Error 1: I studied Zhao Yi Expressway carefully on the Internet before I left. There is a post that Zhao Yi Highway starts from Xiata Ranch in Zhaosu, and crosses Tianshan Mountain to the Broken City Animal Husbandry Team in Wensu County, Aksu. This is an ancient road crossing Tianshan Mountain, which greatly shortens the distance between northern and southern Xinjiang, and also seriously marks G577. This article is vague. I didn't expect such a car road. It's steep, but it's passable. Later, I learned that this is actually a hike on Guxiata Road, and it takes 3-4 days to walk 120 km. There is no road traffic at all.
Mistake 2: When Chabuchar closed the road for maintenance, he met the police and asked if he could go directly from Zhaosu to Aksu Wensu. I feel that the local Kazakh police enthusiastically said that this news can be found on the Internet. The heavy rain that day caused the landslide and the Zhao Yi Expressway was closed. The next day, the day we left, strengthened our confidence that we could spend it. In fact, the road from Chabuchar to Zhaosu is closed and has nothing to do with the ancient Xiata Road. This COP's.
Mistake 3: When we got off from Zhaosu County confidently and stopped at the checkpoint of Xiata, we asked whether the highway could always reach Wensu. This time, the minority police's Mandarin was even worse, so they couldn't speak it on the spot. Then he asked why, because we didn't apply for a border card, and then there was a tragic plot. We immediately turned around and rushed back to Zhaosu County for more than 70 kilometers. After asking around, we finally got a border defense card at 4 pm local office hours, and the policewoman who applied for it did not. Later, we felt that the police at the checkpoint didn't know where we were going. Maybe they thought we were going to Muzhar Port in Zhaosu, so they didn't make it clear.
Several big mistakes made us waste an afternoon. When we arrived at Xiata, we inquired about the way to Wensu everywhere, and all we got was to go to Nalati and take the independent library to southern Xinjiang. I am anxiously waiting for the time when the Public Security Bureau will open its doors for work in the afternoon (time difference, it starts at 4 pm here), and only a small flower under the fence comforts our mood.
Let's have a look at the scenery. The Tianma Festival is being held in Zhaosu these days. Rape Flower Sea and Tianma are two famous films in Zhaosu.
The rape flower sea in Zhaosu is on the roadside. Until the end, we couldn't help wondering how such a large rape field was harvested and dried. Maybe there are some unknown tall machines. Everything in Xinjiang is beyond our imagination. Golden cauliflower and green alfalfa, tourists dance in front of the beautiful scenery, which is a beautiful picture.
The Tekes River flows into the Ili River in Tekes through Zhaosu, which is the place with the most abundant rainfall in Xinjiang, and the Ili River is also the river with the largest surface runoff in Xinjiang, all of which are attributed to the terrain surrounded by mountains on three sides to lock in water vapor and snowmelt water in Tianshan Mountain. It is not known whether the horses on the riverside wetlands and high slopes are Tianma, but in our eyes, this is Tianma.