This is because the Narathi scenic area in order to protect the natural environment from the destruction of tourism development, tourism living area and landscape viewing area separate construction.
Nalati Scenic Area is located in the territory of Nalati Town, Xinyuan County, Yili Prefecture, with the upper reaches of the Gongnai Si River and the mountains on the northern slopes of the Nalati Mountains as the main scenic area, covering a total area of 800 square kilometers. Here both the unique western grassland scenery, but also retains the rich and simple Kazakh ethnic customs, is the national 3A level tourism scenic area.
Narathi grassland residents living in the Kazakh herdsmen, but "Narathi" is not Kazakh, but the Mongolian language, according to legend for the Mongol conquest of Central Asia left, meaning "the first place to see the sun". Legend has it that when Genghis Khan's western expedition, there is an army from the depths of the Tianshan Mountains to Ili, when the spring, the mountain is full of snow and wind, hunger and cold so that the army exhausted, do not want to go over the mountains, in front of the eyes is a flowery mangled grasslands, springs are densely populated, water murmuring, as if into another world, when the clouds opened up the sunrise, the soldiers could not help but yell "! Nalati, Nalati", from then on Nalati became a permanent place name.
Nalati grassland history, many deer, "deer park", "Western Waterways" in the "more deer, the proverbial deer circle" record. Until now, this place is still frequented by deer, yellow sheep, otters, foxes and other wildlife.
June to September every year, here grass, mountain flowers. The Kazakh felt houses scattered on the grassland are springing up, making the grassland more vibrant and energetic. The grassland festivals of Ili Prefecture and Xinyuan County are mostly held here.
Narathi grasslands are not only beautiful, but also a natural summer resort, even in the hottest days of the three volts, the night still have to cover a thick quilt, the so-called "early wear cotton jacket afternoon wear yarn, around the stove to eat watermelon," in the Narathi grasslands, the performance of the most obvious.
Be optimistic about the unique advantages of tourism resources in Narathi, in recent years, many companies inside and outside of Xinjiang want to invest heavily in the scenic area to build a large tourist life base. But the reporter saw in the tourist area, in addition to the previous construction of the two-story main building, other living facilities are environmentally friendly cabins and felt houses.
From 2000, Xinyuan County tourism department invited Shanghai Tongji University experts to draw the tourism area planning, and delineate the core protection zone, strictly prohibit the ecological protection zone for all kinds of engineering construction unrelated to resource protection. At the same time will also be some of the built tourist living facilities gradually withdrawn from the scenic area, to ensure that the scenic environment is not polluted.
At present, the only remaining resort in the scenic area is located in Gongnai Si River, covered in a poplar forest. Entering the gate of the resort, the face is a sculpture of a young Kazakh girl offering tea, the main body of the resort is a modern building, the foyer for the yurt style, but also built a Kazakh felt house and European-style cabins, night stay in the cabins, you can listen to the sound of the Kung Nai Si River that rushes leisurely into the dream.
Tourists within 3 kilometers of the resort can enjoy rafting, camping and hunting, mountaineering, river fishing, grassland gliding, horseback riding in the Tianshan Mountains, large-scale folkloric entertainment and other activities, and enjoy the various flavors of the grasslands of Narathi.
In June this year, the completion of the horse sports center and put into operation in Nalati-archery range is the scenic area of the original tourism projects. Quite Xinjiang national flavor of some of the horse movement - gripping sheep, girls chase, horse racing, etc. in the form of performance in front of the majority of tourists, and interested tourists can also personally experience the thrill of being an archer.
From the resort drive along the rugged mountain trails southbound, over the Kuokchok Mountain, is because of the average altitude of 2200 meters and is known as the "air grassland" of the Chapu River summer pasture. All the way up the mountains, pine waves, the car over the mountain pass, the field of vision is wide open, only to see the opposite Narathi mountain snow peaks towering, thousands of miles of grassland as straight as the main road, the Kazakh felt in the grasslands scattered, sheep like white clouds move slowly.
The general highway is to build the more straight the better, but the Narathi central scenic area of 18 kilometers of the trunk road but there are more than ten curves, curves, although not quite in line with the construction standards as a "highway", but the maximum protection of the flowers and trees along the way.
In order to prevent tourists trampling grassland, scenic highway on both sides of the beautiful scenery of the place to repair a few hundred meters long wooden trestles, wooden trestles from the ground about half a meter high, tourists along the trestles can be stepped into the grass deep in the photo, and trestles under the flowers and grasses have not been damaged in the slightest.
One of the wooden walkways is quite attractive. At the end of the wooden walkway about 10 meters, there is a bottom diameter of 46 meters, 6.5 meters high conical mound tomb - Usun ancient tomb. The mound tomb is one of the three major wonders of cultural relics on the Ili grasslands, with more than 900 of these ancient tombs from the Warring States period to the Yuan Dynasty spread around the Nalati grasslands alone.
The 30 million yuan investment in the Nalati Tourist Life Base began construction in September last year. The base is located north of the Narathi Tourist Scenic Area and covers an area of 209 acres. Construction projects include three-star tourist hotels, Kazakh folk customs garden, high-grade European-style villa area, national song and dance performance center and national sports arena and other facilities. After the base is completed and put into use, it will realize the complete separation of Narathi tourist scenic area and living area, and at the same time make the reception capacity of this scenic area increase more than 3 times.
From 1999 to 2003, tourists traveling to Nalati increased at an annual rate of 36 percent, and this year received 120,000 visits in just three months from May to July.
A total investment of 160 million yuan in the Nalati-airport has been from April this year to kick off the construction of the curtain. The airport is 60 kilometers away from the Narathi Scenic Area, which can be used for landing and taking off of large planes. Visitors to Narathi in the past, whether by car or by plane, generally from Urumqi first arrived in Yining city, and then by car to 200 kilometers away from Narathi. The construction of Narathi Airport will enable tourists to travel to the picturesque Narathi grassland as long as they take a few minutes by plane from Urumqi.