D1: Departure, arrive in Urumqi
Travel:
Guangzhou-Urumqi (flights); Beijing-Urumqi about 4,000 kilometers (the train will take more than 40 hours)
live:
I Urumqi City, milling the gully near the bus station, there is a fruit guesthouse
I There is a fruit guesthouse near Mianzigou bus station in Urumqi city, (16 yuan per person for a four-person room), with six rooms and two bathrooms (even toilets, no need to distinguish between men and women) on each floor, which is quite clean, and there is hot water before zero o'clock.
II Mianzigou / Cold Storage Road opposite the Cotton and Maiden Company Guest House, standard room 35 yuan / bed (Mianzigou passenger terminal, supply and marketing hotel, Yangtse River Hotel is near the intersection)
D2: Urumqi
Line:
Urban buses are plentiful and easy to get to, but if not far away from the road, it is more conducive to the national flavor of the hiking. There are buses to all parts of the country from the Mianzigou coach station, but they don't run much each day.
Food:
Hand-held rice, mutton soup, roasted mutton, roasted whole sheep, in addition to all kinds of food about sheep, there are such as glutinous rice date cake, all kinds of barbecue, casserole, sweet soup and many other snacks.
Tour:
Tianshan Tianchi can go to the entrance of the People's Park with a group (leaving at 9:00 every day, returning to Urumqi at about 18:00 on the same day) - it is said to be the least worthwhile place to visit; Erdaoqiao, which is a big bazaar for the Uyghurs, and all the way to feel the rich ethnic flavor; museum (complete with dry bodies). It is recommended to visit the city for a day and to arrange for a chartered bus.
D3:. Urumqi-Wucaiwan-Kamster-Fuyun-Beitun-Burzin
Tour:
Jimusar-Qitai: Qitai General Gobi deep stone tree ditch, not far from Qitai Devil City. Kamster - Fuyun: colorful city, fire mountain. Beitun-Burjin: Butterfly Gully, late to the Erqis River to see the river view, along the way will see a large sunflower, not as good as seen later. Here is the most beautiful sunset of the whole journey! (If you take a shuttle bus, mill gully bus station 19:00, D4: morning to Burzin, and may not be able to see the scenery along the way)
Line:
At the station can be contacted chartered to Hanas (800 yuan / 4 people / 3 days, 1000 yuan / 4 people / 4 days), ready to go after the border guard card, the card is very convenient, 2 yuan / person, immediately can go. (Border guard pass, 10 yuan?)
Food:
Have a good meal, and then prepare three days of dry food, because the food in Hanas is too expensive.
D4: Visit Burzin River,Erchis River. Departure . Burzin-Homu.
The road is very difficult to walk, along the way large sunflowers and mountains full of various colors of wildflowers. The people on the road are simple. The houses here in Womu are very unique. The view of the river is good, and the back of the mountain can overlook the Wo Mu. The starry sky is beautiful. Dry food is the best choice. Drink horse milk, pure honey and so on. On the way, there are local people selling yogurt lumps and wild strawberries: the wild strawberries are as small as glass beads, but the flavor is sweet and sour.
Live:
The township guest house (20 yuan/person)
Live in the new travel lodge (satellite phone 0906-8191003), double room 50 yuan/person, this is the best hostel.
D5: WoWo-Hanas
Line:
Wake up early to enjoy the WoW in the morning mist, cross the wooden bridge to the back of the mountain overlooking the WoW. There are wild strawberries all over the place. Depart for Hanas before 12:00. On the way you can see Wolong Beach, Moon Bay, Duckbill Beach and other attractions, very beautiful. The scenery along the way is even better than Lake Kahu, one step at a time, take pictures to catch!
Lodging:
I Inn in Hanas village (15 RMB/person), but there is still about 40 minutes walk from the lake.
II Staying at resorts near the lake, on the other hand, can cost upwards of $60 per bed.
III stay in an optional felt room for $5 per person
Food:
Dry food prepared that day, of course!
