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.
