Xinjiang Ji Xing 4 overnight in Hemu Village
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↑ A log cabin in the valley steppe
Before I went to Xinjiang, my first impression of Hemu Village was the small wooden houses standing on the picturesque grassland. And the tour guide greeted us the day before in Keketuohai, tomorrow night to stay in Hemu Village, is a cabin-style homestay, the conditions are not good compared with the hotel in the city, I hope everyone's big suitcase does not take off the car, only bring some toiletries on it. At the time, I was thinking that I would finally be able to experience what it was like to live in such a primitive cabin.
↑ Hemu Scenic Area Visitor Center
We left the Wucaitan Scenic Area at half past three in the afternoon of the same day, the car drove on the winding mountain road for nearly three hours, and arrived at the visitor center of Hemu Village at more than six o'clock in the evening. After some tossing, when we went around the main scenic spot of Hemu Village for an hour or two, and returned to the homestay where we stayed, it was already ninety o'clock in the evening. However, it is not too late here, because it will be dark at ten o'clock in the evening in Xinjiang, and it is normal to have dinner at ten o'clock.
↑The guesthouse is a newly built log building
The B&B we stayed in was not in the old village of the main scenic spot, but close to the tourist distribution center. Open the door and walk into the room to make my eyes shine, the appearance looks like a cabin-like building, inside is completely a modern hotel standard room, independent bathroom, TV, WIFI, electric kettle, etc., everything, the most surprising thing for me is that the toilet in the bathroom, it is a fully automatic smart toilet, the hotel in the city is reluctant to use this, right?
↑ Hemu River and Hemu Bridge
Lying on the bed, I remembered the feeling of visiting Hemu Village just now, the green mountains and snow in the distance, the rushing Hemu River in the distance, the birch forest on the bank of the river valley, and the small wooden houses on the grassland, these primitive beauties have not changed. But looking at the endless stream of tourists in the village, the flashing neon lights on the roadside cabins and restaurants, the cabins and inns behind the restaurants, and the buses on the roads in the village, the development of the tourism industry has brought great changes to this primitive village.
↑ A log cabin in Hemu Village
↑Chalet restaurants on both sides of the village road
It is the largest and farthest of the three existing Tuvan villages (Hemu Village, Kanas Village, and Baihaba Village) in mainland China, and is located in the northernmost border of China, Russia and Mongolia in Xinjiang, with a total area of 3,040 square kilometers. The houses here are all made of logs, and the wooden houses are small and chic, half buried in the earth, to resist the severe cold of the snow-covered mountains here for nearly half a year, with the traditional characteristics of the nomadic people, which has become a unique symbol of the Tuvan people, and this kind of wooden house is not seen in other places.
↑It's June, and the snow is still on the mountains near the village
Like the place names of other ethnic minority areas in Xinjiang, the word "Hemu" is only the pronunciation of the Tuvan people of Mongolia, meaning a place with fertile water and grass. Here, the ice and snow melt in spring, and the river valley grows and blooms; In summer, there are flocks of cattle and sheep on the green lawn, and white gauze clouds and mist drift in the valley, like a fairyland; In autumn, the mountains are red and the forests are dyed, becoming a "photographer's paradise" that photography artists yearn for; The small wooden houses on the winter grassland are wrapped in heavy snow, more like a dream ice and snow palace, known as "China's first village" and "the self-reserved land in the back garden of the gods".
↑The author (right) and his two younger brothers took a photo in Hemu Village