Driving In Gansu Province | The Roads Across The Desert | Northwest China | 甘肃
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Gansu is a province in north-central China. Its city of Jiayuguan is known for the striking Overhanging Great Wall and imposing Jiayuguan Pass fortress complex, both part of the Great Wall of China.
The nearby city of Jiuquan is a gateway to the July 1st glacier, which crowns the Qilian Mountains to the south, and to the Gobi Desert. Jiuquan's Silk Road Museum houses artifacts from this ancient trade route.
Gansu province, in northwest China, shares its borders with the Tibetan plateaus and Mongolia. It is home to 26 million people, including several Tibetan and Central Asian minorities. These influences, plus a dramatic desert terrain, make Gansu an exotic, unusual Chinese destination for travellers.
Plateaus are the dominant physical features of Gansu. Along the southern border, the lofty ranges of the Qilian Mountains separate Gansu from Qinghai. These ranges have an average elevation of 12,900 feet (3,900 metres) above sea level. Near Lanzhou the Huang He valley opens out, and excellent agricultural land is available.
Some 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Lanzhou there is a stretch of interior drainage where the land is relatively flat and where glacier-fed streams, including the Hei River, disappear into the desert; this is the area referred to as the Hexi (Gansu) Corridor.
The higher mountains nearby are covered with forests, and their lower slopes are green with grasses, but the floor of the corridor itself is monotonously flat and barren yellow earth. Geologically, formations of the Neogene and Paleogene periods (those about 2.6 to 65 million years old) appear in a number of basins in Gansu, with strata generally composed of red clays, conglomerates, red sandstones, and gypsum.
The topographical features of Gansu are relatively uncomplicated in the west and northwest, in contrast to the southeast, where the land has suffered local dislocations from earthquakes.
In the northwest there are very few mountains but rather a hilly terrain that merges into the Gobi Desert to the east. The average elevation is about 3,000 feet (900 metres).
The eastern part of Gansu is a major centre of earthquakes in China. From the 6th century CE to the present, major earthquakes have taken place an average of once every 65 years, while minor quakes occur at least once every 10 years.
Gansu's western frontier thus juts right into the borders of the vast steppes of Mongolia, the unforgiving deserts of Xinjiang and the high mountain wastelands of the Tibetan Plateau.
The northwest province of Gansu spans the Qinghai-Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Loess plateaus in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
The topography is complex and the climate unpredictable. The river valleys in the south belong to a subtropical zone while the north is an arid temperate zone.
The province was a center for East-West cultural exchanges as early as the Han and Tang dynasties. Many people go to Gansu to seek out the the roots of world civilization.
The 1,600-km-long Silk Road of the Han and Tang dynasties unfailingly brings the visitor to such places as the grottoes at Dunhuang (a veritable world-class treasure house of art), the Jiayu Pass on the Great Wall of China, Majiishan Grottoes of Tianshui, the Labrang Temple of Xiahe, the Great Buddha Temple at Zhangeye and the bronze sculpture of galloping horse in Wuwei.
Gansu contains some of the largest and most important Tibetan monasteries outside of Tibet province.
Travel by local bus across high, frigid plateaus to reach them. Ride horses across the plateaus past yurts. Share lunch with Tibetan monks. Share yak butter tea with monks.
This part of China bears almost no resemblance to Eastern Han China. Empty, wild, culturally and ethnically distinct, it offers some of the most exhilarating travel in the world.
Imagine 7 hours of travel across a high plateau in a rickety bus dating from 1970. Every few hours, one of your neighbors, swathed in yak wool, stops the bus, dismounts, and starts walking to the horizon. You can see for 20 miles in all directions. There are no towns in sight. It is an empty and riveting land.
Beware of the time of year you travel there. It is wicked cold even in May. In rural areas (the most interesting areas are rural), very few housing options are available. Probably, there will be no heat. So bring layers or buy a yak wool coat.
0:00 Intro
0:46 The road across the desert
40:40 Zhangye Morning Driving
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I quite enjoy this video. Gansu is an isolated province with a dry, arid and harsh evironment. From the journey I could pick out the adjacent high speed rail viaduct. Thus China first build the road. The road then enable materials transported to construct the piers, columns and beams for the HSR structure. Then there are power transmission towers, some of which could be UHV in DC, and telecommunictaion towers and masts. In this video one can see how China provide the road network, then train tracks for passengers as well as large scope for moving goods, then electricity and telecommunications like 4G and 5G into the province. It is a lot of work but bit by bit China develops itself.
