Day 4Turpan

Attractions: Karez Well, Sugong Pagoda, Jiaohe Ruins

Meal: Not included

Hotel: Overnight in Urumqi

After an overnight train ride, you will arrive in Turpan the next morning and your guide and driver will wait for you at the train station to pick you up and send you to visit Karez Well.​ Karez Well drew out the groundwater and turned the desert into an oasis, which was called a "well canal" in ancient times. 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.

Next, we will tour the 44-meter-high Sugong Pagoda, aka Emin Minaret. It is the largest existing Minaret in Xinjiang, which was built in 1778 A.D. and has a history of more than 230 years. It was built by the famous Uyghur patriot Emin and Zhuo, the king of Turpan County, in order to repay the favour of the Qing Dynasty, express his piety to Allah and to make his lifelong performance known to future generations, and he paid 7000 taels of silver for the construction of the pagoda.

Then we will drive to Jiaohe Ruins. Take your time to walk and stroll. The once bustling neighbourhoods and temples have been preserved, and some of the structures can still be imagined. 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.