Journey to the West D40: I didn’t take the Duku Highway and spent a day resting in Duku Base Camp.

Westbound Diary D40: (2021/7/18, Sunday): Duku Base Camp, trip 0 kilometers

The weather is cloudy to cloudy, the temperature is 20-31

< p> Last night we parked at the Duku base camp in Dushanzi District. It was a wasteland a year ago. Now it has been built into a tourism service complex integrating hotels, restaurants, night markets, entertainment, Duku Highway Museum and other facilities. It is also the first self-driving place in Xinjiang. The services and facilities of the recreational vehicle and RV parking area should be the best in Xinjiang and even in the country, and all of them are free.

Yesterday, we asked our itinerary to a veteran of "I go, I tell, I drive" who has driven in Xinjiang many times. She suggested that this time we take the Qolma to Kuqa section of the Duku Highway. , so that our Xinjiang self-driving tour basically does not take large repetitive routes. Therefore, we plan to go to Sailimu Lake today, wait for Ili to pass through, return from Tangbula Baili Gallery to the Choorma section of the Duku Highway, and then take the Duku Highway.

Still had a good night's sleep. My wife got up at 7:30 and said that fellow Suzhou fellows across the street had already driven on the Duku Highway, while I didn’t get up until 8:00.

When I got up, I found that many of the cars parked at the base camp last night had already driven on the Duku Highway. Two college students from Chongqing University Town who had set up tents next to our parking space last night and were traveling on motorcycles in Xinjiang also got up soon. After packing, they said goodbye to us and went to ride the Duku Highway.

It was cloudy and sunny this morning, and the temperature was very cool. We suddenly didn’t want to leave and stayed at Duku Base Camp for another day to rest.

We first rearranged the items in the car in the morning. This is a big move. We first dismantled the bed of the car and spread a lot of things on the floor. Then based on the frequency of use of travel items during the 40 days, we put the less commonly used items at the bottom, and adjusted the commonly used items and some food items to the easy ones. It took almost a morning to rearrange the items in the car. While sorting things out, my wife’s fan sister who she met yesterday brought her a cup of home-brewed coffee, which was very fragrant.

The base camp provides a cooking room for self-driving cars. There is a pool outside, many electric sockets indoors, and an induction cooker. At noon, we used the electric pressure cooker for the first time to cook two cups of rice. In addition to the large plate of chicken that we had not finished eating in Kuitun yesterday, and a small pot of large plate of chicken stewed rice, we had two meals for lunch and dinner.

The sun came out in the afternoon, and we sat under the sunshade of the "I Walk, I Tell, I Drive" RV. My wife chatted with her sister, whom we fell in love with at first sight, and I used my rare free time this afternoon to edit three videos. . There are still a lot of video materials, so let’s edit them later!

I have no schedule today. I will visit the Duku Highway Museum next afternoon. Let me share some pictures of the museum with you!

The rest of the time is spent in this base camp in a daze. "I go, I tell, I drive" gave us a sunshade curtain, and used the car to build a bridge with our small tent, which just cast a cool breeze.