The ride quality is good according to the video. The road does have a huge amount of cross cracks, possibly every 10 to 15 m intervals, possibly repaired by injection of bituminious compound. I would single out the cleaniness of the roadsides as good as any European or even better than the North America standard and definitely beat those in the Middle East hand down..
The street furniture, like the road signs, armco crash barriers, fencing and road markings are in good state of repair. I notice every now and then there were dummy policemen placed to alert the drivers. This I have not seen outside China. Another type of road signs possibly exclusive in China is banners to encourage it is the public duty to keep the road fluid and clean. This banners occur sparsely but a gentle reminder of what the government want from the drivers. In one it says the road can connect thousands and thousands of home. To make sure it is not disrrupted and kept clean depend on everybody's contribution. Another sign says the road scenery is as pretty as a picture but it is up to us to protect it this way. In the west this would be viewed as authoritarian or even a breach of personal freedom.
The information you shared is awesome, dear friend.
Thanks a ton for saying that.
All the best!
@@WalkEast Пожалуйста снимите такую же поездку в Синьцзян
А также по городам Урумчи, Кашгар, Хотан, Кульджа, Аксу, Турфан, Алтай
Кызылсу Киргизский автономный округ
These are not cracks but the shadow of electric wires
This is totally awesome. Never in my wildest dreams would I picture this to be China. Parts of it remind me of the mid-west in the USA and the middle east as well. This arid area is so incredible with the vast landscapes with little inhabitants. The green belt is China's solution to fighting back the desert and I have to say that mankind has conquered nature in the most beautiful way. Bravo China, Bravo Max for showing us another fantastic video.
My friend, you always sent me informative comments which made my day.
Thank you again🙏
I hope the war of fighting back the desert would goes well for the entire world
God bless!
From a Wuhanese living in Texas
Midwest? You mean Western right?
Hello, foreign friends. I'm from Gansu. I'm very glad to see that you yearn for the place where we live. I hope to have the opportunity to play here in the future. I'm very willing to receive you😁
I feel a life time is not enough to see all the beautiful places in China. Thank you and continue recording these gorgeous sights.
Thanks for your kind feedback
indeed. And I've only been to 5% of China. I hope I can visit more soon..
@@joyjoyoo You would definitely visit lots of beautiful places in China
The world-class infrastructures and beautiful BLUE SKY in China are breathtaking.
I am planning on visiting this country with majestic natural beauty.
Welcome, friend
Umm bro actually this is because this one of the shortcut that's why this way has been made or it was totally deserted
Beautiful Video Again about Gansu province @Walkeast Keep up the hard work in showing us the beauty of China 🇨🇳❤🇰🇷
Thanks, dear friend
Nice day!
沙漠的雄浑，在荒凉、干燥的沙漠往往有着许多蔚然壮观的自然风貌。风光与众不同，羡慕你的一次又一次神奇的旅行🏜🏜🏜
点点佳句频出，感谢带感留言，祝福你也神奇分享，愉快一周！
china really have nice roads to connect other city's awesome!
Thanks, buddy
China is amazing 🇨🇳❤️
Thanks, Meir
What a gorgeous and breathtaking view.
Thanks, friend
Looks like China has been doing a terrific job of developing this land....and it's so nice to see all the greenery there. I'd say the future looks bright for this area of the country.
Thanks for your kind feedback
Thank You So Much, watching your 4K content here in Scandinavia. Thanks. I love your WalkEast channel, have recommended it to friends. Thanks. The sun along the driving is so wonderful. You have great capture. Beautiful. Big up.
Your encouraging words are awesome.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Indeed amazing! The highway landscape n scenery is just splendid. Its not an easy feat to build highways across the desert due to its unstability of soils though. Its great to drive along these highways yeah! Thanks for sharing.👍
Thanks again, Jass
Hope you could have the driving chances in wonderful landscapes
@@WalkEast its great to drive such smooth highways at yr own sweet time yeah!👍😊
I smile every time you release a new video. Thank you!
I thank you every time you send me a great comment🙏
very impressed road side of these desert small towns are so meticulously landscaped
Thank you, Wu.
