Donkey’s paradise, a guide to food, clothing, housing and transportation in Xinjiang

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Accommodation:

There is a fruit guest house near Nianzigou Bus Station in Urumqi City (16 yuan/person for a four-person room). There are six rooms on each floor and two bathrooms (connected The toilets (no distinction between men and women) are very clean and have hot water before midnight.

The guest house of Mianzi Company across II Nianzigou/Cold Storage Road, standard room 35 yuan/bed (Nianzigou Passenger Terminal, Supply and Marketing Hotel, and Yangtze River Hotel are near the intersection)

D2: Urumqi

Line:

There are many buses in Urumqi and are convenient, but if the journey is not far, walking is more conducive to experiencing the national customs. Nianzigou Long-distance Bus Station has passenger buses to all parts of Xinjiang, but there are not many buses every day.

Food:

Hand-picked rice, mutton soup, roasted lamb, roasted whole lamb. In addition to various sheep-related foods, there are also glutinous rice and jujube cakes, various barbecues, casseroles, Sweet soup and many other snacks.

Tour:

Tianshan Tianchi can be visited by a group at the entrance of People’s Park (departing at 9:00 every day and returning to Urumqi at about 18:00 that day) - it is said to be the least worth visiting Places to visit: Erdaoqiao, which is a large market for the Uighurs. You can feel the rich ethnic customs along the way; museum (complete mummy). It is recommended to visit the city for a day and arrange a chartered car.

D3: Urumqi-Wucaiwan-Kamust-Fuyun-Beitun-Burqin

Tour:

Jimsar-Qitai : General Qitai is located in Shishugou deep in the Gobi Desert, not far from Qitai Devil City. Kamust-Fuyun: colorful city, burning mountain. Beitun-Burqin: Butterfly Valley. Go to the Irtysh River in the evening to see the river scenery. You will see a large number of sunflowers along the way, which are not as good as those you will see later. Here is the most beautiful sunset in the whole journey! (If you take the shuttle bus, Nianzigou Bus Station 19:00, D4: Arrive in Burqin in the morning, and you may not be able to see the scenery along the way)

OK:

You can contact the chartered bus to Hanas at the station (800 yuan/4 people/3 days, 1,000 yuan/4 people/4 days). When you are ready, go and apply for the border defense permit. It is very convenient to apply for the permit, 2 yuan/person, right away. You can go. (10 yuan to apply for a border defense permit?)

Food:

Have a good meal and prepare three days of dry food, because the food in Hanas is too expensive.

D4: Visit Burqin River and Irqis River. Set off. Burqin-Hemu.

The road is difficult to walk, but there are large areas of sunflowers and various wild flowers all over the mountains. The people on the road are simple and honest. The houses here in Hemu are very unique. The scenery along the river is good, and you can overlook Hemu from the back mountain. The starry sky here is beautiful. Dry food is the best choice. Drink horse milk, pure honey, etc. There are yogurt pimples and wild rice sold by locals on the road. Strawberry: Although wild strawberry is as small as a glass bead, it tastes sweet and sour.

Accommodation:

Township Guest House (20 yuan/person)

Stay in Xinlv Villa (satellite phone 0906-8191003), double room 50 yuan/person , this is the best hotel.

D5: Hemu-Hanas

Line:

Get up early to admire the Hemu in the morning mist. Cross the wooden bridge and go up the back mountain to overlook the Hemu. .There are wild strawberries everywhere. Depart for Hanas before 12:00. On the way, you can see Wolong Beach, Moon Bay, Duckbill Beach and other scenic spots, which are very beautiful. The scenery along the way is even better than Lake Kica. Every step brings you a scene, so hurry up and take photos!

Accommodation:

I Hotel in Hanas Village (15 yuan/person), but it is still about a 40-minute walk from the lake.

II lives in a resort by the lake, and the price per bed is as high as 60 yuan or more.

You can choose a yurt for III accommodation, 5 yuan/person

Food:

Of course the dry food prepared that day!

