Route design

Go to: Beijing-Datong-Erdos-Yinchuan-Zhongwei-Lanzhou-Xining-Ta 'er Temple-Xining-Lanzhou-Linxia-Xiahe-Hezuo-Gahai-Maqu-Gahai-langmusi

Return: langmusi-Diebu-Lazikou. Although these two places are two temples, they are actually two small towns. Labrang Temple occupies half of the town area, which can be said to be integrated with the town. I just want to walk around the periphery of the temple, and I already feel very tired, which shows the large area of the temple. Langmu Temple is located in the canyon. The town spans Gansu and Sichuan provinces, with a temple on each side. The snow-capped mountains on the plateau can be seen from afar and won the favor of tourists.

evaluation of the route

this is a tourist route that closely combines plateau scenery with religious culture. There are grasslands, lakes, ancient temples and canyons on the way, and the connotation of the route is rich and memorable. Labrang Temple is a famous temple, its scale far exceeds the imagination of tourists, and its religious atmosphere is also deeply infected. Along the way, the kindness of local residents is also a good memory along the way.

The only thing I feel a little short is that time is tight, which makes people feel tired.

Time required

The journey takes 12 days.

mileage

it spans 9 provinces (excluding Beijing), with a total mileage of about 5,211 kilometers. The highest altitude experienced is 3912 meters, and the altitude in Gannan area is more than 3111 meters, and there is still a slight altitude sickness.

vehicle equipment

Bora 1.8T, mazda 6 2.3-in-one

required expenses

Total expenses of Bora 2 people: 4,619 yuan, including highway expenses of 1,182 yuan, fuel expenses of 1,637 yuan, car repair expenses of 1.21 yuan, per capita accommodation, parking fees and tickets for 941 yuan.

Details of the itinerary

[Day 1]

Route: Beijing-Datong-Erdos

At 8: 31, meet at Xiguan Steamed Bun Shop in Changping, leave early after eating, arrive in Datong at 12 noon, have a big bowl of Daoxiao Noodles for lunch, arrive in Erdos at 22:15, and check into Livzon Hotel. The journey is 711 kilometers.

[The next day]

Route: Erdos-Hangjinqi-Wuhai-Shizuishan-Pingluo-Yinchuan-Zhongning-Zhongwei

Leave the hotel at 9 o'clock, walk around the city for 1 hours, and officially leave at 11 o'clock. Arrive at Pingluosha Lake at 4 pm, and the scenery is a bit like the desert Baiyangdian Lake. The cruise takes two hours, and each person is in 81 yuan. So I changed to a beautiful local waterscape hotel to enjoy the scenery for free and left in half an hour. In the evening, I overeated in the local hot pot city of Haidilao in Yinchuan, and I didn't leave until 9 o'clock. Because the school strength was exported from Zhongning or Zhongwei, I took an extra 81 kilometers of expressway, Taoshan turned around, arrived at Zhongwei at 12:15 and checked into Zhongwei Hotel. The journey is 781 kilometers.

tips:

road construction+coal city, 119 sections of road construction, sometimes detours. In Datong and Junggar, I experienced the annoyance of building roads around and transporting coal trucks. Today, when I leave Ordos and pass through Shizuishan, I still suffer from coal trucks. Of course, compared with traveling with the coal convoy, it's still a little black and blue.

[Day 3]

Route: Zhongwei-Shapotou-Jingtai-Zhongchuan-Lanzhou

Journey: 351 kilometers

9: 21: Departure from Zhongwei Hotel

9: 51-11: 51: Shapotou Scenic Area is divided into two scenic spots, namely, North and South, with the Yellow River in the south. When we drive out of the scenic spot, the Tengger Desert is far to the right, and the scenery of the desert along the way is not worse than that inside the ticket collection.

at 11: 51, the road conditions in Lanzhou are good, there are few cars, and the view is wide. The roadside scenery is very western, and the rolling hills are dotted with scattered vegetation, like small green bumps. On the way, I passed through Dunhuang Film and Television City, much like Xinlongmen Inn.

The wheat fields more than 51 kilometers away from Lanzhou have entered our landscape frame, and the blue sky, white clouds and wheat fields seem to be endless themes.

at 13: 48, go to Nakagawa, and take the expressway which leads to Lanzhou.

leave Lanzhou Dashaping exit at 14: 21

at 15: 18, arrive at 4S shop of FAW Car, No.611 Xijin West Road, Lanzhou, and maintain Ma6.

at 15: 41, Bora was full of five people and went straight to the nearby Ma bearded lamb restaurant with the most local characteristics, and asked for two servings of meat to solve the hunger of eating authentic lamb.

at 16: 41, when I returned to the 4S store, I saw that Ma 6 had been washed clean. Bora couldn't help washing the car in Ma 6 store. The cleaner was unwilling at first, and then he was very serious, so that it took almost 41 minutes to wash it.

at 17: 31, I started looking for hotels, and the prices in the provincial capital cities were really considerable. A 3-star hotel near the 4S shop actually had a standard room of 281, so I had to give up. What a rotten road it is to get into a residential area by mistake. After getting out of danger, I still have no choice but to consult GPS (it's a bit tasteless to talk about this thing when I have time). The first criterion for choosing a hotel is to be close to Binhe Road, because it is close to the Yellow River. GPS took us to Binhe Road, and we didn't want to run errands any more. We checked into Mulan Guest House, which looks very ordinary at Qilihe intersection. Fortunately, it was quite clean inside, and each standard room was 81 yuan.

at 19: 31, we put our luggage into the room, and several people walked along Binhe Road. The Yellow River flowed eastward gently and walked by the river, and it was cool and breezy. The night in Lanzhou made us forget our tiredness for a while after two days of running around all day.