I learned a new word from you: meticulously
Thank you!
Your superb and high quality videos and dedication of showing the real China in real time unaltered is the best of the best...
A picture is worth a thousand words ....
Thanks for your kind words to those pictures, dear Sun
I like the desert area of China than the greenery of Chengdu and zhejiang province. Desert area is so nice than the greenery 🤩🤩🇨🇳🇨🇳👌
Thanks for your like, dear friend.
Have a good day!
I had never before seen a scenic drive in this country ,very good footage and great weather! Congratulations, HR 🙏🏼👏🏼
Thank you very much!
This beauty makes driving more easy.. and relaxing 😌
Thanks, friend
saludos amigo. aquí en México también tenemos desierto y se le conoce como zona del silencio, se le conoce así x que ningún estación de radio o señal de celular te agarra solamente escuchas pura estática 👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌
We have 5G network in deep deserts in China
Shocking beautiful scenery, thank you for your efforts
Thanks for Hao's nice words!
This looks like a drive across the Mojave desert. Definitely on my bucket list, have to take up the road some day.
Thanks for your sharing! Welcome to drive on this road!
Spectacular landscapes along the road while drive such a smooth perfect highway for long driving thanks a lot for your nice filming.
Many thanks, my old friend
Ah, Yang guan pass! The Han Dynasty tower beyond Dunhuang. A long way west.Almost to Xinjiang
Further west than Zhangye
So beautiful 👍 Wonderful Drive ✨✨
Thanks, buddy
Insanely clean and beautiful Gangsu province and its highway!!!
Thanks, Kevin, happy Sunday!
JUST WONDERFUL DRIVING IN GANSU PROVINCE. THE ROAD IS AMAZING !!!
that province is 10times bigger than my country !!! thank u for the drive
You're so welcome, dear friend
老哥去甘肃出差了啊，这视频好，贵在真实。旁边连绵不绝的电塔也很壮观。
感谢支持，连绵的电塔脚下花正开：）
Keren pemandangan nya, sangat indah...👍
Great and scenic travel. In espacialy i was impressed from railway line withing desert and sands.
Thank you for sharing🙏 I havent seen massive china landscape like this👍
Thanks for visiting
Excelente video. El desarrollo de China se muestra incluso en sus carreteras eso es impresionante como avanza China. Saludos.
Gracias por tus amables comentarios, querido amigo.
¡Feliz fin de semana!
gracias x el tour y la explicación tan detallada gracias x tu videos
China! Grande! Bela! - Estou encantado com o texto, escrito na minha língua! Que maravilha, estou aprendendo História e Geografia desse país que amo tanto!(Brasil)
Comparto tu opinión, es muy amable de parte de Walk East darnos la oportunidad de leer y aprender en nuestro propio idioma 👋🌎
加油
Thanks Max ! Somehow it was very relaxing 💖
Very glad you think so, Tuulikki friend
欢迎walk哥来我们甘肃！虽然是全国最穷省份之一😅，但最近几年发展的也很快，也有很多美景美食！祝你玩得开心！
感谢杰斐逊的欢迎，对于来自南方的我，一切都是那么新鲜，我很喜欢甘肃！
老哥每个人都回复，厉害👍🏻有心了
现在很少有这个时间啦！
Very Good! China is very Beautiful, Thank you to sharing with us, with my respect from Brazil
Thank you too!
跟我想象的甘肃完全不一样，谢谢你的影片，让我开了眼
感谢小关的支持！
Awesome
Thanks, Harry
The desert road is beautiful, parts of the vid seems to open up to sheer vastness that is just spectacular. But I can't help but think of China's history where 100,000's+ strong and determined soldiers marching long distances in that area, wow. 40:47 what a pretty town, in fact all the towns on this vid are pretty. 42:47 what an amazing sunrise, the imposing and magnificent mountains to the left, awesome. Omg 44:34 I love that mountain, lol. I'm intrigued lol 46:20 a person in the middle of nowhere walking??? This is the second time in the vid, during the videoing of the desert there appeared to be a person standing or walking in the middle of nowhere. 1:03:11 is the sun is BEAUTIFUL WOW! This road trip would be mantis for anyone to do. Thank you for sharing, take care, be safe, be healthy and lots of success to you from Aotearoa [NZ]
Maraea, I always review the moments with your great sharing.
I always like to see what you think about the video.