D6: Hanas-Baihaba
Tour:
Take a boat to the opposite pier, climb the fish pavilion, the fish pavilion on the top of the mountain across the lake overlooking the lake, 4 hours, from the small road up the mountain is very easy to get lost, and farther more time-consuming, it is recommended to go up from the main road to the mountain. You should bring enough dry food and water, which are not sold on the mountain. After viewing the lake, go down from the back, where there are all kinds of beautiful wildflowers and lawns all over the place. Don't get lost! Baihaba village, the first post, the Sino-Russian border river; 21:00 to get to Burzin to see the sunset on the Irtysh River. Walking:
Hike to the Fish Watching Pavilion, more than 2,000 stone steps, exhausting. Leave Hanas in the afternoon and get to Baihaba in the evening (if you can get to Burzin immediately at noon). Baihaba is a gorgeous fairy tale world: bright flowers and plants are planted in front of every house, wooden houses are painted in bright colors, and there is a large birch forest at the back of the village. On the other side of the hill is a surprisingly large white wildflowers
Live:
I White Haba: Habahe Hotel, four people in a room, 35 yuan / bed, public **** bathroom 24 hours hot water supply.
II Burzin - station hotel (10 yuan / person), there is a bathhouse nearby (2 yuan / person), usually open until 22:00, but if you say hello in advance, beg the boss, can be extended.
Food:
Burzin goes to the Riverbank Night Market in the evening to try snacks: kawas (beer wok, a special drink in Xinjiang, which I'm told is made of hops and honey, and smells great), grilled fish and barbecued meat.
D7: Baihaba - Burqin - Urhe (Ghost City) - (Kuitun)
Tour:
Baihaba back to Burqin on the way to see the spectacular Sino-Russian Boundary River, near Burqin you can see the huge wind power windmill group. Urho 3 kilometers of the Devil City, no tickets. At about 19:00, you can hire a tricycle which can sit six people for 20 yuan to go to Devil City. Devil City is a typical wind erosion landform. In the dusk is very spectacular, in this place can pick up the most beautiful stones in the whole of Xinjiang.
Food:
You can buy the best and cheapest watermelon 0.25 yuan/kg, cantaloupe 1 yuan/pc and more sweet than honey "yellow drunken fresh", here to miss the hard to taste, the same 1 yuan/pc.
Walking:
Accommodation can be bargained down to 5 yuan per person, or you can take a bus to Kuitun around 23:00 that night.
D8: Urho - Kuitun - Selimu Lake
Tour:
Watch the sunset, sunrise, the serenity of the Selimu Lake is the greatest enjoyment.
Travel:
Kuitun is just a stopover, the traveling time is about 7 hours.
Living:
Lakeside, you can rent a yurt for 15 yuan per person to get out of the wind and sleep; OR go a little farther and live with the locals to experience their lives.
Food:
Lamb headless, skinless and gutted 13 RMB/kg. Horseback riding 20RMB/hour . The best way to eat, live and rent a horse is to find a Kazakh, who is more friendly and honest.
D9: Serimu Lake - Yining
Tour:
Serimu Lake is the cheapest and best place for horseback riding. Yining is the most watery place in Xinjiang, and also the place where Kazakhs live. The Yining River Bridge allows you to view the Yining River, but it depends on whether it is in flood season or not, if it is not, it is more general. Sunset over the Yining River, and at night you can go to the People's Square. You can go to the Yining Bridge to watch the sunset.
Walking:
Departure in the afternoon, by 4 hours to Yining
Living:
Living in Yining preferred Guangyuan Guesthouse (walk into the station opposite the right side of the road for about 30 meters), convenient and cheap (bargaining up to 10 yuan / person), clean, you can take a bath and more restaurants nearby
Eating:
Yining has the famous big dish of chicken, rice! Cheap.
D10: Yining - Zhaosu - Xatai Scenic Area - Wusun Mountain summer pasture - Xinyuan - Nalati Grassland.
