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Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

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15 Days Northern Xinjiang Grand Tour Itinerary

Day1:Urumqi arriving

Transportation: at the airport

Hotel: Urumqi

Restaurant: D

International Bazaar appreciate the local flavor.

Day2:Urumqi/Heavenly lake/Urumqi

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Urumqi

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast, today's destination is the 5A scenic spot Tianshan Heavenly lake Scenic spot (including tickets + shuttle bus). You can visit the distant snow mountains, the green lake, and the surrounding spruce.

After getting off the shuttle bus, you can choose to walk to Heavenly Lake, or to take the battery car. After arriving the lake side you can take a cruise to visit the scenic, sure you can climb to the highest point of the mountain by ropeway, from there overlooking the whole beautiful view of the Heavenly lake. And then return to Urumqi to the hotel.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day3:Urumqi/S21/Colorful Bay/Burjin

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Burjin

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast head for Burjin. Along the S21 desert road to the destination - "Colorful bay scenic spot" including tickets. Lunch is served on the way.

After arriving at the "Colorful Bay" scenic spot around 18:00-19:00 in the afternoon and enjoy the beautiful sunset here. The sun is setting, the sun is shining on the five-colored mounds, the colorful colors, and you can enjoy the Irtysh River, the only river that flows into the Arctic Ocean in China.

Then return to Burjin hotel, in the evening you can go to the Burjin River bank night market to taste delicious grilled wild fish, drink the local famous drinks - Gvas. (There are more mosquitoes in the colorful Bay, and you can choose not to go or prepare for special mask)

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day4:Burjin/Kanas Scenic Area/Jiadengyu

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Jiadengyu

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast, take the bus to Kanas Scenic Area (including ticket + shuttle bus), arrive at the entrance of the scenic area, transfer to the shuttle bus to enter Kanas Scenic Area, visit Shenxian Bay, Wolong Bay, Moon Bay, Yeze Lake.

Kanas Lake is the deepest freshwater lake in Xinjiang, the water level is about 1300 meters above sea level, the depth is 188 meters. Go to take cruise boat to enjoy the scenery of Kanas Lake. You can take the shuttle bus to the Fish viewing platform (we need book in advance) to challenge the 1068 steps of the brave road, climb to the fish viewing platform can overlook the panorama of Kanas, to explore the trace of Kanas lake monster.

After the tour, go down to Jiadengyu hotel.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day5:Kanas/Hemu village

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: log cabin

Restaurant: BLD

Get up early and go to Hemu scenic area (including tickets + shuttle bus), through the original birch forest, the Irtysh River. Hemu is known as the God's private land, which is also one of the eight major photography places in the country.

Hemu Village is a beautiful primitive village surrounded by snow-capped mountains, birch forests and rivers. You can take pictures by the Hemu River, and you can go to the viewing platform to enjoy the panoramic view of Hemu.

We will arrange Tuva family visit for you to learn the customs of the 57th ethnic group. In the evening, experience the original wooden house for one night.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day6:Hemu/Urho/Karamay

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Karamay/Kuitu

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast, drive to Karamay Urho District to visit Urho Ghost town, the filming site of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (including tickets + shuttle train), where you can enjoy the strange Yadan landform, like an ancient castle.

Stay in Karamay or Kuitun tonight.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day7:Kuitun/Sayram Lake/Qingshuihe Town

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Qingshuihe

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast in the hotel, today let's go to Sayram Lake (including tickets + around the lake driving), because driving around the lake need about 3 hours, there are 4 to 5 stops you can take photos and close to the water.

The platform of Genghis Khan will be the paradise of photography lovers, here you can have a good view of the Sayram Lake panorama.

Then head for visiting the famous Guozigou grand bridge from the bus, tonight we will arrive in Qingshui town and stay there for overnight.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day8:Qingshuihe/Yining City

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Yining

Restaurant: BLD

Set off from Qingshuihe town for Yining city the capital of Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, after two hours driving distance arriving in Yining city.

Visit six star Street, KazanQi folk culture tourism area, these two places are so interesting, I am sure you will be stopped by them and tonight you will stay in Yining City.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day9:Yining City/Narati

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Narati Town

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast, go to Narati Town. After arriving, take the scenic shuttle bus to enter the AAAAA scenic area Narati Scenic Area (including ticket + Air grassland shuttle bus).

Narati Grassland is one of the four major grasslands in the world, and it has been a famous pasture since ancient times. The beautiful grassland scenery combined with the local Kazakh folk customs has become a famous tourist resort in Xinjiang.

Today stay in the Narati town hotel.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day10:Narati Town/South section of Duku Highway/Kuqa

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Kuqa

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast, we will leave Narati town to Kuqa, take the southern section of the Duku Highway, and arrive at the Kuqa hotel to rest after passing the famous dragon pool scenic spots along the way.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day11:Kuqa city tour

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Kuqa

Restaurant: BLD

Early set up by car from Kuqa County to Kizil Thousand Buddha Cave. Kuqa County is the location of ancient Qiuci ancient country.

After lunch, drive to Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon, located in Kizilya, one of the nine major film and television bases in today's China.

After the tour, return to Kuqa City and check into the hotel.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day12:Kuqa/Luntai County Diverse Leaved Poplar Forest Park/Korla

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Korla

Restaurant: BLD

Early morning drive to Longtai County Diverse Leaved Poplar Forest Park including tickets, where there is the world's largest area, the most dense distribution, the best survival of the "Tertiary living fossils" - more than 40 million mu of natural poplar forest.

Populus euphratica is one of the ancient rare trees in Xinjiang. Because it has an amazing ability to resist drought, wind and sand, salt and alkali, can survive and reproduce in the desert, so it is praised as the "three thousand years".

After the tour, return to Korla by car.

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day13:Korla city tour

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Korla

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast go to the south bank of Bostan Lake in Bohu County, Bazhou Lian Hai World - Ahongkou Scenic spot, which is called the Sea of love, the legendary West Sea.

About an hour's drive to the Bosten Lake scenic area, the water lilies in the Ahong estuary area of Lianhai World are the largest naturally growing water lilies in China. At the same time, Ahongkou scenic spot is the core scenic spot of the south bank of Bosten Lake.

At the end of the tour, go to Xihai Fishing Village - Dahekou Scenic Area, which is located on the west bank of Bosten Lake, is the entrance of Kaidu River Lake (Bosten Lake).

Heavenly lake+Kanas lake+Yili+Diverse leaved Poplar of southern Xinjiang 15 days tour

Day14:Korla/Urumqi

Transportation: Tourist Bus

Hotel: Urumqi

Restaurant: BLD

After breakfast head for Urumqi about 6 hours.

Day15:Urumqi departure

Transportation: at the airport

Hotel: -

Restaurant: -

After breakfast according to your flight time we will pick you up to the airport to catch your flight. We will say good bye to you, welcome you to come here again.

Travel itinerary

Tour length: 15 Days
Departure time:
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