Northern Xinjiang Tour
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Day 1

Urumqi

Today you will take the international flight to get to Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, we will meet you at the airport, transferred to your hotel and the rest of the day is free for you to have a good rest,  make the good preparation for the Northern Xinjiang Tour. 
Accommodation: In Urumqi
 

Day 2

UrumqiHeavenly Lake  (120kms, 1.5hrs driving)
Heavenly Lake

Morning your guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel. Then driving to Fukang and visit the Heavenly Lake, a picturesque Alpine lake, 2000m up in the Tianshan mountain range. Heavenly Lake is a long and narrow gourd-shaped moraine lake, 3400 meters long, about 1500 meters wide, 105 meters at the deepest point, with an average depth of 40 meters, covering an area of about 5.9 square kilometers. There are eight beautiful scenic spots in the lake scenic area. 
Accommodation: In Heavenly Lake
 

Day 3

Heavenly LakeBeitun         (556kms, 7-8hrs driving)
Huoshaoshan

After breakfast, we will pick you up from the hotel lobby and drive to our next stop Beitun, enjoy the scenery on the way and pass by: Huoshaoshan (Burning Mountain), where you will witness a sea of red, caused by burnt rocks that look as if they are still burning along the hills. evening arrive in Beitun and transfer to the hotel, have a good rest.
Accommodation: In Beitun
 

Day 4

BeitunKanas      (229kms, 4-5hrs driving)
Kanas Lake

Morning breakfast at the hotel and then take you to Kanas Nature Reserve, China's only European-like ecological site that has been awarded the title of the "Pure Land of the World" due to its unspoiled natural scenery. En-route, visit Kanas Lake, the lake is located in the heart of the Kanas Nature Reserve. A notable feature of the lake is that the water changes its color with the changing of the seasons and weather. Within a single day, the water’s color may turn from green to blue, gray or white.
Accommodation: In Kanas
 

Day 5

KanasHemu   (150kms, 4hrs driving)
Hemu Village

After breakfast, we’ll take the coach to Hemu village, which is the one of the famous Tuvas village. You can experience the unique life style of Tuvas and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
Hemu village is one of the three residences of the Tuva Mongol in China. The Tuva Mongol is believed to have descended from the troops of Genghis Khan when he crusaded west. The Tuva Mongol of Hemu Village live in frame houses half-buried in the ground to resist the cold of winter. They believe in Buddhism and have well preserved the traditional beliefs of their tribe. Religious and traditional festivals are always jolly and busy, while the landscape tempts every visitor to come back to experience the wildness of nature.
Accommodation: In Hemu
 

Day 6

HemuBurqin      (170kms, 4hrs driving)
Five-Colored Beach

Enjoy morning fog in Hemu Village in the morning. After breakfast, drive down the hill to Burqin. enjoy the sunset of Five-colored Beach, Walk into the colorful Beach, you will feel as if in a dream world. The unique lava landscape consisted of purplish red, vandyke red, yellow and light green mudstone, sandstone and gravel. this is the most beautiful colorful Beach, masterpiece of nature, and miracle of Burqin.
Accommodation: In Burqin
 

Day 7

BurqinKuitun     (455kms, 5hrs driving)
Urho Ghost City

After breakfast, travel along the Gurbantunggut Desert to the Urho Ghost City, also known as Wuerhe Wind City", a unique wind-eroded geological area commonly referred to as "wind city" because of the frequent howling winds. Then continue journey to Kuitun, you will visit Anjihai Grand Canyon located around Anji Haihe River, northern slope of Tianshan Mountain. Here also is the paradise for the photographers.
Accommodation: In Kuitun
 

Day 8

KuitunYining       (446kms, 5-6hrs driving)
Sayram Lake

Morning breakfast at the hotel, then we will Take the excursion tour to Sayram Lake, known as the last drop of tears of the Atlantic. It is 93.6 kilometers southwest of the Bole City, on the north side of the Urumchi-Yining Road.Sayram in Kazak means “blessing” while in Mongolia means “lake on the mountain ridge”.The lake is the largest alpine lake in Xinjiang and lies at the highest altitude,with a height of 2,072 meters above sea level. Later on, we head to Guozigou Valley, which is length of 28km along the road Wu, the general direction in Iraq, is the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, North Road.   
Accommodation: In Yining
 

Day 9

YiningZhaosu     (180kms, 4hrs driving)
Zhaosu Cole Flower

Breakfast at the hotel, we will meet you at the hotel, then we will drive to Zhaosu County, haosu County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Todo Mongolian as Mongolküre County, is a county situated within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 10,455 km². on the way, you can enjoy the scenery of Zhaosu Cole Flower, and the Grassland.
Accommodation: In Zhaosu
 

Day 10

ZhaosuNaraty    (300kms, 5-6hrs driving)
Naraty Grassland

Enjoy the sunrise in the morning and after breakfast take a short trekking in the forest to enjoy the fresh air and then head to Naraty Grassland, it has been a famous pasture land ever since the ancient times, and there are wide river valley, high mountains, the crisscrossed deep gores, the flourishing forest and open grassland. It is crowned as “air pasture” and “garden highway”.
Accommodation: In Naraty
 

Day 11

NaratyYour Destination

Today you will be transferred to the airport to catch your flight to your next destination.


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