Tour:
Visit Yining, do the border license to Xiatai. Afternoon, depart, Yining-Nalati (Scenic Area). You can visit Gongnais Forest Park, located in Bayin'guoleng Prefecture, Hejing County, in the upper reaches of the Gongnais River, is where the Gongnais Forest, 1600-2400 meters above sea level, snow-capped mountains reflecting the lake, full of wild pines and wildflowers. After breakfast in the hotel, we will shoot the natural scenery of Chatmuzat Canyon all day long.
Live:
Lodging in Narathi only 10 yuan / person; Narathi town, live in the source hotel, standard double room, triple 15 yuan / person (off-season discount).
D11: Nalati-Bayinbruk
Walking:
Take a bus to Bayinbruk, and in the afternoon to Bayinbruk town, and then (chartered bus) to the Swan Lake Nature Reserve.
Tour:
Although we stayed in the car all the time, the scenery along the way is not to be missed. (16:45 Santana car to Swan Lake (Beijing Jeep chartered 150 yuan, package you see the swans, in fact, anyone can see), out of town. To the south 2 kilometers turn east, tourist toll station has no one to guard, save 50 yuan / car. 18:30 to reach the white house (tourist reception station). At the fence there is a Mongolian collect money (tourist reception station people have withdrawn, at this time is indiscriminate charging), to 10 yuan / person, the car went up to 50 yuan, we 4 people 30 yuan to get it done. Walking up the mountain, 17:05 to reach the top, looking around, the southwest side of the mountain is the famous Nine Curves and Eighteen Bends, the south side of the distance is the rolling snow-capped mountains, under the mountain Hequ wetland cattle, sheep, horses grazing, swans in the playful flight. We waited to shoot the sunset, 20:00 sunset is very beautiful, the nine curves and eighteen bends is very bright. 20:30 to go back, 22:00 finally back to Bayinbruk town).
Live:
I TV tower hotel, only 10 yuan / person, free hot water bath, the boss and the waiter are very kind. (Another version is as follows:)
II TV Station Guesthouse, 35 yuan/person for a double room, too expensive, we stayed at the Old Horse Hui Min Hotel by the crossroads, 15 yuan for a double room.
Food:
Eat at the Viennese restaurant, naan, grilled lamb kebabs, mutton soup.
D12: Bayinbuluk - summer pasture - Kuqa
Tour:
Bayinbuluk to the Kuqa area has a unique "red mountain" landscape, take the night train or midnight train, Kuqa - Kashgar. Stay on the train. In the morning, you can cross a large grassland (Bayinbuluk has the largest grassland in the whole country) to climb those beautiful unreal mountains, see a particularly bright wildflowers and green grass on the mountain, do not go over, because this is the sign of the swamp. After lunch you can return to Nalati to the summer pasture to go, the road scenery is first-class, enter in the afternoon. Inside the summer pasture, you can also feel the atmosphere of nomads. Along the Dukui Highway, you will cross the 3400m Tianshan Tiribayd Dashan, pass through the longest highway tunnel in Xinjiang with a length of about 2000m, and then descend sharply by 10km, you will come to the famous tourist attraction - Dalongchi, which is located in the valley of the Kucha River. The southward journey along the Dukhuk highway leads to the Kizilaya Mountain, which means "Red Cliff" in Uyghur, and is characterized by jagged rocks, like thousands of horses and armies. Enter in the evening. Enjoy the year-round climate. The ancient name of Che is "Guzi", there are a thousand Buddha caves, beacon tower, Kramazi ancient city.
Travel:
A full day's drive along the Dukku Highway to Kuqa. Arrive at Kuqa at 20:00-20:30 in the evening. Take the night bus or midnight train, Kuqa-Kashgar. Stay overnight in the car.
Food:
Apricots are famous throughout the country, and the lamb kebabs are especially fat and made in a slightly different way from other places.
