This pink lake of about 30 square kilometers is called Torrekule Lake. While enjoying the beautiful scenery, Mai Xiaodou explained to the audience that pink comes from Dunaliella salina in the lake. They contain heme, and the concentration of heme changes with the rise and fall of temperature, showing different shades of red.
The magic lake seen by Mai Xiaodou and Qianbei in Xinjiang
In the past two years, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei have experienced countless similar journeys. Every time they go to a beautiful place, they will stay for a few days. They once crossed the no-man's land of Hami Sea Road in Xinjiang 40 degrees and ate hot pot in an air-conditioned RV. I also saved an African dirt car in the Sahara desert.
Maidou and Qianbei are in the Sahara desert.
On the way, they always encounter some strange things, and there are always beautiful things waiting in front. In recent years, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei made videos of their experiences in RV travel and posted them in the headline number @ Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei.
I can't live like this anymore.
When resting in a service area in Xinjiang, Qian Bei was surprised to find that there were more than a dozen RVs parked there. Five years ago, when she and her boyfriend Mai Xiaodou traveled to Xinjiang for the first time, I'm afraid they didn't see more than five RVs.
It is not difficult for friends who often travel by car to find that in the past two years, more and more RVs have appeared on the road. In today's headlines, RV creators are constantly emerging. They may share travel stories or introduce car purchase information to stimulate more people's curiosity about life in the car.
202 1, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei are watching the sunset in Sanya.
Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei were the first people to eat crabs. In June 2020, they spent more than 400,000 yuan to buy an RV. Previously, the two had been wandering on the road for four years.
Back to 20 16, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei are running an online shop, spending all day in warehouses and stores, facing customers online all day, and even shopping has become a luxury.
This kind of life can't go on, they have reached an understanding. Made a bold decision: temporarily shelve the online shop and spend a year traveling. Before leaving, they paid attention to many travel creators in today's headlines and drove on the road with longing.
They left Yunnan, passed through Laos and Thailand, and went all the way to Malaysia. The next year, they drove from China to Africa. The round-trip mileage is 60,000 kilometers, and the exotic scenery is dazzling.
At the beginning of the trip, Mai Xiaodou once thought that the mobility of private cars was good, but after the epidemic began, people and cars could not travel frequently at the border, and accommodation and eating often encountered trouble. If you have an RV, it is equivalent to eating and sleeping in your own home, and it can also reduce the risk of infection or isolation.
In the northeast, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei visited the Yalu River Bridge.
Yichun and Ringo, who also put their homes in the car, are a couple born after 90. At the beginning of 2020, they resigned from their hometown in Heilongjiang and went to Hangzhou to find a job. After the plan was disrupted by the epidemic, the two fell into a downturn. Yichun, who was in a difficult situation, thought that when she spent her honeymoon abroad, she and Ringo drove many RVs on the road.
They are all people who love to travel, and they yearn for freedom more than living in the concrete forest of big cities. So, the two bought a more than 300,000 RV on the spot and went on the road.
Pushing open the car door, I saw mountains and rivers and the sea.
Scour an abalone from 8 yuan in Sanya seafood market, feel the beauty of water and sky in Chaka Salt Lake in Qinghai, explore the most Mars-like place on earth by a cold lake, enjoy the Ya Dan landform in Oberliang, Haixi, and have a barbecue in an unknown northeast town.
With the RV, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei almost traveled all over China. From then on, they decided to record the story on the road. On April 20 16, they registered the headline number @ maixiaodou and qianbei.
The scenery I saw on the road, the delicious food I tasted and the interesting things I encountered were all filmed in the video. These experiences are hard to achieve with group tours and ordinary go on road trip. Their adventures have also attracted many fans to follow the drama online.
In Mai Xiaodou's view, continuous shooting and sharing during the journey make life more fulfilling, and it can always be praised by thousands of netizens.
Qianbei is by the sea in Wanning, Hainan.
Mai Xiaodou drove his RV into the pastoral area of Qinghai.
Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei are eating crayfish in Changsha.
For Yichun and Ringo, the biggest gain in the journey is the arrival of their son's stroll.
In fact, at the beginning of the trip, Yichun realized that she was pregnant. Galloping 10000 km, at the end of 2020, they drove to Hainan.
In the end, the child was born in a hospital in Haikou. The camera records the family meeting to name the baby, the clumsiness of the novice mother changing her son's diaper, and the joy of Ringo boarding the RV for the first time with a stroll.
After only 60 days of sightseeing, Yichun took him to see the sea once, and Ringo built him a mini paradise with sand. After a walk 100 days, they set off with their son. This time, Ringo will start from Hainan, cross China and finally return to the northeast.
Yichun and Ringo are on the road together, walking for three months.
Now, their happiest thing is to run around with their children. In the garden of Dali RV camp, I strolled into the soil and looked up and down at the plants I didn't know. Ringo said that this child is wild and has much more interaction with nature.
