8-Day South Xinjiang Private Tour of Urumqi Turpan 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: Toyuq village, Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, Flaming Mountain

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Turpan

After breakfast, drive to Turpan. On the way, visit Toyuq village, located in the centre of the Flaming Mountain Canyon. The village consists of four parts: canyon scenery, mazar tombs, and ancient buildings of the ancient village. After finishing there, we will visit the Jiaohe Ruins, one of the best-preserved ancient sites in China, which was inscribed on 22 June 2014 on the World Heritage List.

Continue to visit Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, Berziklik Thousand Buddha Cave is the cave group with the largest number of caves and the richest mural content among the existing caves in Turpan, and is one of the larger Buddhist cave temple sites in Xinjiang. It is also the one with the highest specifications, which used to be the royal monastery of the Gaochang Huifeng Kingdom.

After that, drive to Flaming Mountain. Flaming Mountain is the most famous attraction in Turpan.It is mainly composed of reddish sandstone, conglomerate and mudstone from the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary periods of the Mesozoic Era.

After that, drive toTurpan for an overninght stay.

Attractions: Jiaohe Ancient City, Karez Well, Turpan Museum

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

In the morning, visit Jiaohe Ancient City. Walking to the centre of the main road of the old city, from the observation deck, in addition to the old city and the old village, ethnic characteristics of the building. Immersed in the long river of history of the Jiaoxie, only mottled and pale still hides a huge unsolved mystery.

Later, go to Karez Well. Because of the peculiar structure and extraordinary function of the Karez Well irrigation system, it has been attracting people's attention for a long time.

After that, drive to Turpan Museum. The northeastern corner of the museum is equipped with a sightseeing tower, with the curved outer wall inlaid with reliefs of four one-thousand-year histories of Turpan, which is magnificent.

Attractions: Xinjiang Regional Museum, Heavenly Lake

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

This morning after breakfast, you will be taken to have an educational visit to the Xinjiang Regional Museum. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum is a provincial-level comprehensive geography museum in China, and also an institution for the collection and protection of cultural relics and specimens, scientific research and publicity and education in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Leaving the museum, you are going to explore the Heavenly Lake. 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. Scenic spots in the area between the various attractions, are connected by trestles, can be reached on foot.

After the landscape trip, take a park bus to exit the park, and drive back to Urumqi.

Attractions: Abakh Hoja Tomb Id Kah Mosque, Local Bazaar, Handicrafts Street

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

This early morning, you will take a flight to Kashgar (about 2 hrs), the southwestern border city of Xinjiang. You will visit the Abakh Hoja Tomb. The whole mausoleum is a group of very beautifully constructed magnificent ancient architectural complex. It is by the Church, high and low worship temple, gate tower, the main crypt, orchard and other major components, a variety of different shapes of the building constitutes a mausoleum of different heights, staggered multi-level landscape.

Next, you will visit the landmark of Kashgar - Id Kah Mosque, which had a certain influence on the religious circles both at home and abroad.

Only several minutes' walk from the mosque is the exotic Kashgar Old Town.They will haggle in the sign language that is unique to their people.

Explore the traditional earth buildings where local people live, walk through the famous Handicrafts Street where you are able to see dazzling jewellery, original pottery, unique musical instruments. Free time at a tea house is specially arranged for you to relax and soak up the local culture and traditions.

Today’s activities end. Have a good rest in your hotel in Kashgar.

Attractions: Karakul Lake

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Tashkurgan

Today, you are going to visit the famous 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.

After an exhausting long drive, it is very sure that you will be compensated by the constant landscape of the overwhelming Pamirs Plateau.This tourist area is centred on the "Stone City, a national cultural relics protection unit, the Golden Grass Beach, a national wetland park, the unique natural landscape of the Caiyun People's Scenic Spot, and the Family Folk Village", which has a profound history and culture as well as beautiful plateau scenery, and also provides an opportunity to learn about the unique folklore of the Tajiks.

 Keep driving about 1 hour to Tashkurgan. Have a good rest in this beautiful Tajik town

Attractions: Stone Fortress, Golden Grassland

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Kashgar

Today we will drive 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.

Over the past few years, it is not allowed to build new wooden pathway at this beautiful grassland. From here you can get better photos of the stone fortress. Take a walk around the ranch to see the local Tajik customs.

Attractions: Local Bazaar

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Not included

Today, we will arrange for you a visit to a local bazaar to get to know the local life. If it happens to be a Sunday, it will be scheduled to a more unique livestock bazaar. Then we will escort you to the airport.