Duku Highway is a landscape avenue and shortcut connecting northern and southern Xinjiang. Travelers can cross the Tianshan Mountains, grasslands and canyons in the shortest distance, see the spectacular ups and downs of Xinjiang in a short time, appreciate the customs of Uighurs, Mongolians and Kazakhs, and have a panoramic view of the northern and southern Xinjiang.
As the Dooku Highway has become an online celebrity highway, it attracts a large number of tourist vehicles. At the beginning of each year and in the summer tourist season, the long queue of motorcades has also become a new landscape. Although the scenic promenade along the way is really attractive, it is still prudent to park at will on the roadside. There have been many accidents on the road because of stopping to take pictures. If you want to stop halfway to enjoy the scenery, you'd better choose to stop at the observation deck on the side of the road or on the road with spacious parking spaces. When taking pictures, always pay attention to passing cars.
Part of Dooku Highway is cliff and part is alpine frozen soil. You need to cross four boards by car, with grasslands, woodlands, snow-capped mountains and red canyons along the way, and you can experience spring, summer, autumn and winter in one day. Dooku Highway is only open to traffic a few months a year. Although it is a two-way two-lane pavement, due to collapse and damage, a few sections are often in a state of renovation, and there is a great possibility of encountering unexpected events such as circuit break or construction.
Bayinbuluke is an intermountain basin in the middle of Tianshan Mountain. This alpine pasture surrounded by snow-capped mountains is 2500 meters above sea level. It used to be a fertile grassland where Mongolian Turkic tribes settled when they returned to the east. Now it is the most popular stop on the Dooku Highway. If you are free, you can go north along the only road in town, climb the hillside with pavilions and overlook the wide Bayinbuluke grassland.