I went back to my residence at 21: 11. Today was the easiest day in two days, so I also had time to record the diary in detail, but I really didn't have time to upload photos, and the internet speed was also fast and slow.

[Day 4]

Route: Lanzhou-Xining-Ta 'er Temple-Xining

Journey: 291km

Leave Lanzhou Mulan Guest House at 8: 51, and refuel at a gas station not far from the hotel.

at 9: 15, go along Binhe Road to Jinding Beef Noodle Restaurant located in Pingliang Road in the city center, which is the most authentic beef noodle restaurant in the area. Sure enough, the beef noodles with a price of 11 yuan are delicious and rich in side dishes, and the mutton and vegetarian stuffed buns with a single point are also very fragrant. The store is still full at this time, so we have to sit at the table with others.

At 11: 51, I had a hearty breakfast, and then I bought water and a map. Driver Liu also went to the mall to buy a genuine Nike long-sleeved shirt for the needs of the plateau, so I started from Pingliang Road.

11: 48 from Hekou toll station to Lanhai (Lanzhou-Qinghai) Expressway

13: 13 to Xining Xiakou toll station, this section of expressway was completely completed soon, the road conditions were quite good, and there were very few vehicles. Expressway walks close to the mountains, just like the song "Mountains are connected by mountains".

at 13: 41, we successfully arrived at Ma Zhong Nianpi, the most famous local noodle shop located in Mojia Street Food Street. It is really wise to say that the GPS is really smart this time, and we can take emergency measures to successfully bypass the destination in case of changing traffic conditions, such as no left. According to the travel book, anyone in Xining would recommend Ma Zhong stuffed skin. It turns out that this stuffed skin will make you want to eat it again, regardless of its variety or taste.

Go to Ta 'er Temple at 15: 11

Visit Ta 'er Temple at 15: 41. It's only over 21 kilometers from Xining to Ta 'er Temple, and there is even expressway. When we came back, we took the expressway, and when we went, the provincial road conditions were also very good.

The Ta 'er Temple is not as magnificent as the Potala Palace, but it is unusually simple because of the connection between many Tibetan living buddhas and it.

at 19: 21, I left Ta 'er Temple and went back to Xining to look for a hotel. On the way, I contacted several hotels by phone. Except for the expensive ones, several hotels in ordinary standard rooms were actually full.

At 21: 11, I finally found Hengqing Hotel in Garden Street in the downtown area, and the standard room is 81 yuan.

[Day 5]

Route: Xining-Lanzhou-Linxia-Xiahe

Itinerary: 481 kilometers

After checking out at 9: 21, I came to the small Muslim hand-grabbed noodle restaurant in frontispiece, downstairs of Hengqing Hotel. Although the friends of the Hui people grasp the noodles by hand, they are really clean. The cooked noodles are piled up like cold noodles. Grab a handful of them and put them in hot soup, and then add seasoning, which is a bit like eating noodles with noodles. With a bowl of soup, the breakfast of more than 3 yuan is of high quality.

we leave at 9: 45. Come on.

At 11: 18, I drove into Xilan Expressway. Today's destination is Labrang Temple in Gannan. Considering the weather and road conditions, I chose to go back to Lanzhou conservatively.

at 11: 15, the rest area in front of the toll gate in Haishiwan was supplemented with "fruits": tomatoes and radishes, which were bought in Xining yesterday.

at 12: 14, I left Xigu exit in Lanzhou, and found it a little early. I had to travel through the city from the west, so I passed Mulan Guest House where I stayed the day before yesterday.

at 13: 11, I arrived at Mulan Guest House and had a lunch in the semi-western and semi-eastern region at the nearby Ganudong finger food shop. This family has done a good job of grabbing mutton, but it has been eating sheep for days, and I can't eat any more.

at 14: 11, refuel at the gas station near Xiaoxihu Bridge again, heading for Linxia City. From Lanzhou to Linxia, take the 57-kilometer expressway to Tangjiaya, and then the national highway. This section of the road passes through the Hui people's residential area, and it feels more than three: there are many mosques on both sides, many gas stations with unknown quality, and many Hui friends wandering around.

at 16: 51, I arrived in Linxia city, and the most challenging self-driving in several days began. Linxia to Hezuo was overhauled, and Xiahe Labrang Temple was in the middle of this section. It's drizzling in the sky, and all the oncoming vehicles are just coming back from cross-country in tropical jungle, and some of them can't even see the license plate clearly. Presumably, so will our cars in the end?

