Today yo will go to the airport to check in for your flight to Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. You will be spending the night on the plane, which may be cold, so it is recommended that you bring warm clothing. We wish you a good night's rest.

Today you will fly to Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the largest of China's five autonomous regions (one-sixth of China's total area), with the largest number of ethnic minorities (47 in total), and a must-see city on the Silk Road.

Upon arrival, check into the hotel and take a rest.

Itinerary:Kashgar Old City - Old Teahouse - Id Kah Mosque - Handicraft Street

In the morning, we will apply for foreigner permits.

Visiting the Handicraft Street, a cultural ancient street with over 400 years of history. During the tour, we will make a special gift of a century-old teahouse, where you can experience the unique tea culture of the local Uyghurs, which has been featured multiple times on CCTV. Visiting the Id Kah Mosque, a large-scale Islamic building with a history of more than 500 years. The mosque consists of a prayer hall, a teaching hall, a gatehouse, a pond, and other buildings. The mosque door is made of yellow bricks with plaster seams and clear lines. The main hall of the mosque is over 160 meters long, with spacious corridors and eaves. The ceiling is decorated with exquisite wood carvings and painted patterns. During the grand Islamic festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the mosque square becomes a place where Uyghur people gather to celebrate. In front of the mosque square, local Uyghur elders sit together and chat leisurely, and many people fly pigeons.

The Kashgar ancient city is located in the center of Kashgar city, Xinjiang, with a history of 100 years. It is a representative of Kashgar and Uyghur classic culture and one of the famous tourist attractions in Kashgar and even Xinjiang. Most of the buildings in the old city are full of Islamic and Uyghur styles, and the streets are crisscrossed with a unified style, which is very suitable for taking pictures. Walking among them, visitors feel like they have entered a foreign land in Central Asia, which is very magical.

Itinerary:Pamir Plateau - Brenkou Sand Lake - Muztagh Ata - Karakul Lake

After breakfast, drive through the Gaize Canyon to Karakul Lake, a famous alpine lake at the junction of China and Pakistan. Along the way, enjoy the beauty of the Pamir Plateau and experience the Tajik ethnic style, known as the "mountain eagle" by local ethnic minorities. Beside the deep blue lake stands the majestic "Father of Ice Mountains", Muztagh Ata, and the beautiful Brenkou Sand Lake. This splendid scenery will surely be engraved in the hearts of every visitor. [Karakul Lake] is located at the foot of Muztagh Ata, known as the Father of Ice Mountains, 191 kilometers away from Kashgar. The China-Pakistan Highway passes by the lake, and it is not far from the base camp for climbing Muztagh Ata (a 5-hour hike or camel ride away). "Karakul" means "Black Sea" and is a glacial erosion and moraine lake. The water reflects the towering and mysterious Muztagh Ata, with snow-covered mountains and the same color of mountains and waters, creating a very charming scene.

Itinerary:Golden Grass Beach Wetland - Stone City

After breakfast, visit Golden Grass Beach, located on the east side of Taxkorgan County, on both sides of the Taxkorgan River, covering an area of 20 square kilometers. It is a wetland on the Pamir Plateau. Because the Taxkorgan River flows through here, the area is rich in water and grass, with cattle and sheep everywhere. It blends beautifully with the distant snow-capped mountains, white clouds, and blue sky.

Stone Citadel is a famous ancient city ruin on the ancient road in Xinjiang. The castle is built on a high hill, and the situation is extremely precipitous. There are multiple layers of intermittent city walls outside the city, and the stone hills overlap between the partition walls, forming a unique stone city scenery. During the Han Dynasty, this was the royal city of Puli, one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions. After the Tang Dynasty unified the Western Regions, there was a Congling guard station here. In the early Yuan Dynasty, major construction projects were carried out to expand the city, and the old stone city took on a new look. In the 28th year of Guangxu, the Qing court established a Puli hall here to repair and supplement the old city. In 1954, it became the capital of Tajik Autonomous County.

Itinerary:Xiang Fei Yuan

After breakfast, head to Xiang Fei Yuan, located in Hao Han Village, 5 kilometers east of Kashgar City. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in the autonomous region. This is a typical Islamic ancient building complex and the tomb of Islamic holy descendants, covering an area of 2 hectares. It is said that there are 72 people of five generations of the same family buried in the tomb (actually only 58 tombs of various sizes are seen). The first generation is the famous Islamic missionary Yusufuo Huojia. After his death, his eldest son, Apake Huojia, inherited his father's missionary work and became a famous master of the "Yichan sect" of Islam in Kashgar during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He once won the regime of the Yarkand Dynasty. He died in 1693 and was also buried here. Because his fame surpassed his father's, people later called this tomb the "Tomb of Apake Huojia". Legend has it that among the descendants of Huojia buried here, there is a woman named Yipaerhan, who is the beloved concubine of Emperor Qianlong. Because she has a constant scent of sand jujube flowers, people call her "Xiangfei". After Xiangfei died, her sister-in-law Su Dexiang escorted her body back to Kashgar and buried her in the Tomb of Apa Huojia, so people also call this tomb "Xiangfei Tomb". Then head to Aksu. Arrive at the hotel after dinner.

