers" is not exactly their youthful anthem?

A burst of familiar flavor comes with the wind, like lemon and like bananas, sheer sweetness is a bit greasy, show eyes to see, the sheer wind does come from the dream of the jujube forest. By the side of the road, a cluster of gray jujube forest date leaves fluttering, exposing a string of crystal dense jujube grains. The jujube grains were so dense that they fell on the branches. I remember when I was in the army in the seventies, the company feeder would drive the pigs to the jujube grove to put them in this season, and when they arrived at the jujube grove, the "pig herder" would aim at the jujube branches with a few rods, and then the jujube grains fell all over the place, and the pigs grabbed the jujubes with excitement. The pigs excitedly grabbed the jujube, and the "pig farmer" climbed up the jujube tree and slept. Gobi Beach under the hot sun, "crawling and rolling" of us, all aspire to be a "pig farmer".