Your feedback is awesome, thank you and have a good day!
@@WalkEast I think lots and lots watching your vidz but I don't type it all because it's too much. For example: [1] when I saw the trucks my first thought was, wow what would it be like to see the scenery from inside the truck as you travel the roads. [2] the people you drive past I think: who are they? what do they do? what are they selling? Lol. Anyway be safe, take care and may you have lots of successes.
Infrastructures in Gansu👍👍👍
You have better 4k-camera than most of MSM...hahah. Your Content is very authentic and original. Stay real, original and big up once again!
Thanks for your kind feedback, dear friend.
thx for sharing 🙏
My pleasure
China abriendo caminos y comunicando de extremo a extremo ¡Siempre sorprendente ante los retos de cualquier índole!.
Nos mantenían atentos al resto del mundo queriendo entender el motivo, quizá solo se trataba de que la guía de la manada de elefantes tenía grabado el recuerdo de la inmensidad y belleza de este país y como tú lo haces aventuró a su grupo para regalar está gran experiencia de vida.
Extender las alas y emprender el vuelo gracias a tus imágenes y significativo trabajo es una vivencia indecifrable y única de quién lo recibe desde el otro lado de la cámara. GRACIAS siempre amigo. 👏👏👏✌️🤗👍
¡Gracias también, mi siempre amigo!
Siempre puedo sentir un gran placer al leer tus palabras.
¡Eres increíble!
Beautiful！❤
Thank you! Cheers!
Que maravilha essas estradas
em quando no brasil , gente pagar tando ipva,so tem rua cheio de buraco
Good driving. Sir 👍and god bless you💐💐
Thanks 👍
ทิวทัศน์สวยงามแปลกตาดี
OMG I can’t describe my emotions into words!! The landscape and the sky is just so beautiful! I really need to travel to China🤦🏻
Thanks for your support!
愉快的郊區駕駛謝謝
感谢支持！
Another masterpiece !!! Thanks for staring this amazing video mate. Keep continuing and wish you all the best. By the way which camera do u use for drive ? Amazing picture clarity.
Thank you very much!
多謝分享
终于更新！
是啊，兄弟，最近我忙蠢了，刚刚封闭式培训两天，很紧凑，啥都做不了
just wow!! this is movie quality!
Actually, not that good..
interesting great video
Glad you think so!
great video...wish normal travel can so be back to normal so I can do my own road trip around china.
You can do it!
Great views :D
Thanks, buddy
What a cool hey!! Dears why did u kept made a excellent 👏 videos? 😆 i'm really getting envy u very!! Ahhh it's more than that very important to your healfhy firstly and than anything or something 😊😊 hope u extra care for yourself wirh " delta virus " i've always cheers for u everyday
Thanks, my walking friend. Your cheers are important to me.
Hope you could always meet your own "Wows" all the time!
@@WalkEast yeah yeah !! I make sure to give it a try everyday 😁
nice work!
您的夢想也是仗劍走天涯吧！
🤣
這種環境走一遍會上癮的，感覺沒了一切煩惱，是那麼愜意，安靜，和諧。
感谢支持，我的梦想是仗剑走天涯并分享给各位看：）
这里确实惬意
I like this very much! Thank you for this cool trip! More, please!
Thank you! Will do, Mr.A.W
@42:35 Beautiful sunrise
China supreme in countries،،🇵🇰🇨🇳💯
🌹🙏
kick ass scenery
🙌
曾经很熟悉的地方
Beautiful China ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
We agree!
I love China.
Thanks for your support!
太美了！美国西部的感觉！爱了爱了！我国要多宣传啊，不然国人都不知道中国有这种广袤壮阔的西部荒野
感谢美好反馈！期待你也有机会驾车驰骋在大西北
中國人口產業分佈不均、工時又長，一般人很難有機會這樣玩
@@seanming75 不ky会死啊
@@leonhang 欢迎欢迎呀，大马华人和同胞没区别了！！
Great drive in a wide open space. Did not know Gansu has desert areas. Thanks for showing us this rarely seen region.
Thanks for your kind feedback, Handyman
Good day!
Really it's an amazing place nd ur vdos add more charm to this drive ....lovely 💕
Thanks a lot 😊
Sanskriti pandey .. india is more beautiful than this..