Itinerary:Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon

After breakfast, take the car to the middle part of Tianshan South Road, known as Guezi in Han Dynasty, is one of the thirty-six countries in the western region, historically, the Han Dynasty had set up the Western Regions Capital in this area, and in Tang Dynasty, both Anxi Capital and Guezi Capital were set up in this area, which is the key point of the tourism in South Xinjiang. Kuqa was also the capital of the Guzi State during the Western Han Dynasty.

Afterwards, we will take a bus to the Mysterious Tianshan Grand Canyon (Native of West). That is a canyon in the Kizilian Mountains, a branch of the Tien Shan, consisting of reddish-brown rocks eroded by wind and rain over hundreds of millions of years." The reddish-brown mountains rise straight up into the sky, and under the sunlight, they look like a cluster of burning flames. The charm of this place lies not only in its majesty and steepness, but also in its depth, serenity and mystery. Standing at the bottom of the valley and looking up at the mountains, you feel that the steep peaks seem to press down at any time, and feel the nature's ingenious workmanship, which is admired by those who have been there. Hiking the Grand Canyon, you can enjoy the strange scenery of the canyon.

At night, we will fly to Yining, and check in the hotel after arrival. 

Itinerary: Nalati Grassland

After breakfast, we will head to the Narati Grassland, also known as the (West) Gongnaisi Grassland. In the Mongolian language of the Oirat tribe, it means "green valley" (during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, this area was the pastoral land of the Oirat Huite tribe). In Kazakh, it is called "Baiyangpo". Located in the eastern part of the Nalati Town, Xinyuan County, Ili Prefecture, Xinjiang, approximately 110 kilometers away from the county seat of Xinyuan, it is a mid-mountain grassland developed on the Tertiary paleo-pluvial deposits on the northern slope of the Nalati Mountains. The Narati Grassland is one of the four major grasslands in the world, specifically a subalpine meadow plant area, and has been a renowned pasture since ancient times.

Itinerary:Kungnai River - Six Star Street - Russian Ice Cream

After breakfast, transfer back to Yining via Kunes River. Upon arrival, go to Liuxing Street: it is an old neighborhood in Yining City, Yili Prefecture of Xinjiang, a city in the south of China, which was built in the mid-1930s (1934-1936) according to the concept of six policies (anti-imperialism, pro-Sovietism, equality of nationalities, peace, construction, and cleanliness) implemented by the Xinjiang Provincial Government at that time, and planned and designed by the German engineer, Mr. Vasily. The plan of the block is circular, with six main roads radiating outward from the center, dividing the block into six fan-shaped areas, with schools, stores, mosques and other public buildings in the center and residential areas on the periphery, forming a unique residential pattern. It is an original large-scale humanistic scenic spot mainly reflecting the folk customs of Ili Uygur, and is the image window of Yining and a national 3A-level tourist attraction, where you can experience the rich "Xinjiang flavor" by eating, traveling, touring, purchasing, and entertaining.

Special Arrangement: taste the famous ice cream.

Itinerary: Sayram Lake - Guozigou

After breakfast, go to visit Sayram Lake, which is known as the most beautiful pearl in Asia. The scenery here is breathtaking, with the turquoise blue lake surrounded by snow-covered mountains and the yellow wild chrysanthemums on the prairie seeming like a carpet of woven flowers. Shepherds grazing leisurely in the distance, all these are just like an oil painting presented in front of you. In the afternoon, go to Dushanzi. After arrival, check into the hotel and take a rest.

Itinerary:Urho Ghost City - Thousand Oil Wells - Colorful Beach

After breakfast, we will go to Urhe Ghost City, which is civilized in the world. Three kilometers southeast of Urle Township in Karamay City, there is a unique wind erosion landform, which is named as Wind City, and it is customary to call it "Ghost City". Circle of about 10 square kilometers, the ground elevation of about 350 meters, according to the investigation of about 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period, this is a huge freshwater lake, the lake shore growth of dense plants, and then after two big crustal changes, the lake into a sandstone and mud plate sandstone and land sea, geology called it "Gobi Terrace". Millions of years, due to wind and rain erosion, the ground formation of varying depths of gullies, exposed stone layer was carved by the wind in strange shapes, in the undulating slopes, covered with blood red, blue, white, orange and yellow stones of various colors, like the witch beads, adding a few more color of God's secret, the inner city is located in the mouth of the wind, the wind in all seasons. Whenever a gale Joe to come, yellow sand covering the sky, the wind in the wind city stirring back and forth, harsh whistling, as the ghosts cry, " Ghost City" so the face of the name. -Can be called a natural museum.

