Duku Highway: A Journey Through Nature's Epic

Duku Highway, like a silver thread stitching together the spine of the Tianshan Mountains, stretches between Ili and Kuqa, weaving snow-capped peaks, grasslands, canyons, and deserts into a fantastical epic. This is not just a road, but a masterpiece of landscapes, with every kilometer speaking a different language—one moment you're in a serene fir forest, and the next, you're deep in a red cliff canyon. Using altitude as its pen, it writes the marvel of four seasons occurring simultaneously; with the wind as its rhyme, it recites the nameless distant dreams in travelers' hearts. The 'Du' in Duku does not signify loneliness but a unique magnificence; the 'Ku' seems to store the earth's dreams of millions of years. Traversing it feels like having your soul remeasured by heaven and earth, stepping through snow and sunlight, all to meet yourself again at the next turn.