D6: Hanas - Baihaba

Tour:

Take a boat to the pier opposite and board the Fish Viewing Pavilion on the top of the mountain across the lake. It takes 4 hours to overlook the Kahu Lake. It is easy to get lost on the trail, and it is further and more time-consuming. It is recommended to go up the mountain from the main road. You should bring enough dry food and water, as they are not sold on the mountain. After viewing the lake, go down from the back, where there are people covered with blood. A variety of beautiful wild flowers and lawns. Be careful to get lost! Baihaba Village, the first post, the Sino-Russian border river; rush to Burqin at 21:00 to watch the sunset on the Irtysh River. OK:

We hiked to Guanyu Pavilion, with more than 2,000 stone steps, and I was exhausted. Leave Hanas in the afternoon and arrive at Baihaba in the evening (for example, you can arrive at Burqin immediately at noon). Baihaba is a gorgeous fairy tale world: bright flowers and plants are planted in front of every house here, the wooden houses are painted in bright colors, and there is a large birch forest behind the village. On the hillside on the other side are surprisingly large white wild flowers

Accommodation:

I Bai Haba: Haba River Hotel four-person common room, 35 yuan / bed, public ***24-hour hot water supply in bathroom.

II Burqin - Station Hotel (10 yuan/person), there is a bathhouse nearby (2 yuan/person), usually open until 22:00, but if you say hello in advance and ask the boss, you can Delay appropriately.

Food:

In the evening, go to the Hedi Night Market in Burqin to try snacks: Kawasi (Beer, a special drink in Xinjiang, I heard it is brewed from hops and honey, very fragrant) ), grilled fish, barbecue.

D7: Baihaba - Burqin - Wuerhe (ghost town) - (Kuitun)

Tour:

You can see it on the way back to Burqin from Baihaba The spectacular border river between China and Russia, and a huge group of wind power generation windmills can be seen near Burqin. The Devil's City, which is 3 kilometers away from Urho, does not require admission. At about 19:00, you can hire a six-passenger tricycle for 20 yuan for a round trip and go to Devil City. Devil City is a typical wind-eroded landform. It is very spectacular at dusk, and you can pick up the most beautiful stones in Xinjiang here.

Food:

You can buy the best and cheapest watermelon in Xinjiang for 0.25 yuan/kg, cantaloupe for 1 yuan/piece and "Huang Zui Xian" which is sweeter than honey. If you miss it here, It’s hard to taste, the same price is 1 yuan/piece.

OK:

You can negotiate the price of accommodation to 5 yuan per person, or you can take a bus to Kuitun around 23:00 that night.

D8: Wuerhe-Kuitun —Selim Lake

Tour:

Watching the sunset and sunrise, the tranquility of Selim Lake is the greatest enjoyment.

OK:

Kuitun is just a transfer station, and the journey time is about 7 hours.

Accommodation:

By the lake, you can rent a yurt for 15 yuan per person to shelter from the wind and sleep; or go a little further and live with the locals to experience their life.

Food:

Mutton with the head, skin and internal organs removed is 13 yuan/kg. Horseback riding is 20 yuan/hour. For food, accommodation and horse rental by Sailimu Lake, it is best to find Kazakhs. Kazakhs are friendly and down to earth people.

D9: Selim Lake-Yining

Tour:

Selim Lake is the cheapest and best place for horse riding. Yining is the most popular place in Xinjiang The place with water is also where the Kazakh people live. The Yining River Bridge can be viewed from the Yining River, but it depends on whether it is the flood season. If it is not the flood season, it is more ordinary. The sun sets over the Yining River, and you can go to the People's Square to join in the fun at night. You can go to Yining Bridge to watch the sunset.

Go:

Depart in the afternoon and arrive in Yining in 4 hours

Accommodation:

In The preferred place to stay in Yining is Guangyuan Guest House (about 30 meters into the small road on the right opposite the station). It is convenient and cheap (you can negotiate the price to 10 yuan per person), clean, you can take a bath and there are many restaurants nearby

Food:

Yining has a famous chicken dish and the rice is cheap.

D10: Yining-Zhaosu-Xiatai Scenic Area-Wusun Mountain Summer Pasture-Xinyuan-Nalati Grassland.