Running in nature every day, you can see the sea and mountains by pushing open the car door. These scenes they once dreamed of have now come true one by one.
In addition to embracing nature, Yichun also expects to bring the beautiful scenery he sees to more netizens who love life and travel through the lens.
Yichun and Ringo drove their RV to Gannan to participate in the recording of the headline tour "go on road trip Season".
Warming market vs skinny reality?
Of course, the journey is not all beautiful, and Ringo also had thrilling moments.
The total length of his tractor and RV exceeds 13 meters. On one occasion, due to the insufficient weight ratio before departure, when the RV was driving at high speed, the rear car suddenly swung its tail and deviated from its direction. Fortunately, there were no other vehicles on the road at that time. He drove the front car to the next lane and slowed down slowly before the rear car returned to normal.
This sounded the alarm for him: when choosing an RV, driving safety is the primary consideration. No matter whether it is an integral RV or a trailer RV, it is not easy to drive, and the weight ratio of tractor and RV needs to be considered. It is sometimes difficult to move forward when encountering narrow roads or height restrictions. Later, when he drove his RV at high speed, the speed did not exceed 100 yards.
In the past two years, the domestic RV market has become increasingly hot. China automobile dealers association's "202 1 China RV Market Inventory" shows that in 202 1 year, the annual sales volume of China RV was12,582, up 43.2% year-on-year.
From millions of imported RVs to more than 200,000 domestic entry-level models, there are more and more choices for consumers, and the lowest100,000 can win a used car.
However, Ringo reminded that used cars are cheap but not easy to choose. Due to the different levels of refitting plants, they need to be purchased under the guidance of professionals. In the two videos released on August 13, 2020 and August 13, 2026, Mai Xiaodou also shared his personal experience, which is popular science for car fans from the perspectives of RV purchase, driving experience and maintenance.
Mai Xiaodou shared his experience of driving a B-type RV with netizens.
Even if the market continues to heat up, there are still many practical problems to consider. In Mai Xiaodou's view, the RV is a toy with high requirements for its owner.
Compared with the vigorous development of automobile demand, the number of domestic RV camps is far from enough. Every holiday, the RV camp in the south, especially in Hainan, will be full. In addition, if the RV is parked in the camp for a long time, maintenance will also become a problem. In a video of 20021April, Yichun introduced that during her confinement, the RV was parked in the camp for a whole month, and when she set out again, mushrooms had grown in the car.
Yichun tells his experience of growing mushrooms in the RV in the video.
In addition, compared with imported RV, domestic RV will be equipped with large hydropower facilities, but it just looks beautiful. Also limited by the number of camps, some RVs have to stop in ordinary parking lots, and how to deal with sewage and garbage is also very difficult.
Ringo suggested in the video that car owners must be diligent if they want to live comfortably in the RV. They should clean up immediately after meals and check the water and electricity before going out. Rest, work, eating and drinking Lazar should be settled within 10 square meter, and they must not wait until they are on the road to find that they are not suitable for this kind of life.
Life is like a migratory bird, following the climate.
With the growth of strolling, Yichun and Ringo gradually slowed down, and they also faced the problem of going to school after strolling. However, Yichun said that if she has time in winter and summer vacation, she will continue to take her children on the road, and we also plan to complete the dream of traveling around China in five years.
Yichun shared her growing experience in the video.
Yichun said that people who like RV life have some similar characteristics, such as loving travel, embracing nature and enjoying the journey.
Some fans were excited after seeing their videos, and privately asked about the details of RV life. Yichun thinks the RV is good, but it is not suitable for everyone. Fans are not advised to try rashly.
If you are too busy at work and don't have much time on the road, maybe the RV is not for you. In the message interaction, she persuaded. Mai Xiaodou feels the same way. If you regard the RV as a real estate, you can't buy a house and live for only one month a year, can you?
However, for Mai Xiaodou and Qianbei, the convenience brought by the RV far outweighs the burden. On the road, they can always meet many riders, most of whom are self-media practitioners. When we get together, we will share interesting stories about our journey and recommend our next destination to each other.
When you really decide to put your home in the car, the RV may be a more economical choice. Mai Xiaodou calculated an account, and the husband and wife were on their way. In general, the cost is about 15000 yuan, including the gasoline, water and electricity of the RV and the food and clothing for two people. These expenses can be covered by the income from operating self-media accounts. If it is an ordinary go on road trip, in the tourist season in Xinjiang, the monthly accommodation fee alone will exceed five figures.
Qianbei shared the cost of RV travel with netizens.
Next, Mai Xiaodou and Qian Bei plan to visit autumn scenery in Aershan, where autumn is short and magnificent, and endless forests and lakes reflect the sky. They also want to wait until after the epidemic, drive an RV to Europe and settle their homes in more corners of the world.
For them, this is the most important thing on the way to open a house: two people are together, identify with and love their way of life, care for each other and support each other.