宁夏沙湖旅游区导游词

　　Tourists, Shahu is located between Yinchuan and Shizuishan, at theintersection of Yaoxi highway and Baotou Lanzhou railway, 56 kilometers awayfrom Yinchuan. Our tour bus starts from Yinchuan, about 1 hour to the scenicspot. Let me take this opportunity to introduce the general situation ofShahu.

　　Shahu is a new tourist attraction. It is named after the Wanqing desert inthe South and the thousand mu Pinghu Lake in the north. Relying on the naturalscenic spots and taking the lake and sand as the content, it has formed theunique style of Saishang tourism, which integrates the appreciation andparticipation, and has attracted a large number of tourists from home andabroad. The total area of Shahu Lake is 45.10 square kilometers, including 8.2square kilometers of lakes, 12.74 square kilometers of mobile sand dunes and24.16 square kilometers of marshes.

　　Perhaps some tourists would like to ask: How did Shahu Lake form? ShahuLake used to be a butterfly shaped depression in Xidatan of Yinchuan plain. Asearly as 407 ad, there were records of garrison here. After the founding of newChina, Shahu was assigned to Qianjin farm. In the autumn of 1958, mountaintorrents broke out, resulting in the breach of drainage ditches and a largeamount of water discharged into depressions, forming a lake with an area of morethan 10000 mu. Because the shape of the lake is very similar to a big Yuanbao,it is called Yuanbao lake.

　　In September 1989, Bai lichen, then chairman of Ningxia Autonomous Region,visited Qianjin farm. Attracted by the "sand color" of the lake, he proposed theidea of developing Yuanbao lake and establishing a tourist area. In 1990, Bailichen came here again. With the theme of Lake (Park) and sand (Hill), which aretwo unique resources of the scenic spot, he gladly renamed Yuanbao Lake Shahu.Since then, the construction of Shahu tourist area has begun. Since then, in aseries of activities organized by the National Tourism Administration, Shahu hasbeen promoted to the overseas tourism market together with the famous scenicspots such as Guilin landscape in Guangxi, Tianya Haijiao in Hainan andZhangjiajie in Hunan, becoming the second of the first batch of 35 trump touristattractions in China.