10-Day Xinjiang Tour to Narat Grassland, Kashgar and Sayram Lake

Attractions: No

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

When you arrive at Urumqi airport/train station, you will be met at the exit by a local driver holding a welcome sign with your name and transferred to your hotel in the city centre for check-in. Free to organise the rest of your day at your leisure.

Attractions: Sayram

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Yining

After breakfast, our guide and griver will meat you at the lobby, driving all the way to Yining. On the way, you will enjoy the scenery of the Sayram Lake, which is the highlight of today’s tour. Sayram Lake is Xinjiang's highest and largest alpine lake, "Sailimu" Kazakh for "wish", and Mongolian herders affectionately called him "Sailimu Nur", which means "lake on the mountain ridge".Sailimu Lake’s ancient name is "net sea", also known as the three Taiwan sea.

Attractions:Kalajun Prairie

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Tekes

Karajun Grassland, also spelled as Kalajun Grassland is an attractive tourist attraction integrating grasslands, forests, canyons, snow-capped peaks, lakes as well as peaceful villages. If you plan to visit Xinjiang and want to immerse yourself in the true nature and peaceful environment, don’t miss this beautiful place.

Then we drive to the Tekes known for being a planned community with a shape of a ba gua.

Attractions: Naraty Grassland

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Bayinbuluk

We'll head to the famous pasture Naraty Grassland with about 4-5 hours driving. River valley grassland water and grass, sheep and cattle everywhere, horses gallop, every year there are tens of thousands of tourists, photography enthusiasts, beekeeping workers gathered in the beautiful river valley grassland, enjoying the gifts of nature.

Naraty Air Prairie is as beautiful as in a poem or a picture. There are springs densely distributed here. Every year, from May to September, with flowers all blossoming out here and numerous herds gathering around, a great number of tourists domestic and abroad are attracted here. The Narat Prairie is also called “Deer Garden" in history and an ideal place for people of the pasture to exchange materials and hold cultural activities.

Attractions: Bayinbuluk Grassland, Swan Lake

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kupa

Enjoy the breakfast in the morning and head to explore another grassland scenery in Bayinbulak Grassland. The sky looks like just washed by the blue sea water, grass looks like a layer of green carpet, Yurts dotted the prairie, curved like an oil painting in the Bayanbulak prairie, the grasslands are rich in the smell of green grass in the air is pure and sweet, this is a natural oxygen bar, summer resort.

Then we are going to Swan Lake. The morning mist wreathed over the lake, a pure snow scene, swans floating in the mist shuttle, enjoy the happiness of hot spring. Like a cloud falling into the water, even at sunrise covered with a pale pink.

After visiting,we will drive you to Kuqa for rest.

Please note you will need special Xinjiang Travel Permit to Bayinbuluk which will be applied 4months in prior.

Attractions: Tianshan Great Canyon

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Train

After buffet in the hotel and we will head to our first step, Kizil Grottoes,  also known as Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves or Hershel Grottoes, Chinese Buddhist grottoes. They use rough and powerful lines, a sketch of the strong and robust bones, with the ochre colour, baked rich and rounded skin And then visit the Tianshan Great Canyon, which is very rich in tourism resources, there are rolling mountains and steep forests, holy snow-capped mountains and glaciers, mysterious primitive forests, vast valleys and grasslands, vertical and horizontal canyons and rivers, as well as rich nomadic customs,

Then we will transfer you to train station,then take the night sleeper train to Kashgar.

Attractions: Id Kah Mosque, Old Town, Handicraft street, Sunday Bazaar 

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

Upon arrival in Kashgar, drive you to hotel to check in.Today you will enjoy a full-day excursion of Kashgar. Pay a visit to Id Kah Mosque. The mosque was also an important institution for spreading Islamic culture and training talents in ancient times, training many Islamic clergymen and scholars, and other influential poets, literary scholars, historians and translators, which had a certain influence on the religious circles both at home and abroad.

Continue the visiting to Old Town at 10:30 with the open ceremony of Maxilap show. Come and join the exciting movement in this well-preserved Uighur residential area. Our speciality: Relaxing in the Hundred-years Tea house, taste the local rose tea and nang-bread!

Continue to visit Handicraft street, where you are are able to see dazzling jewellery, original pottery, unique musical instruments, and the end of the daily life experience of the locals.

Our next stop is the famous Sunday Bazaar drive to the bustling Kashgar Sunday market, which used to be a great place to meet locals, traders and travellers on the Silk Road. They will haggle in the sign language that is unique to their people. Today, there are still many locals who transfer their sheep and cattle to the local market for exchange.

Attractions: Karakul Lake

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Taxkorgan

Today we will head to Taxkorgan, a town in the far west of Xinjiang Province in China, bordering Pakistani, Tajik, and Afghani.This region is commonly known as the main road of the "old Silk Road" the main route leading from China to West Asia.

On the way, you can experience beautiful Karakul Lake. The lake is in the mountains in the environmental protection, the lake water and grass, often Kirgiz herdsmen stationed here. Karakuli Lake is one of the few highland lakes in the world. Every year in summer and autumn, is the base camp of mountaineering tourists, but also passing travellers to visit the place of excursion.

Stay one night and explore its peculiar folk customs of Tajik nationality. Taste snack and milk tea provided by local herdsman and spend your rest of day at leisure.

Attractions: Stone Fortress

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

Driving back to Kashgar. On the way, you will visit the Stone Fortress. The city was oval in shape, and the walls were constructed of bricks on sun-dried walls. Its outer circumference is 1,285 metres. 

Attractions: No

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Not included

After breakfast in the hotel you will have freetime to explorer this city by yourself. Thereafter, you will end your enjoyable tour in Southern Xinjiang, and catch the flight to your destination.