SILK ROAD TRAVELS IN NORTH XINJIANG
Soad Road Tour Turpan Urumqi
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- 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
- 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
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Urumqi Tour to Heavenly lake
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 relaxing.
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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