2 Days Turpan tour

Duration

2 Days

Destination

Xinjiang

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By traveling to Turpan, you will understand the ancient Silk Road, our guide will tell you what was the silk road, and take you to some ancient relics which were built up during the silk road trade period. Turpan Basin at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in the east of Xinjiang covers an area of about 50000 square kilometers, of which 4050 square kilometers are land and water below sea level. It is the lowest basin in China.; hottest, the highest temperature in July is 49 Celsius degree；driest, the whole year precipitation is only 16mm, the whole year evaporation is more than 3000mm; and there have the best taste lamb.

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Destination

Xinjiang Discover Xinjiang

Departure Location

Urumqi

Return Location

Urumqi

Price includes

Accommodation-4 star Hotel
Hotel and meals for guide and driver
Professional English speaking tour guide
Train tickets fee
Transportation with air-conditioned car/bus

Price does not include

All Flight Tickets
Entrance tickets to monuments and museums
Excursions other than those specified in trips
Meals during the tour
Personal expenses
Tips to guide and driver

Day 1
Day 2

Day 1

Urumqi to Turpan, 190km

In the morning, we drive to Turpan city, it will take us about 3.5 hours by car, but you will enjoy the landscapes and biggest wind farm in China on the way, you can see semi desert, lakes, grassland, grassless mountain, sand and stone desert. Turpan is about 1 km lower than Urumqi by altitude, when you arrive to Turpan, you will have a lunch at local restaurant, enjoy from the Uighur cuisine. then will visit Sultan minaret (the only highest minaret in Xinjiang, was build 18th century), which very close to the Turpan city. Then you will go to the Karez irrigation (an underground water cannel, was build 2000 years ago) and Jiaohe Ancient city, Jiao was added to UNESCO 2014, is a best preserved soil structured city ruins in China. After dinner, you can walk around the food streets of Turpan city. You will find that it is very different from Urumqi and the rhythm of the city is very comfortable.

Day 2

Turpan to Urumqi

Today, we will have a unique Turpan tour, after breakfast, we will drive to east and see the marvelous landscape Flaming mountains, then go to the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, which was Buddhist temple with ancient paintings, after that, we drive east again to visit Tuyuk village and have a village local lunch. The environment is not luxury but the food is quite tasty and experience with locals are good.

After visiting there, you will drive back to Urumqi. It is about 250 kilometers from the village. Finish the tour

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Flexibility

You can add or delete days or especial activities from the itinerary, services can be adjusted to your own interests, Please contact us via email and let us know your plan, we are ready to offer you the best customized tour!

Accommodation

Please tell us your hotel requests, we will book hotels accordingly, we have 5 star international hotels at bigger cities, 4 star hotels and 3 star hotels, our hotels include breakfast.

Transportation

Since our tours are private tours, we offer you private transportation, we have all kinds of comfortable vehicles which are suitable for your journey, please feel free to let us know if you have especial requests for the vehicles.

Meals

We usually include breakfast and exclude Lunch and Dinner, it is for flexibility, but of course our guides and drivers always responsible to show you nice restaurants, you just need to tell your favorites.