12-Day Xinjiang Tour to Narat Grassland and Kashgar

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: Heavenly Lake, Burning Mountain

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Fuyun

It may take 1.5 hours to entrance of the Heavenly Lake about 08:30. The scenery is like a fairyland. The scenic area encompasses alpine lakes, wetland meadows, forest canyons and other natural landscapes, and in 2013, the scenic area was named a National Geopark by the state.

Then drive to Fuyun county. On the way, you can enjoy the stunning 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.

Attractions:Keketuohai National Geological Park, the Tunnel of Mine No 3, Earthquake Museum

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Burqin

Your adventure begins with a welcome meeting in the hotel lobby and you will start your trip from Keketuohai National Geological Park. It is a large-scale tourist attraction with beautiful canyons and rivers, rocky mountains and woodlands, mineral resources, frigid lakes and strange seismic fracture zones as its natural scenery, integrating geological culture, regional characteristics and ethnic customs, and featuring sightseeing tours, leisure and vacationing, special tours (hiking, photography, etc.), and scientific investigations.

Then you will see "Haizi Kou" and explore the Tunnel of Mine No 3, which comprises of many types of minerals. Take a tram ride and travel along Irtysh Grand Canyon till you reach Shenzhong Mountain and visit the "Earthquake Museum". Thereafter, travel to Burqin for dinner and overnight stay.

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: 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: Tianshan Great Canyon

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: Urho Ghost City 

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kuitun

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: Anjihai Grand Canyon, Grand International Bazaar

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

Enjoy your breakfast the hotel, on the way travel to Anjihai Grand Canyon. The Andijai River originates from the Tianshan Mountains, through years of scouring, in the vicinity of Tonggut washed out of the Tianshan Valley, in the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains under the formation of a large-scale impact fan, the impact fan of the valley of the magnitude of the umbrella shape to the north, belonging to the geological wonders.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: Kuqa Mosque, Kuqa Old Town

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kuqa

Today we will take the moring flight to Kuqa. and bring you to visit the Kuqa Mosque upon arrival, which is the second Mosque in Xinjiang. Stroll around Kuqa Old Town will make you have an unforgettable memory.

Attractions: Poplars Diversifolia Park

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kuqa

After breakfast, our driver will take you down to Luntai County. Today you will have a full day trip to visit the magnificent view of Poplars Diversifolia Park. The Uyghur language calls the poplar Tokelak, meaning "the most beautiful tree". Because of its amazing ability to resist drought, sand and salinity, and its ability to survive and reproduce in the desert, it has been praised as the "hero tree of the desert".

Return to your hotel and have a good rest!

Attractions: Kizil Grottoes, Tianshan Great Canyon

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kuqa

After buffet in the hotel and we will head to our first step, Kizil Grottoes, which has long history and heavy cultural and artistic background. Kizil Grottoes murals, both influenced by Han culture and foreign cultures And then visit the Tianshan Great Canyon. Scenic area 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.

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.