On the way, visit the oil field operation area known as "Thousand Wells", where the machinery is constantly operating, moving and shaking in a spectacular and interesting scenario. Go to "Wucai Beach" - shortlisted in the "magical Northwest 100 Scenery", due to the different minerals contained in the rocks, the illusion of a variety of different colors, named "Wucai Beach". Afterwards, return to the hotel and check in. After dinner, visit the night fish market.

Itinerary:Homu Village - Homu River - Observation Deck

After breakfast, go to Hemu Village (take the interval car) all the way to the beautiful scenery, can be compared with the United States Yosemite National Park and the Swiss Alps National Park landscape, a little bit not inferior, even think more a point of tranquility and simplicity, surrounded by mountains, at the foot of the mountain is made up of spruce, fir, red pines and other precious trees Siberian taiga forests, reckless, majestic and spectacular. It is majestic and spectacular. Looking into the distance, there is the perennial snow of Friendship Peak, the main peak of Altai Mountains, which glitters under the sunlight. Gazing and listening, the mountain forests, pine waves, babbling brooks, more eagles circling, in this place, let a person feel infinitely cozy and leisurely. And then go to Jadenyu to check in the hotel.

Itinerary: Kanas Scenic Area - Moon Bay - Lying Dragon Bay - Sacred Bay
After breakfast, drive to the National Kanas Natural Landscape Reserve (including the shuttle bus); on the way, visit the Ertix River, the only river in China that flows into the Arctic Ocean, with a total length of 2,969 kilometers. Later, pass through Lying Dragon Bay, Moon Bay, and Sacred Bay. "Moon Bay" gets its name because this section of the Si River looks like a crescent moon. When looking down from a high place, the turquoise river water stretches as far as the eye can see and divides the continuous birch forest into two parts. Along the way, admire the grandeur and beauty of the "Golden Mountain" - Altay Mountains, and the natural scenery of the "Silver Water" - Ertix River. The lush water and grass, flocks of cattle and sheep, and Kazakh yurts are scattered like stars on the boundless grassland, presenting a picturesque scene. Then drive to Kanas Lake, which is located in Burqin County and is an alpine lake in the dense mountains.
After the tour, return to Burqin.

Itinerary: S21 Famous Desert Highway - passing by Wulungu Lake - Ertix River - Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar

We will traverse the Gurbantunggut Desert in northern Xinjiang and take a coach to pass through the S21 famous desert highway. Along the way, we will admire the magnificent desert scenery and head towards Burqin, passing by the magnificent Wulungu Lake.

After arriving in Urumqi, we will visit the Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar! The Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar was completed on June 26, 2003. It is the largest bazaar in the world (in Uyghur, it means bazaar or farmers' market). Integrating Islamic culture, architecture, ethnic commerce, entertainment, and catering, it is a gathering place and display center for Xinjiang's tourism products. It serves as the "Window of Xinjiang", the "Window of Central Asia", and the "Window of the World". In 2004, it was selected as one of the "Top Ten Buildings" in Urumqi. With a strong Islamic architectural style, on the basis of covering the functionality and modernity of the building, it recreates the prosperity of the ancient Silk Road and centrally reflects the rich ethnic characteristics and regional culture of the Western Regions.

Itinerary: Urumqi - Heavenly Lake of Tianshan (Tianchi Lake) - Urumqi

After breakfast, take a car and head to the Heavenly Lake of Tianshan . The Heavenly Lake is located on the northwest mountainside of Bogda Peak, the highest peak of the East Tianshan Mountains. It is a high mountain barrier lake with an altitude of 1,980 meters, formed by the converging melted snow water of the Tianshan Mountains. Standing on the shore of the Heavenly Lake, the snow-capped Bogda Peak across the lake is clearly visible. Walking beside the clear blue water, under the blue sky and among the snow-capped mountains, one can feel extremely comfortable. It is an excellent place for summer heat escape and winter cold avoidance. Taking a boat (included) to cruise in the lake here will bring a unique charm.

After breakfast, you can have some free time. After that, you will be transferred to the airport and return to your warm home.