铁门关

Climbed it a couple of times before 2006. At the top is a statue related to a kind of "Romeo and Juliet" type story. You can climb to the top from the front or back. I've heard it said, "If you don't climb to the top you'll regret it; if you do climb to the top you'll regret it even more!" It's a lot of stairs and not really any shade along the way. I can't remember how long it takes to get to the top, but I don't think it was more than an hour?

到这里，丝路要塞铁门关，感觉不仅是绿荫环绕、关楼林立……最重要的是在爬过山、流过汗之后，你会与现实有超脱的距离，并深深体味到人生的大境界。

Nothing was more evocative in our trip to Xinjiang of the real old Silk Road than our visit to Tiemen Guan. An hour or so from Korla, it's not a big tourist site, but you can walk down the old oasis road beside the river probably as far as you like--we stopped about a kilometer in. It's a trail through the riverbed beside the mountains, and you can almost hear the camel train.

《铁门关烧烤》时值周六，和两三友人，至铁门关烧烤。铁门关乃丝绸之路要塞，其处地势险要，风景优美。闲暇之余，独寻幽静，怡然自得。