On the road, it's a muddy time but a deep ditch. I watched the off-road vehicles, including those buses and trucks, rushing past Bora and Ma6 without fear, determined to buy off-road vehicles.

At 18: 11, just after Maji Town, an ominous situation appeared. There was a sudden traffic jam in front of the mountain road. There must be a lot of accidents in this place. Sure enough, two trucks were stuck in deep water and blocked in both directions. Some cars began to turn around, and some people said that the only way to Xiahe was to wait. Just at the moment of being scared, a local police car turned around and returned to the city after hearing some whispers, and several cars followed, so we quickly followed the situation. The police car took us to a country dirt road without roads. After all, it is a village road, which is almost the same as the 213 National Road. Anyway, we can finally move forward. The police car soon left us behind. Fortunately, GPS shows that this road can turn to the national highway after 35 kilometers.

After 35 kilometers of bad road, I finally got on the 213 National Road. Maji Town successfully bypassed it, but the next 213 National Road was still in danger. In addition to potholes, some sections are still piled with landslide rocks. At this time, the sky is getting dark, and the lights on the roads with few cars are even more difficult to see. It's 81 kilometers away from the destination Xiahe River, and I'm going at a speed of less than 21 kilometers per hour. I'm afraid I won't know where to wake up tonight. Check the GPS, there is a Qingshui township nearby. When we pass there, it is a small village, which is only a dozen families. It seems that it is also a Hui village. If we really want to live in whose house, we must treat our five Han Chinese cars as monsters! It seems that there is no other way, even if it is late, we can only rush to our destination. In the vast dark night, during the difficult crawling, the feeling of being empty in the middle of nowhere can only be temporarily forgotten when driving with high concentration.

get to wanggeertang toll station at 22: 16, damn it, do you have to charge for such a bad road? According to the toll booth staff, Xiahe River is only 35 kilometers away, all of which are oil roads. When we drove on the asphalt road we dreamed of, we were very uncomfortable. We were always worried that there would be traps ahead. Besides, there were many bends in this section, and there was a feeling of being deep and shallow in the dark, with a speed of only 41 or 51 kilometers per hour.

At 23: 11, I finally arrived at Xiahe and checked into the Dragon Ball Hotel in Gangjian. The conditions were not bad, and there were two triple rooms in 251 yuan. I used the stove for the first time, cooked some instant noodles, and fell asleep. The Labrang Temple, just a stone's throw away from the hotel, will only appear before you tomorrow.

[Day 6]

Route: Xiahe-Cooperation

Mileage: 81km

I got up at 9: 11. I was really tired from running around last night, so I don't want to get too tired today. GPS shows that the elevation of Xiahe River is more than 2,811 meters. It is a little short of breath in the morning, especially when going upstairs.

walk to labrang temple at 11: 11. Compared with Ta 'er Temple, the first of the six Tibetan temples which attracted more people with the New Year film "world without thieves", the incense is flourishing, the buildings are distributed in groups, and it has a little courtyard style, surrounded by green mountains, and the silence is not without beauty. Just in time for the ceremony held here today, there are many lamas, and even Tibetans are waiting in line to enter the temple. The scene is very spectacular.

have lunch at 13: 51, then go shopping. The trinkets here are exactly the same as those in Lhasa and even Dali. After seeing several stores, there is no impulse to buy them. If you haven't been to two places like the above, it's cheaper to buy some to give away than the Ta 'er Temple.

set out for cooperation at 15: 35.

at 16: 17, we arrive at Wanggeertang Toll Station, which is 34 kilometers away from Hezuo. This section is also under construction, which is better than the rotten road after the rain last night. If it weren't for the interference of road construction, the wheat fields, green hills and white clouds on the roadside could really keep more shots.

At 17: 35, when we arrived in Hezuo City, the capital of Gannan Autonomous Prefecture was really full of modern flavor, fresh and tidy. In order to maintain our physical strength, we didn't go to langmusi as planned and decided to live here.

at 18: 11, clean two "mud trucks" and check into the guest house of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Hezuo City.

[Day 7]

Route: Hezuo-Luqu-Gahai-Maqu-Gahai-langmusi

Mileage: 291km

Depart at 8: 41 to the Hezuo Toll Station. The next National Highway 213 is called a green landscape gallery. I really want to set up a tent for a few days. We are traveling at an economic speed, and our eyesight has never been nourished by green as it is today. The rolling mountains and valleys are dotted with patches of white spots and black spots, the white ones are sheep and the black ones are yaks.

shortly after crossing Luqu toll station at 11: 11, we entered Gahai Nature Reserve, which is a protected area of wetlands and grasslands. The grass, sky and water are spotless, so I won't elaborate on the time relationship.

at 12: 11, we arrived at Maqu. Before entering the town, there was the archway with the first bend of the Yellow River in the world. The town was small, so we chose the name after a round trip.