Tour:

Visit Yining and apply for the border defense permit to Xiatai. In the afternoon, set off to Yining-Nalati (scenic area). You can visit Gongnaisi Forest Park, located in Hejing County of Bayingolin Prefecture, on the upper reaches of the Gongnaisi River, where the Gongnaisi Forest Park is located. It is 1,600-2,400 meters above sea level. The snow-capped mountains are reflected in the lake, and the mountains are full of pine trees and wild flowers. Breakfast at the hotel Afterwards, spend the whole day shooting the natural scenery of Chatemuzat Canyon.

Accommodation:

Accommodation in Nalati only costs 10 yuan/person; in Nalati Town, stay at Yuanyuan Hotel, standard double and triple rooms cost 15 yuan/person (off-season) discount).

D11: Nalati-Bayinbuluke

Line:

Take a bus to Bayinbuluke, then go to Bayinbuluke Town in the afternoon, and then (charter a car) there Swan Lake Nature Reserve.

Tour:

Although I have been staying in the car, the scenery along the way is not to be missed. (16:45 Santana takes the bus to Swan Lake (Beijing jeep charter costs 150 yuan, guaranteeing you to see the swans, in fact anyone can see them), leave the town. Go 2 kilometers south and turn east, the tourist toll station is no longer guarded , saving 50 yuan/car. Arrive at the White House (tourist reception station) at 18:30 and there is a Mongolian man collecting money at the fence (the people at the tourist reception station have already left, and they charge an arbitrary fee at this time), and they charge 10 yuan/person. , it costs 50 yuan to go up by car, and we walked up the mountain for 30 yuan for the four of us. We reached the top of the mountain at 17:05 and looked down at the surroundings. On the southwest side of the mountain are the famous Nine Winds and Eighteen Bends, and in the distance on the south side are the continuous snow-capped mountains and the meandering wetland below the mountain. There were cows, sheep, and horses grazing, and swans were playing and flying. We were waiting to take pictures of the sunset. The sunset was beautiful at 20:00 and the winding road was very bright. We walked back at 20:30 and finally arrived at 22:00. Bayinbuluke Town).

Stay:

I TV Tower Hotel, only 10 yuan per person, free hot bath, the boss and waiters are very kind. (Another version is as follows:)

II TV Station Hotel, a double room costs 35 yuan per person, which is too expensive. We stayed at the Laoma Muslim Hotel by the intersection, and a double room costs 15 yuan.

Food:

Eat at a Uighur restaurant, including naan, kebabs, and mutton soup.

D12: Bayinbuluk-Xia Ranch-Kuqa

Tour:

The area from Bayinbuluk to Kuqa has a unique "red mountain" landscape. Take the night bus or midnight train from Kuqa to Kashgar. In the morning, you can cross a large grassland (Bayinbulak has the largest grassland in Xinjiang) to climb those beautiful and unreal mountains, and see a special spot on the mountain. Don’t go past the bright wildflowers and green grass, because they are signs of the swamp. After lunch, you can return to Nalati and go to the summer pasture. The scenery on the way is first-rate. You can enter in the afternoon. You can also experience the nomadic people in the summer pasture. The atmosphere. Along the Duku Highway, you will cross the Tielima Deda Ban of Tianshan Mountain at an altitude of 3,400 meters, pass through the longest highway tunnel in Xinjiang, which is about 2,000 meters long, and spiral down sharply for 10 kilometers before arriving at the Kuqa River Valley. The famous tourist attraction - Dalongchi. Go south along the Duku Highway to Kizilya Mountain, which means "red cliff" in Uyghur language. The jagged rocks look like thousands of troops. Enter in the evening. Appreciate the climate throughout the year. Checha was called "Qiuci" in ancient times and has Thousand Buddha Cave, Beacon Tower and the ancient city of Karamazi.

Access:

Drive all day along the Duku Highway to Kuqa. Arrive in Kuqa at 20:00-20:30 in the evening. Take the night bus or midnight train, Kuqa-Kashgar .In the car.

Food:

Apricots are famous throughout the country, and mutton skewers are also particularly plump, and the preparation method is slightly different from other places.

D13: Kuqa - Kashgar D14, 15 Kashgar

Tour:

Apply for a border defense permit to Karakulli Lake. Buy tickets. Buy dry food.. Visit Kashgar.

