Xinjiang is a province in northwest my country with extremely rich natural landscapes and a huge and complete ecological chain. The climate and environment changes throughout Xinjiang are very obvious, giving tourists a dreamlike distortion and psychedelic feeling.

Self-driving travel involves nothing more than the following expenses: food, accommodation, transportation, entertainment (tickets), and miscellaneous expenses. I will report them one by one.

1. Food and Beverage In fact, when driving on a self-driving tour, you should first talk about food, but our Chinese people are accustomed to talking about food first. Food is the first priority for the people, so let’s talk about food first. We are two people (husband and wife) traveling by car, not a RV.

It’s not a bed and breakfast (you don’t cook and eat by yourself), it’s all about eating in restaurants, eating local specialties, and staying in hotels. It’s neither a luxury trip nor a budget trip, it’s just a popular self-driving trip.

Because we have all passed the age of knowing our destiny, for the sake of good health, we have not eaten dinner for several years. As for the reason why we do not have dinner to be healthy, netizens will know it by searching online, so I won’t go here_Sorry, so

I eat two meals every day, breakfast and lunch, and eat dried fruits for dinner. I also maintain this lifestyle when I go on a self-driving tour. But as everyone knows, most of the time when driving on a self-driving tour, you are on the road at noon, so you have to eat in the car at noon.

Eat dry food first and then eat after arriving at your destination.

In this way, for 35 days from departure to return, we spent 3,304 yuan on food, an average of 94.4 yuan per day.

The cost of this meal is not high, and there is a reason for that. Xinjiang cuisine mainly includes hand-made rice, noodles, hand-made mutton, kebabs, lamb legs, mutton hot pot, grilled buns, naan bread, etc. These delicacies are really good.

Eat. But you can see that these delicacies are mainly based on meat, and the fat and protein content are very high. It is okay to eat one or two meals, but I am afraid it will be too much if you eat it for a few days. You still have to restrain yourself. No wonder

There are many super fat people over 40 years old in Xinjiang, regardless of gender.

So we had a delicious meal and a vegetarian meal in between to maintain balance. The most expensive meal was beef hot pot in Taxkorgan County for 270 yuan, and the cheapest meal was in Nalati Town for several days in a row.

The meal fee is 20 yuan, why is the meal fee only 20 yuan per day? This has to do with the itinerary, which will be explained in the "OK" section below.

We were surprised that the cost of meals in Xinjiang was so low. Before traveling, we knew that Xinjiang had a lot of delicious food and the price of meals was higher than that in the mainland. We didn’t expect that our expenditure in this area was much lower than the cost of meals in other places in China.

, the average meal cost when we traveled in other parts of the country was 130 to 150 yuan per day, but in Xinjiang it was less than 100 yuan per day, with a total cost of 3,304 yuan.

I have traveled all over the motherland except Tibet and Taiwan Province, and it is simply out of touch to talk about food without Sichuan.

Here are a few delicacies recommended for everyone to try: hand-caught mutton, grilled mutton skewers, beef/mutton hot pot, naan is a must-eat, buy medium-sized naan, it tastes good, don’t buy too big, it is not very delicious.

, just grab the rice with your hands and have a meal.

2. Accommodation in the hotel. We have never slept in the car at night when traveling by car. We have spent a whole day in the car during the day and curled up in the car to sleep at night. I think this is not a trip but an escape.

Our accommodation standards are mainly based on domestic mid-range hotel chains, such as *Feng, *An, etc. The rooms are clean and tidy, the beds and quilts are comfortable, and the price is right.

We have stayed in hotels with history and sentiments in certain places in the country regardless of price, such as a state guesthouse in a certain place, a *ping hotel in a certain place, a *nest resort paradise in a certain place, etc. The nightly accommodation fee is 1,800 to 2,400 yuan.

, because I think travel includes experiencing historical and emotional attractions, buildings and hotels, which is the experience and meaning of life.

There are also B&Bs and inns in some places.

The total cost of accommodation during this trip to Xinjiang was 6,228 yuan, with an average of 183 yuan per day. On some days, accommodation in a farmhouse in Nalati Town cost 110 yuan per day. This is related to "travel". Let's talk about it in "travel".

This time, a website actually compensated me 198 yuan for one day's accommodation fee.

The reason is that the hotel I booked did not have a room, but the website charged my room fee and placed the order. Later, it refunded my room fee and compensated me according to the booked room fee. I am a diamond customer of a certain website with good reputation. I have been using this website for more than ten years.

All bookings are made on this website.

Therefore, in terms of price, there are advantages in rescheduling dates, temporary check-outs, priority room upgrades, etc. The most expensive one-night accommodation fee for this Xinjiang trip is 336 yuan. It is a Uyghur-style B&B in Turpan.

, because there are no hotels with special historical significance in Xinjiang, so the accommodation cost is not high.

3. Transportation fare We set off from Dujiangyan, Sichuan in two people and one car. The car is a German brand SUV, 2.0T, full-time four-wheel drive. It is 11 years old and has a mileage of 193,000 kilometers when we set off. I dare to drive it.

The reason why such an old car travels to Xinjiang, which is so far away, is because I maintain my car myself, so I know if there are any problems.

Except for the three northeastern provinces and Hainan Island, where I rented a car for travel, I drove it everywhere else. It was like the white dragon horse on Tang San’s pilgrimage to the West. My wife doesn’t know how to drive and doesn’t have a driver’s license. She can’t go anywhere.

I drive everywhere by myself.