11-Day Best Xinjiang Tour: Kashgar Culture and Kanas 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: Xinjiang Regional Museum, Grand International Bazaar

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

Morning head to Xinjiang Regional Museum, where are many archaeological treasures of the Silk Road and Xinjiang's minority cultures. You will learn about the history of Xinjiang and its peculiar ethnic customs. Visit Grand International Bazaar where you can watch Uygur dance show and taste local delicacies.

Say goodbye to Urumqi, be transferred to take the flight to Kashgar. Upon arrival, pick up to check in the hotel.

Attractions:Id Kah Mosque, Old Town, Handicraft street

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

Today you will enjoy a full-day excursion of Kashgar. Pay a visit to Id Kah Mosque, the largest Mosque in China and the most sacred mosque for the locals to practise their Islamic activities at 09:00. 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, gathered hundreds of handicraft workshops, which has become a boutique exhibition for handicraft in Kashgar and Central Asia.

Attractions: Karakul Lake, Karakorum Highway

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

The tour starts with the nice buffet in the hotel, drives about 4hrs to Karakul Lake around 09:00.

After 1hr's driving, we will stop at Opal village for a rest where you may stroll around the local bazaar with the feeling of the traditional local lifestyle.

Continue to enjoy the majestic views of the Sand dunes, mountains, and sandstone valley along the Karakorum Highway, the Hindu Kush Mountains and the Himalayas. It is the world's tallest cross-border roads and most thrilling corridors.Trekking around the Karakul Lake with enjoy the magnificent landscape and the nomadic lifestyle of the local Kirghiz in their yurts.

Attractions: Sunday Bazaar 

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

Today, you will drive to Sunday Bazaar that is combined two section. Thecovered bazaar sells the clothing, nuts, household goods and many things out of your imagination.The outdoorAnimal Bazaaris the first bazaar we visit, where the farmers and buyers arriving by donkey cart, truck, bicycle, horseback, motorbike or on foot, with their animals. It's loud, lively and cheerful as they arrive. It is quite interesting to witness their typical methods of bargin.

In the afternoon, catch the flight to the capital city of Xinjiang- Urumqi. Met and greeted in airport be transferred to hotel. Relax with free time for the rest of the day.

Attractions: Five-colored Beach

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Burqin

After enjoying the nice buffet breakfast at the hotel, and then our professional tour guide will bring you to head to Burqin, wandering around and you can have best sight sightview at Five-colored Beach. Riverbank rock resistance to weathering ability is different, the outline will be uneven, and the rock contains different minerals, and into a variety of colors, so the name "colorful beach".

Attractions: Hemu village

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Burqin

Today we will take the coach to Hemu village, which is also known as the first village in China, the Scenic Spot is located in Burqin County, Altay District, about 30 kilometres east of Kanas Lake. It is an exquisite and unique wooden house village with a small bridge and magnificent scenery. Meanwhile, you can also experience the unique lifestyle of Tuvas, which is quite worth to visit.

Attractions: Kanas Nature Reserve

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Burqin

We have to start the tour in the early morning, and then drive along the mountain road to Kanas Nature Reserve. The whole area remains in a primitive state, with flat and boundless grasslands covering the land like a huge green blanket, wooden houses scattered, smoke rising from the cooking fire, and the aroma of milk wine wafting through the air.

 Later afternoon back to Jiadengyu district to check into the hotel. Dinner and rest.

Attractions: Urho Ghost City 

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Karamy

After breakfast, we will drive to Kuitun, travel along the Gurbantunggut Desert to the Urho Ghost City. Here is a typical Yadan landform. The giant stone columns on the Gobi are strange, like a yellow medieval castle, vicissitudes of life and some grim. And between the stone pillars, often the wind whistling, like a ghost crying, sounds creepy.

Attractions: Grand International Bazaar

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

Back to Urumqi and head to Grand International Bazaar. The most famous attraction is the Silk Road Sightseeing Tower in the centre of the square, which has colourful paintings and exhibitions on all floors, showing the historical stories of the Silk Road. It is a gathering place and exhibition centre for Islamic culture, architecture, ethnic commerce, entertainment and catering.

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.