After almost a day and night of grueling traversing in Hunsandak, we finally arrived at Dalinor Lake. In this we experienced a very local characteristics of the opening ceremony of the winter fishing festival, winter production scale, is the fishermen's harvest season, the local people are accustomed to this kind of winter fishing open nets as the beginning of a production year. And the use of an ancient fishing method that has been passed down from generation to generation. After experiencing the opening ceremony of the Winter Fishing Festival, we traveled south across the frozen lake to today's destination, Hot Water Pond, and visited Huanggangliang, the starting point of the Daxinganling. [This article is reprinted from WeChat: Radish Report]
1 Cross-country Roadbook - Dalinuoer Lake
After a day and night of traversing the Hunsandak, we finally arrived at Dalinuoer Lake. Here we will experience the opening ceremony of a very local winter fishing festival. We then head south across the frozen lake to today's destination, Hot Water Pond, and visit Huanggangliang, the next point on tomorrow's route.
Because Yin, who passed through the car the day before, helped Li share a lot of the journey, he still had the energy to get up early today to see the sunrise. But Zhen, who had been fighting alone for 15 hours, had already slept in the hotel so much that he missed the early-morning trip ......
After enjoying the short but beautiful sunrise, our group drove to the winter fishing ceremony to be held at 8 or 9 o'clock in Dalinuoer Lake. The "tsunami clouds" along the way seemed to put us on the planet Miller in Star Trek. After a short drive, we arrived at the site of the Darinol Lake Winter Fishing Ceremony, where many tourists and photographers were gathered. Today, Dalinor Lake is as lively as the Chinese New Year. Although the weather this year is very cold, but because the ice on the lake surface has not yet reached the thickness of 45 centimeters, so today there is no official tractor net fishing. Just opened a small hole to symbolize the first net fish up. So the main purpose of the tractor today is to "stand". The real net time is estimated to wait until after New Year's Day. Due to the quality of the Darinuoer Lake is a semi-saline lake, so here only crucian carp and Huazhi fish two kinds of fish, and has a "living fossil" known as Huazhi fish is more loved by everyone, this fish is tender, the largest but 2 pounds, and grow to 2 pounds need ten years. In the ritual site, people use bonfire, rake and plow and the fish offered to the gods to pray for a good harvest this year. Mr. Li's travel photo unfortunately this time did not see the actual operation of the winter fishing, but we have no way to continue to wait, because at this point in time Dali Lake around the price of food and lodging is too expensive, up to 2 to 3 times the plain, so we are here to cross the ice to the south shore of the Dali Lake. The endless lake coupled with the endless clear skies made it seem as if one was lost in a marvelous fantasy.
Because the lake is frozen from the edge to the center, and the thickness of this year's lake ice is not yet in place, the driving route must go around the center of the lake. From the ice lake on the road after we have been driving in the national highway G303 to the next destination - hot water pond town. 2 cross-country road book - hot water pond town roadside fences are pregnant with the legendary Simon sheep, because they ate the grass on the saline soil grew up, so the The meat is tasty and has no fishy odor. In addition to the winter fishing festival at Dali Lake, there is also a week-long Keshketeng Banner Steam Locomotive Festival near Hot Water Pond Town here. At the end of December every year, the steam locomotive once again ignited, every morning from the Daban station, all the way to the west terminated in the Keshketeng Banner capital seat Jingpang station, and then in the afternoon to return along the original route. This time to see the world's railroads on the basically extinct steam train, is really quite touching ...... appreciate the nostalgia of the steam train, we will continue to the destination - hot water pond town, unfortunately our car in the mountains out of fuel. After replenishing the fuel, we set off again and arrived at our destination - Hot Water Town. However, we didn't have time to rest before it got dark and headed to Huanggangliang to explore the road.3 Off-road road book - Huanggangliang because if we didn't make sure that the next day's downhill point was passable on the first night, we would have to wait until the next day to find out the problem, and then the day would be a waste. Fearing the worst, the firebreak at our next day's dismount point was blocked off and the snow in it had reached over a meter deep. When you encounter such a blocked firebreak in winter, don't venture into it. On the way back, the icy road and Mr. Li's excessive cornering speed caused the vehicle's rear wheels to skid and go off the road.
And because the road was higher than the ground, plus the front wheels were stuck in the snow with no traction, Mr. Li could not get out by himself.
There was a pole directly behind the car at this point, but because Mr. Lee had secured the winch to the front of the car, he was unable to take the self-rescue.
After Zhen administered the rescue to Mr. Li, the two returned to the town of Hot Water Pond.
4 Off-Road Roadbook - Return to Hot Water Pond Town