If you have limited time, and want to see the most important parts of Silk Road in Xinjiang, we recommend you our 7 days itinerary, it contains the best parts of Kashgart, Turpan and Urumqi.
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Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang province, although it is a modern city, but you should stop here at least once or twice to visit Xinjiang area, since it is the key point for transportation, and has the most international ,domestic flights and trains. Urumqi also has the most beautiful places in western China like Heavenly Lake, it is very green and the lake look like mirror, and the biggest historical Silk Road museum in central Asia – the Xinjiang Regional Museum.
Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang province, although it is a modern city, but you should stop here at least once or twice to visit Xinjiang area, since it is the key point for transportation, has the most international ,domestic flights and trains, besides, it also has the most beautiful land in Western China – Heavenly Lake, and the biggest historical Silk Road museum in central Asia – Xinjiang Regional Museum.
If you have limited time around Urumqi and want to see the most valuable places around it, we suggest you take our 3 days tour around Urumqi and Turpan, you will enjoy the most important and historical sites.
The Tianshan Grand canyon is the first national 5A scenic area in Urumqi, is located in Urumqi county, 24 km away from Urban district, the scenic are is situated in the middle section of Tianshan mountain, one of the World Natural Heritage, with the total planning area of 1038km2 . It is ringed on three sides by mountains and has an average elevation of 2020m. Here you can enjoy every sight of the natural landscape of Xinjiang except desert, and you can also see that the north slope of Tianshan Mountain is known as the most complete and most ornamental primitive forest -- snow lotus forest.
South mountain is about 70 kilometers south of Urumqi city. It is part of Tianshan mountain, so people call it Nanshan the south mountain, The Nanshan mountain is green and have beautiful valleys, waterfall and kazak Yurts, Kazak nomads live there for long time, you can visit Kazak Yurt and enjoy the kumiss, cheese, mutton, shish kabab and other foods of kazak folk flavors. By car it will take about one and half hours. In the hot summer, it's an ideal holiday place. people like to have picnic and stay overnight there, in winter people go there for ski.
The geographical center of the Asian continent is located in Yongfeng village of Urumqi county 35 km away from Urumqi city. The Sign tower is the core of the Asia geographical center, it is 18 meters high, is composed of four column, four sides are in "A" shape, means "Asia". Because the Asia heart is furthest place from the ocean, and has strong continental feature, it’s special geographical position gives people impressive scientific implication and mystery, has a rich history and culture, is the key tourist area of Urumqi.