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During the summer vacation of 2018, 16 days passed through 9 provinces and 7700 kilometers for self-driving tour around Gansu

August 15, 2024

The last long-distance self-driving trip was a 5500-kilometer trip to Yunnan in July 2015. We started a long-distance journey again after three years. I left on July 11th and returned home on July 26th. The 16-day journey was 7700 kilometers through nine provinces. It costs about 1500 yuan a day for a family of four to travel in a car, and it costs 24000 yuan in 16 days. I drive the whole journey by myself. There is a saying that I like very much, “driving on the road is not driving, but feeling the road.” this is the inner portrayal of people who love to drive, and people who like self-driving travel do not care about the destination. I care about the scenery along the way and the mood of watching the scenery. Here are some pictures to share with you.

This is the road map of the whole journey, starting from Longyan, Fujian.

Hand-drawn roadmap and mileage

Daily itinerary. Daily itinerary should not exceed 800 kilometers, so as not to need to travel at night and exert too much physical and mental energy.

Watch the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge from the Yellow Crane Tower

Wuhan Yellow Crane Tower

Jianke Holiday Inn in Shiyan, Hubei Province, is not bad. On the downhill section of the mountain highway at the junction of Hubei and Shaanxi, there will be a speed reducer about 200 meters apart, deliberately protruding some of the road surface will not be flat, the car will have to jump every one or two hundred meters, very uncomfortable road surface, relatively rare. In addition, there is a forced speed reducer in the tunnel, that is, the highest speed reducer can be seen on the road, and the speed should be reduced to a very slow pass, otherwise it will produce a violent beat, which is quite rare!

The ancient city wall of Xi’an has a long history.

The music fountain of Xi’an Big Wild Goose Pagoda needs to be performed at 9:00 in summer. I went back to the hotel before the show began.

The Museum of Terracotta Warriors and horses, Xi’an is a big stove during the summer vacation. The temperature is very high, and the daily temperature is as high as 38 degrees. Fortunately, it just rained two days after we arrived, and the temperature was only about 32 degrees at noon.

Terracotta warriors and horses, and many terracotta warriors have not been excavated.

Qinghai Lake. It unexpectedly hailed for a while while taking pictures here. There was no summer around Qinghai Lake. Rape flowers bloomed only in July, and the temperature was 17-25 degrees.

There are a lot of rape flowers by the lake, with a pleasant scenery.

The prayer flags of the tea card

Online celebrity scenic spot Chaka Salt Lake-Sky Mirror, get up at 3 o’clock in the morning and drive from the Heima River to Chaka Salt Lake. The temperature of the salt lake is even colder, only 12 degrees in the morning, and you need to wear a thin down jacket.

The small train to the center of the lake costs 50 yuan one way.

An abandoned salt train

Come early, there is no one on the lake, the mirror of the sky

Tea card on the way to no man’s land in Delingha, give the hero Xiaobai a beautiful pat.

The car parked on the side of the road to take pictures in the Gobi Desert, no man’s land, but the view could not be seen at home. Here, a car in Zibo, Shandong Province also stopped to take photos. It was also a family of four and two adults with two children, and the younger ones were only in kindergarten. It can be seen that they also like self-driving travel.

Tickets for the ancient Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes need to be booked one month in advance.

There are more than 700 caves with different Buddhist murals with a long history.

There is a tallest Buddha statue in the Mogao Grottoes in the nine-story pagoda.

In the afternoon, I went to Crescent Spring and it rained all the way. Fortunately, the rain stopped after I got to the scenic spot. After the rain, the Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain will not be hot and is suitable for play.

A camel riding a desert boat costs 100 yuan per person and rides a camel around Mingsha Mountain. It is 3 or 4 kilometers away. It shakes very badly on the back of a walking camel. Each camel’s belly is bulging, probably full.

On that day, my son had diarrhea when he ate rou Jia mo in the morning. They were playing in the slippery sand square, and I walked a long way alone to take pictures on the west side of the crescent spring, because the sun could only walk to the west side to take pictures without backlighting. The sun is very strong in the desert, and the temperature rises quickly in the sun.

The ancient tower beside the crescent spring

The first male pass in the world, Jiayuguan

The heroic pass of the world

After looking at these ancient buildings, I lamented that human beings are so small. The scenery is here forever, but people grow old from generation to generation!

Bei Bao Film City, Yinchuan Town

The place where the famous writer used to work

My surname is Ma

My wife got heatstroke that day and had no intention to take a picture.

A donkey pulling a rickshaw

My wife suffered from heatstroke, the weather was very hot and the sun was very strong. I left the Zhenbei Castle soon after I visited.

To come to Yan’an, it is necessary to visit Pagoda Mountain, the ticket is not cheap, 65 yuan per person.

Yan’an is the place where the revolution is victorious. The pagoda is a building of the Ming Dynasty.

In Nanniwan, which was once reclaimed by the 359th Brigade, it is good to bring my mother to see it. When they were young, they sang the song “Nanniwan”.

This year, the Yellow River Basin is rich in Rain Water, and the water volume of Hukou Waterfall is quite large and spectacular. It just arrived at noon, and the sun was too strong to be hot.

The surging waters of the Yellow River

Every scenic spot is full of tourists during the summer vacation.

Live in Hubei Huangshi Xinye Iron and Steel Hotel, in the steel plant, there is a steam engine locomotive, my son is very interested, I also like it, the locomotive I saw when I was a child is like this.

I was almost home. In the service area, I sped more than 7,000 kilometers, and the front of the car was covered with shellac that was very difficult to remove.

The whole journey is 7700 kilometers, and the average fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is 7.6L

The car body is quite dirty, and the white car body doesn’t look dirty. Thanks to the hero Xiaobai for all the hard work!
Although the journey was hard, I was happy because I let myself go. Self-driving travel is not a journey, but a feeling of the road. Don’t worry too much, you have to go as soon as you go on a trip.
Thank you for watching! I wish you all the best!

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During the summer vacation of 2018, 16 days passed through 9 provinces and 7700 kilometers for self-driving tour around Gansu