The place to apply for a border defense permit is: 1. Kashgar Public Security Bureau: No. 64, Renmin East Road, 0998-2822048 (3041); 2. Kashgar Border Defense Detachment: No. 64, Seman Road, 0998-2825201.

The public security office in the Shiseman Road area requires a certificate to apply for a border permit. It costs 10 yuan to apply for the permit yourself. You can ask a local travel agency to apply for it.

Tour:

Visit the Id Kah Mosque and Xiangfei Tombs and the famous Grand Bazaar (the busiest on Sundays), and there are song and dance performances in the hotel in the evening. Kashgar is a big city with first-class ethnic customs.

It is best to arrive in Kashgar on Friday morning, immediately go to the Kashgar Prefecture Border Guard Bureau to apply for a border defense permit to Ta County (it is also possible on Saturday and Sunday morning), and then rush to the big prayer that starts at 1:00 in the afternoon. On the sixth day, we visited the Tomb of Xiang Fei in the city, visited the Grand Bazaar at noon on Sunday, and went to watch the fountain in front of the square in the evening. It takes 20 minutes to walk from the Kashgar Transportation Hotel to the Id Kah Mosque. The entrance fee to the Id Kah Mosque during the day is 6 yuan. From the transportation The one-way taxi from the hotel to Xiangfei Tomb in Xiali is 10 yuan, and the ticket to Xiangfei Tomb is 15 yuan.

Id Kah is one of the three largest mosques in the country. It is known as the "Little Mecca". Every Friday at 1:00 pm is the time for the big prayer. At this time, every inch of the temple is covered with It is occupied by devout male believers, but women are not allowed to enter. Normally, there is no gender discrimination in the temple, but female tourists are not allowed to wear too revealing clothes. If you want to take pictures of Muslim worship scenes, you must ask the imam (host) of the temple. without consent, and not in front or to the side of the worshipers. Women are not allowed to enter the mosque without consent.

There is a big market outside the temple. Although it is not as big as the Grand Bazaar, there are not many people and it feels good. The bronzes in it are more like decorations than daily necessities. The Tomb of Xiangfei is also known as Apaho Jia Tomb is located in Haokand Village, 5 kilometers northeast of Kashgar. There is no direct bus to it. Get off at the intersection and walk through a small village. The folk customs in this small village are very simple, and tourists are even allowed to enter the house to visit. It is best to take pictures for them. .

Sunday’s Grand Bazaar (East Gate of Kashgar City) gathers market goers from all over the Kashgar area, especially at 12:00 noon. However, because there are too many people and the weather is too hot, tourists will feel dizzy. . You can walk all the way to the bazaar from your residence. There are more and more people along the road. There are copperware street, woodware street, and naan buying stalls one after another. There are also livestock market, cloth market, knife market, etc. in the bazaar. It’s endless. It’s hard to appreciate the atmosphere just by looking at it. Tourists often buy a few Xinjiang knives (among them the knives made in Yingjisha are the best) as souvenirs. But remember to bargain hard, otherwise you will find absolutely It’s expensive to buy. You can get a knife sharpened at the knife market for 0.50 yuan/piece. The copper plates, shawls, etc. here all have ethnic characteristics, but they are expensive. Sunday evening at 8:00 in front of the square There is a musical fountain, where many Uyghurs splash water for fun. This is definitely a luxury in a place with such a lack of water, but the joyful atmosphere is so simple that it can move everyone present. At night in Kashgar, it is like If you have time, you can also go to Jack's Cafe, a tourist gathering place next to Seman Hotel.

Accommodation:

My first choice is Building 1 of Tiannan Hotel opposite Kashgar Station (Building 3 is more expensive), 4-person room 10 yuan/person, free bathing.

II Kashgar Transportation Hotel offers a standard room for 80 yuan/room.

III Qiniwak Hotel/Seman Hotel, both of which are well-known hotels for self-guided tours. Many foreigners, 25 Yuan/person, 4-person suite, 24-hour hot water supply.