D13: Kucha - Kashi D14, 15 Kashi
Tour:
Operate the border pass to Karakuli Lake. Buy bus ticket . Buy dry food . Sightseeing in Kashgar.
To do the border pass place: 1. Kashgar City Public Security Bureau: People's East Road No. 64 0998-2822048 (3041); 2. Kashgar Border Detachment: color full Road No. 64 0998-2825201. Shish colorful full Road District Public Security Office to do the border pass need to have a proof of their own pass 10 yuan, you can find the local travel agency on behalf of do it.
Tour:
Visit the Etigarh Mosque, the Tomb of the Princess of Fragrance and the famous Grand Bazaar (Sunday the most lively), the evening in the hotel there are songs and dances Kashgar is a first-class ethnic flavor of the big city.
It is best to arrive in Kashgar on Friday morning, immediately go to the Kashgar Regional Border Guard Bureau to do the border pass to Tashian (Saturday and Sunday morning can also), then in the afternoon to catch the 1:00 start of the Great Worship, Saturday in the city tour of the Tomb of the Princess, Sunday noon to stroll the Grand Bazaar, the evening to the square in front of the fountain. It is a 20-minute walk from the Kashgar Transportation Hotel to the Aitiga Mosque, which has a daytime entrance fee of 6 yuan. From the traffic hotel to Xiangfei tomb Xiali cab one-way 10 yuan, Xiangfei tomb ticket 15 yuan.
Aitigaer is one of the country's three major mosques, there is a "wheat plus" called, every Friday at 1:00 pm is the time to hold its great worship, this time the temple every inch of the land are pious male worshippers occupy, and women are never allowed to go in. There is no gender discrimination, except that female visitors are not allowed to dress too revealingly. If you want to take pictures of Muslims worshipping, you have to ask the imam for permission, and you can't be in front of or to the side of the worshippers. Women are not allowed to enter the mosque without permission.
Outside the temple is a large bazaar, although not as large as the Grand Bazaar, not many people, feel very good, which is more like decorative brassware rather than like daily necessities. Fragrant Princess Tomb, also known as Abahoga Tomb, is located in the northeastern suburbs of Kashgar, 5 kilometers Haohan village. There is no direct bus, so get off at the intersection and walk through a small village. The people of this small village are so simple that they even allow tourists to visit their houses. It's a good idea to take pictures of them.
On Sundays, the Grand Bazaar (the eastern gate of Kashgar) is crowded with people from all over the Kashgar region, especially at 12:00 noon, but because of too many people and the weather is too hot, tourists will be very dizzy. From the residence can walk all the way to the Bazaar, along the road more and more people, copper street, wooden street, buy naan stalls one after another, the Bazaar in the livestock bazaar, cloth market, knife market and so on, countless. Just look at not buy often difficult to enjoy the atmosphere, tourists often buy a few Xinjiang knife (which to Yingjisha produced knife is the best) as a souvenir, but remember to cut the price, otherwise you will find absolutely expensive. At the knife market, you can get your knives sharpened for $0.50 each. The copper plates and shawls here are very ethnic, but they are very expensive. Sunday night at 8:00 in front of the square there is a musical fountain, many Uyghurs will be in the water for fun, which is a luxury for a place where water is scarce, but the atmosphere of joy is so simple that it can touch everyone present. If you have time in the evening in Kashgar, go to Jack's Cafe, a tourist hangout next to the Sermon Hotel.
Lodging:
I In Kashgar, opposite the preferred station, Tiannan Hotel, 1st floor (3rd floor is more expensive), 4 rooms 10 yuan per person, free shower.
II Kashgar transportation hotel package standard room 80 yuan / room.
III its Nivak Hotel / color full hotel, these two are self-guided tours more famous hostels, many foreigners, 25 yuan / person, 4 people suite, 24 hours hot water supply.
