Accumulated for a whole year, the beauty here is amazingly explosive. Even the deserts and lakes were dyed gold, and there was no such pure gold in the country. If you go too early, there are no colorful brilliant colors, and if you go too late, you will be knocked off by the autumn frost of the plateau. Missed it, and have to wait another year. The 21th day of the year coincides with the National Day holiday. The annual Poplar Festival runs from September 25 to October 15, which is also the most beautiful time in Ejin. Missed it, had to wait for the next year.
The yellowing of poplar leaves is related to temperature, humidity and tree age.
Generally speaking, when the minimum temperature drops to about 5 degrees, yellow leaves begin to appear,
Areas with less moisture are yellowed first, and trees with smaller age are yellowish first.
According to experience, there are local yellow leaves around September 10 every year,
Nearly a third of the forest turned yellow around September 20,
The best time to see each year is from September 25 to October 15.
The forest is mostly yellow. If the weather is stable,
Yellow leaves can last until around October 20.
If the cold currents are frequent, most of the leaves will fall after October 15.
Reference table of leaf changes in poplar forest of Ejin Naqi:
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【October 1st/9th/16th Ejina Photography Group】 Lanzhou/Zhangye Colorful Danxia/Ejina Colorful Poplar Forest/Badain Jaran Desert/Xianmi Cailin 7th Photography Activity
Photography teachers recommend shooting highlights:
★ The world's crown, the wonder of the world - Zhangye Colorful Danxia
★ The water and sky are colorful, echoing each other - the Golden Pagoda Poplar Forest
★ Irresistible temptation - the ruins of the mysterious ancient city of Blackwater
★ Ejina poplar forest - three thousand years of waiting, the birthplace of golden autumn blockbusters
★ Badain Jaran Desert – vast and breathtaking desert scenery
★ The golden landscape avenue - Qinghai Xianmi Scenic Area, the autumn color of the north mountain dyed by layers of forests
★ Meet the Hexi Corridor and read the desolate beauty of the Great West...
★ Crossing the Qilian Mountains, visiting the Heihe River (weak water) and the Yellow River, and taking a glimpse of the Gobi landscape
【Event Time】
Phase 1: October 1, 2021-October 7, 2021
Phase 2: October 9, 2021-October 15, 2021
3rd fiscal period: October 16, 2021 - October 22, 2021
【Event Leader】Golden Desert Professional Photography Leader
Event schedule
Day 1 (October 1/9): Lanzhou Meet
On this day, Lanzhou assembled to report that after arriving, you can rest at the hotel. If you want to go out to take pictures, you can choose to go to the Mother River Yellow River, the First Bridge of the Yellow River Zhongshan Bridge, photograph the oldest irrigation tool on the Yellow River, the big water wheel, as well as the most representative sculpture of the Yellow River Mother Statue, as well as the ancient river crossing tool sheepskin raft, after the Yellow River sunset, the night scene of Binhe Road is also a good shooting subject.
Or visit the Gansu Provincial Museum (closed on Mondays). Try the famous Lanzhou ramen (actually Lanzhou beef noodles) and Muslim snacks, you can try the stuffed skin and sweet pickles, recommended to Zhengning Road Snack Street. Be safe during free time.
Suggested shooting locations: Lanzhou Eighth Route Army Office, Night View of Zhongshan Bridge, Yellow River Mother, Waterwheel Park
Accommodation: Lanzhou
Day 2 (2/10 October): Lanzhou – Zhangye (about 504.3 km)
Shooting location: Zhangye colorful Danxia sunset
After breakfast, depart from Lanzhou Expressway to Zhangye, and enter the [Zhangye Danxia Landform] in the afternoon, where there are magnificent Danxia landforms and colorful hills, shoot until the sunset, waiting for the most beautiful moments of light and shadow. Shoot until the afterglow dissipates and check into the hotel.
Accommodation: Zhangye /Linze
Day 3 (3/11 October): Zhangye – Jinta (about 257.7 km)
Shooting location: Jinta poplar forest, desert Gobi, scenery along the way
Depart from Zhangye in the early morning and go to the [Jinta Poplar Forest] to shoot. Although the scale of the Golden Pagoda Poplar Forest is not as large as that of Ejin NaQi, there are fewer tourists in sheng, and you can quietly enjoy photography creation.
Accommodation: Quinta/Jiuquan
Day 4 (4/12 October): Jinta – Ejin Naqi (about 322 km)
Filming locations: Blackwater City, Strange Woods Sunset
Depart from the Golden Pagoda in the early morning, go to Ejin Naqi, and arrive at [Blackwater City] in the afternoon to watch and photograph the mysterious ancient city ruins, which are the lost Western Xia culture.
After that, go to the [Strange Woods] to photograph the sunset scene. Strange woods are a group of dead but immortal poplar trees, dancing in the sunset, strange and strange, heartbreaking, but also the ideal material for photography.
Stay in Ejin Banner in the evening.
Accommodation: Ejin Banner
Day 5 (5/13 October): Ejin Banner all day
Shooting location: Badain Jaran Desert, Desert Camel Shadow, Ejina Poplar Forest or Desert Poplar Forest Free Creation
Ejina Poplar Forest Scenic Area (mainly photographing ErdaoQiao, Sidaoqiao, Badaoqiao and Badain Jaran Desert)
This day is an exciting day, to get up very early, into China's three major poplar forests [Ejina poplar forest], the sunrise of Erdao Bridge and the core scenic spot of Ejina photography, in the evening rushed to the Badain Jaran Desert to shoot desert camel shadow creation.
Shoot freely after noon to capture the diverse scenes of poplar forests. (There is a scenic cycle rolling in the scenic spot)
Remarks: In the Badain Jaran Desert we will arrange camel caravans to shoot for everyone!!!
Day 6 (6/14 October): Ejin Naqi – Zhangye (about 567.8 km)
Filming location: Desert poplar forest
Get up early to shoot the desert poplar forest, and then go to Zhangye to stay at the hotel to rest
Accommodation: Zhangye / Folk Music
Day 7 (7/15 October): Zhangye - Xianmi Scenic Area / Beishan Autumn Colors (195.8 km) - Lanzhou (491.8 km)
Shooting locations: Fairy Rice Forest, Autumn Colors of The North Mountains
Get up early and go to the beautiful scenery of the autumn intoxicating [Xianmi Scenic Area] for creation and shooting, where everything is very pure, very natural, very harmonious, undulating mountains, colorful trees, grazing cattle and sheep, and people working, the beautiful scenery in front of you is a natural landscape pastoral painting. After shooting [Autumn Colors of The North Mountains], I drove to Lanzhou to end the pleasant photography tour of Ejinna and said goodbye happily.
Accommodation: Not included