D16: Kashgar-Karakulli Lake

Tour:

Arrive at Lake Daka at about 15:00. The climate is most pleasant at this time, so you should seize the time to visit. Generally, after 21:00 (before sunset), Kahu becomes very cold. Kahu is a mountaineering base. Directly in front of it is Gonggeer Jiubie Mountain, and on the right is the domineering "Father of Snow Mountains" Muztage Peak. , Ka Lake is surrounded by snow-capped mountains like a moon held by stars. Ka Lake can experience four seasons of climate in one day, summer around 15:00, then autumn, winter at night, and at 12:00 noon, you can see the famous It is true that there is snow in August. The weather in Kahu is cold, so bring enough clothes and dry food. Kahu is the most beautiful lake in the whole journey.

Line:

Kashgar to Mu Shitag Mountain and Kalakul Lake, long-distance bus is 33.40 yuan.

Accommodation:

The only two-story brick building in the Kalakul Lake Scenic Area, a four-person dormitory Room is 50 yuan/bed, entrance fee to Karakul Lake Scenic Area is 20 yuan

Food:

Rice is very expensive, vegetarian dishes are 25 yuan, a bowl of rice is 5 yuan, and beer is 7 yuan.

D17: Stone City

Tour:

Karakulli Lake, take a ride in the afternoon, Karakulli Lake-Tashkorgan. Stay in Taxkorgan. You can arrive in Taxkorgan County around 17:00, and you have enough time to visit Stone City and its surrounding villages and grasslands. Stone City is located on the east and north side of Taxkorgan County, and the ticket is 8 yuan.

Line:

It is 90 kilometers from Muztagh Mountain to Taxkorgan, and it costs 60 yuan to take a taxi. There are long-distance buses passing by every afternoon, but the time difference is very different.

Accommodation:

I Transportation The hotel's private rooms are 80 yuan/room, with 24-hour electric water heater. Turn left after leaving the hotel and you can reach Stone City in 15 minutes. The stone has a wide view and is a good vantage point for shooting snow-capped mountains and plateaus.

II Kahu lived in a yurt (40 yuan/person)

III Taxian County stayed in the Transportation Hotel (10 yuan/person)

D18: Taxkorgan-Kashgar

Tour:

Arrived in Kashgar in the evening and visited Kashgar. Taxkorgan is 300 kilometers back to Kashgar, and the high-end coach costs 60 yuan. There is a bus back to Kashgar around 9 a.m. every day. It is almost dark when you come back, so you can go to the streets to buy some folk handicrafts. Kashgar has the largest variety of handicrafts and the lowest prices. The most attractive thing is Musical instruments.

D19, D20: Kashgar - Hotan - Tazhong - Luntai or (Korla)

Line:

There are many buses from Kashgar to Hotan, driving time It takes about 10-12 hours; then take a shuttle bus in Hotan to cross the desert highway and end at Luntai.

Accommodation:

You can stay in the tower for one night. The desert night is very lovely, and you can also watch the sunrise and sunset quietly. Stay at Luntai Hotel or (Stay at: Jiaotong Hotel).

Tour:

Taklimakan Desert, Sea of ??Death, the largest desert in China and the second largest in the world.

D21: Korla-Turpan

Tour:

On the road from Bosten Lake Luntai to Korla (185KM), you can see the longest inland river in China-- Tarim River, arrive at Korla in the afternoon, visit Bosten Lake, the largest lake in Xinjiang, and return to Korla

Line: - Take the K884 train in the evening and go to Turpan the next morning. 21:07 Take the Y204 express train (35 yuan for hard seats, 77 yuan for hard sleepers) to Turpan.

D22: Turpan

Tour:

Arrive in Turpan, hire a taxi (250 yuan/day) to visit Karez (10 yuan) and Jiaohe Ancient City (13 yuan), Flaming Mountain Grape Valley (20 yuan), Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Cave (22 yuan), Astana Ancient Tomb (10 yuan), Gaochang Ancient City (13 yuan), Sugong Pagoda (6 Yuan) and other attractions (choose according to time and interest).

OK:

Return to the train station at 17:54 and take train 343 to Urumqi, arriving at 20:17, hard seat costs 11 yuan. If you only want to visit the Flame Mountain and Grape Valley, you don’t need to charter a car. There are special minibuses in Turpan.

D23: Urumqi-Guangzhou (Beijing)