@@Alexprivate1122 I know my country is very beautiful but apart from india other countries are also very adorable such as china , japan , south korea and other provinces too ...!!!😊
@@sanskritipandey6132 what are your thoughts about Afghanistan and Pakistan...?
@@Alexprivate1122 bro see I only talked about other provinces and it's ur mind whether u take the other provinces as pakistan , Afghanistan or any developed countries ...!!
Definitely got to see more of Gansu, I’ll spend 2 months in Lanzhou when I can return so hopefully can talk some friends into driving me to a few more places
Welcome, welcome!
壮哉我大甘肃！感谢播主的辛苦拍摄！甘肃的自然景观其实是十分多样的，沙漠其实只是一部分。如果能加上沿途的祁连山、天祝草原，还有乌鞘岭特长隧道就更完美了
下次还有机会去就拍！
@@WalkEast 好！如果从兰州开车出发往敦煌方向走，以上我说的这些都是沿途的景观
不错
Another amazing and informative drive! thanks Max. I wish I had your job and could travel to all these places :)
Sometimes please stop and take some spectacular photos of the sunset/sunrise and the landscape!
Great idea, friend
西北的天真蓝，视野宽广心胸开阔，觉得能长叹一口气😁。我因疫情居家好久了，手头无事时天热蝉鸣都让人烦躁，但我又害怕进入忙碌状态，那样时间飞快却觉得有点迷茫似乎被抛弃？?调整心态着实费时费力，倒是睡上好觉了嘿嘿。入秋后天凉雨多，人也慢慢静了。再次感叹天真蓝呀！
没关系，勇敢面对，见招拆招，享受生活啦，亲
@@WalkEast 谢谢，发现体重轻了的那天我就一扫郁闷开开心心了☺
@@user-ov6vr4cf4m 总还会有好事发生的🤝
很像美国中西部一大片沙漠的高速公路。拍摄得非常精彩又达到专业水平。赞👍
亲，你的美好反馈和能量注入带给我美好的一天，叩谢
美国西部沙漠中公路，路况应该没有这么好，而且应该是没有手机信号。
天气真好，一改黄土满天飞、人都灰头土脸的印象
嗯呐，天气好，心情也好
This remind me about nevada desert area mixed with arab or sahara desert
So beautiful but inhabitable
Thanks for taking us across the Gansu desert. You had quite the drive, going from the western edge of the province to central Gansu. Hope you got the chance to stop and take a look at the sites.
My old friend, thanks for your sweet feedback.
Hope you have a great day!
nice
Beutiful 😎😎🙏
Thanks, beautiful
@@WalkEast 😍😚
Too many cracks on the dessert road. It's a nice view, though. I have always dreamt of setting foot on China and ride on its hispeed trains and explore the country up to Tibet. So beautiful country!
It remind me Arizona
Great
Você estava na zona rural de Zhangye, certo amigo ? Muito bonito.
Sim, amigo, é a zona rural de Zhangye.
Obrigado!
谢谢你拍摄我的家乡，我是张掖人
荣幸
China is world's economic miracle...inspiration
Like driving to Las Vegas.
Kind of
Thanks for your interesting feedback
Kinda reminds me of driving in Nevada
I can understand the feel
I watched some movie scenes of Nevada
i love japani suohet koriya norhet koriya tayland vietnam china singapur butan relesinsep farendship..
this is world best berdership...
👏
苍茫的天涯是我的爱，预备，唱！
绵绵的青山脚下花正开，来，握个脚
😊👍
Love China 🇨🇳
Thanks, buddy
Road trip! Who's with me? Beep beep. 🚙😎
I'm with you, Denise!
I think if traveling on this track at night it must be very cold because of the desert
I agree with that, Bruno.
Very cold at night and very hot in the day
感谢你的影片。看了几部你的驾车影片，画面风景都很漂亮，但能感觉到你开车还挺急的。尤其是这回的几部西部的片子，有挺多危险超车和倔强的不让车。可能整体的开车环境是个因素，但真心劝你多一些耐心，看的观众也会更enjoy （好几次near miss 心都跟着提了起来）
衷心感谢你的金玉良言，看得出你还特地注意了措辞和语气，以便让对方更好的接受，你在生活中一定情商很高且善良，我一定注意，确实血气方刚了点，也祝福你好人一生平安🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love Japan
I love China
I love south Korea
I love north Korea