D16: Kashi - Karakuli Lake
Tour:
About 15:00 to reach the lake, this time the climate is the most pleasant, you should seize the time to play, generally 21:00 (not sunset) after the lake began to chill. Lake is a mountaineering base, in front of the Gonggel Jiubie mountain, the right side is the dominant is the "father of the snowy mountains" Moustagh Peak, Lake is such as being the stars like the snowy mountains surrounded by all the snowy mountains. The lake can experience four seasons in one day, around 15:00 is summer, then into the fall, the night is winter, and at 12:00 noon you can see the real August frost. It's cold at Kahu, so bring plenty of clothes. Be sure to bring enough dry food. Kahu is the most beautiful lake in the whole trip.
Travel:
Kashgar to Mount Moustagh and Lake Karakuli, coach 33.40 yuan.
Lodging:
Karakuli Lake scenic area, the only two-story brick building of the four-person room 50 yuan / bed, Karakuli Lake scenic area ticket 20 yuan
Eating:
Meal is very expensive, vegetarian 25 yuan, a bowl of rice 5 yuan, beer 7 yuan.
D17: Stone Town
Tour:
Karakuli Lake, afternoon hitchhiking, Karakuli Lake-Tashkurgan. Stay in Tashkurgan, arrive in Tashkent around 17:00, you will have enough time to visit Stone Town and its surrounding villages and grasslands. Stone City is located in the north-east side of Tashkurgan County, the entrance fee is 8 RMB.
Walking:
Mustagh Mountain to Tashkurgan 90 kilometers, take a cab 60 yuan, every afternoon there is a long-distance bus passing, but the time varies greatly.
Live:
I traffic hotel package standard room 80 yuan / room, 24-hour electric water supply. Out of the hotel on the left hand turn 15 minutes to walk to the stone city, stone view is wide, is a good camera position to shoot the snowy mountain plateau.
II Kahu live in yurts (40 yuan/person)
III Tashkent live in transportation hotel (10 yuan/person)
D18: Tashkurgan-Kashgar
Tour:
Arrive in Kashgar in the evening, visit Kashgar. Tashkurgan back to Kashgar 300 kilometers, high-grade bus 60 yuan. There are buses back to Kashgar around 9 am every day. Back to the sky is almost dark, you can go to the street to buy some folk handicrafts, Kashgar's handicrafts of the most varieties, the lowest price, the most attractive is the musical instruments.
D19, D20: Kashgar - Hotan - Tazhong - Lantai or (Korla)
Travel:
Kashgar a lot of cars to Hotan, the travel time is about 10-12 hours; and then take a shuttle bus to Hotan across the desert highway, the end of Lantai.
Lodging:
You can stay one night in Tazhong, the desert is lovely at night, and you can also watch the sunrise and sunset quietly. Stay at Rotunda Hotel or (Stay: Transportation Hotel).
Tour:
Taklamakan Desert, the Sea of Death, the first largest desert in China and the second largest in the world.
D21: Korla - Turpan
Tour:
Boston Lake, Wutai - Korla (185KM) on the way to see China's longest inland river - the Tarim River, arriving in Korla in the afternoon, the tour of the whole of Xinjiang's first big lake - Lake Bosten, return to Korla
Tour:
Travel:
The night by K884 train, the next day morning Turpan. 21:07 take Y204 express train (hard seat 35 yuan, hard sleeper 77 yuan) to Turpan.
D22: Turpan
Tour:
Arrived in Turpan, pack a cab (250 yuan / day) tour Kanye Well (10 yuan), Jiaoha Old City (13 yuan), the Flaming Mountains Grape Gully (20 yuan), Berziklik Cave of a thousand Buddhas (22 yuan), Astana Tomb (10 yuan), the old city of Gaochang (13 yuan), the Sugong Pagoda (6 yuan) and other attractions (). According to the time, the pleasure of travel optional).
Line:
17:54 back to the train station to take the 343 train to Urumqi, 20:17 arrival, hard seat 11 yuan. If you only tour the Flaming Mountains, grape groove can not have to charter a bus, Turpan city has a special line of buses to go.
D23: Urumqi-Guangzhou (Beijing)