Learn about Xinjiang
Kanas
Kanas is a comprehensive nature reserve consisting of high mountain lakes, rivers, forests, and grasslands located in Burqin County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. It is known as the "fairyland of the human world and the backyard of the gods", renowned for its mysterious legends of lake monsters, changing lake colors, and stunning primitive natural scenery. It is one of the top natural landscape destinations in China.
Sairam Lake
Sairam Lake is located in Bole City, Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. It is a high mountain lake in the western section of the Tianshan Mountains. It is known as the "last tear of the Atlantic" and is the largest and highest high-altitude cold water lake in Xinjiang. It is also one of the clearest lakes in China.
Duku Highway
The Duku Highway is not an ordinary road, it is a geographical wonder corridor in the hinterland of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, and also a heroic road paved with the lives of 168 road building officers and soldiers. It is known as the "most beautiful highway in China" and the "landscape road that runs through the backbone of the Tianshan Mountains", and is a "must drive" in the hearts of countless self driving enthusiasts
Nalati
Nalati is not a flat grassland, but a three-dimensional interweaving of snow capped mountains, spruce trees, meadows, and river valleys called the 'Sky Kingdom'. It is the beauty responsibility of the Ili River Valley and the most mature and comfortable "top student" in Xinjiang grassland scenic spots. For those who take the Duku Highway, it is an unavoidable transit station and also an insurance option for you to pay for "certainty" - the lower limit of the scenery is very high, and you will hardly be disappointed
Hemu
If Kanas is a magnificent symphony, Hemu is a wooden flute solo that plays on time in the morning - quiet, ancient, and straight to the heart. It was rated as one of the "Six Most Beautiful Ancient Towns in China" by China National Geography. There is even a saying in the photographic circle: "The essence of Kanas lies in Hemu, and the soul of Hemu lies in the morning fog"
Bayanbulak
Nalati is a three-dimensional oil painting, with snow capped mountains, forests, and meadows squeezed together in one scene;
Bayanbulak flattened the earth palette, perfectly flat and wide, then twisted the entire Kaidu River into an S shape and casually threw it onto the green carpet. At sunset, the river reflects nine suns simultaneously - this is not a special effect, it's real.
Kashgar Old City
Kashgar Old City is a "living" millennium ancient city in the Western Regions, and also the only 5A level open style earthen architecture historical block in Xinjiang. It is not only a scenic spot, but also the homeland where tens of thousands of Uyghur residents have lived for generations, known as the "not to Kashgar, not to Xinjiang; not to the ancient city, not to Kashgar" reputation.
Heavenly Lake of Tianshan
Heavenly Lake of Tianshan, formerly known as "Yaochi", is a three-dimensional painting featuring a high-altitude glacial lake formed by over 2 million years of glacial action. It is a world natural heritage site, a national 5A level scenic spot, and a national intangible cultural heritage site of the myth of Queen Mother of the West. It is only 97 kilometers away from Urumqi and is the closest world-class mountain lake in Xinjiang to the metropolitan area. It combines the ethereal beauty of the "Queen Mother's Wonderland" with the thickness of Quaternary geological relics.
Ili river valley
The Ili River Valley is not an ordinary valley, it is a secret realm "specially embraced" by the Tianshan Mountains - the warm and humid air currents of the Atlantic Ocean take their last breath here, turning into the most abundant rain and snow in Xinjiang; Snow water converges westward to form the only Ili River in China that flows from east to west, chasing the sunset all the way towards Kazakhstan.
Turpan Flame Mountain
Turpan Flame Mountain is not an ordinary "mountain", but a crimson giant dragon lying horizontally in a basin - it is the hottest place in China and also the place where the story of Sun Wukong borrowing banana fans three times in Journey to the West takes place.
Koktokay
Koktokay is not a sea. It is the "Blue River Bend" and "Green Jungle" treasured by Mount Mount Taishan. It is also the place of meritorious deeds in the history of New China, which is codenamed with the mysterious code "111". Here, every mountain and water is a scroll, and every stone and mine is a national soul.
World Devil City
The World Devil City is not a "city", but a giant freshwater lake from the Cretaceous period 130 million years ago, transformed into a "Gobi plateau" after the vicissitudes of time, carved into a ruined palace with only the echoes of night and strong winds by billions of years of wind and sand - it is the most magnificent Yadan in China, and also the vast expanse where the Jade Dragon leaped down in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Kumtag Desert
The Kumutage Desert is the golden coda at the easternmost point of Taklamakan, and the only desert in the world that has embraced the oasis city "zero distance" for thousands of years. For thousands of years, the yellow sand has stopped at the southern end of Shanshan County, neither devouring human fireworks nor retreating halfway along the border, becoming an unparalleled wonder of "sand does not advance, green does not retreat".
Shache Ancient City
Shache Ancient City is a giant oasis on the banks of the Yarkand River that has survived from three thousand years ago to today. It was once one of the oldest city states among the 36 Western Regions, and also a holy place where the Twelve Muqam were shaped and decorated. There is no hustle and bustle of the ancient city of Kashgar here, but it preserves the most simple cultural heartbeat of southern Xinjiang.
Tarim Populus euphratica forest
The Tarim Populus euphratica forest is the world's largest natural Populus euphratica forest area, and is the last gathering place of "living fossils" on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert 130 million years ago. Here, there is a 3200 year old "Populus euphratica king", a sightseeing train that travels through the golden forest sea, and a time-space folding of Han Dynasty beacon towers and oil rigs across the sky.
White Sand Lake
Altay White Sand Lake is a "desert holy spring" hidden deep on the edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert, gently surrounded by sand dunes; It is not an unclaimed scenery in the natural wilderness, but the "first tear on the northwest border" condensed by the soldiers who have been guarding the country for half a century.
Pamir Plateau
The Pamir is the "mountain junction" of the Eurasian continent, where the five world-class mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Kunlun, Tianshan, and Hindu Kush pledge their allegiance. In Persian, it is called the "flat roof house", in Tajik it is called the "roof of the world", and Chinese history books give it the most poetic name: Congling.
Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon
The Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon is a wound torn apart by the uplift of the Tianshan Mountains on the seabed 140 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. It is the most vivid vermilion mark at the end of the Duku Highway, known as "Kezilia" (red cliff) in Uyghur language. It is listed as one of the "Top Ten Most Beautiful Canyons in China" by National Geographic of China, and locals prefer to believe that it is an unfinished masterpiece carved by a giant Kucha artist over billions of years.
Guozigou Bridge
The Guozigou Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge with a net height of 200 meters, suspended like a steel dragon over the Guozigou Gorge. It is the first highway double tower double cable plane steel truss cable-stayed bridge in Xinjiang and China. It completely liberated the Ili River Valley from the history of "heavy snow blocking mountains" and made itself the most prominent modern landmark in the sky of "the first scenery of Ili".
Qiongkushitai
Qiongkushutai is a living ancient Kazakh village located at an altitude of 1970 meters. It is the northern starting point of the Wusun Ancient Road, the only well preserved wooden architectural complex in the Ili River Valley, and a "fairy tale secret realm" forgotten by time in the folds of the Tianshan Mountains. The locals have a wonderful metaphor: if Karajun is the beautiful living room of the shepherds, then the Qiongkushi Terrace is the backyard they are reluctant to show off to others.