13 Days North Xinjiang Tour to Ili Pastureland

Meet guide and check in the hotel and then there will be a meeting about the tour. And enjoy the Uyghur Show in Erdaoqiao Market.

After breakfast drive to Sayram Lake and we will arrive at 6PM.

In the spring, summer and autumn the sapphire water of the lake seems to meet the sky in the distance. The pasture is a charming scene of flourishing trees, waving grass, and wildflowers that are reflected in the clear water of the lake. As well as the local Kazaks with their yurts, variety of the cattle and sheep. Over night in the Yurt.

After the morning photo, we will continue to Fruit Gully. --- there are numerous pine trees, and rivers and brooks converge here flanking by numerous ridges and peaks. Known as the "1st scene of Ili", the gully has a pleasant cool weather in summer and autumn, and the ground is covered with flowers with bees and butterflies flying and dancing among them. Countless fruits hanging from the branches of the trees on the hillsides, pure white snow far and near, together with flocks of sheep and yurts scattering in the gully here and there compose a beautiful picture of grassland. Head to Yili, known as the "beyond the Great Wall Jiangnan," Drive across the Tianshan Daban and arrive in Zhaosu, known as the Home Town of Rape Flower.

Overnight in Zhaosu County.

Drive to Shate Valley, where you can enjoy the original nature and see many wild animals, beautiful flowers, the glaciers.

Over night in the Yurt

You will spend whole day in Shate Valley to take the photo and experience the hot spring in the ingenious pastureland.

After breakfast drive to The Eight-Diagram City in Tekes is a young prairie town in Xinjiang. It was firstly built in 1937 according to the shape of the Eight-Diagram. Since 1951, the city has been expanded constantly on its former base and become more and more majestically and flourishing. And take the photo of the million mus of rape flowers.

Over night in Tekes Hotel

After breakfast visit the ingenious Kalajun Prairie and take the photos there. Prairie is as beautiful as in a poem or a picture. There are springs densely distributed here. Every year, from May to September. The ideal place for people of the pasture to exchange materials and hold cultural activities.

Over night in the Yurt

Over night in the Yurt

After breakfast drive to Tangbula Prairie and we will stop in No 71 Corps and take the photo of the refreshing and fragrance of Lavender. Arrive in Qiaoerma in the evening.

Over night in Qiaoerma Hotel

Leave for Narat Prairie in the afternoon and enjoy the picturesque landscape, taking the photos. here are wide river valley, high mountains，the crisscrossed deep gores，the flourishing forest and open grassland．It is crowned as“air pasture''and“garden highway”．

Over night in Narat Hotel

Head to Bayinbuluk Grasslands and Swan Nature Reserve, The grassland stretches vastly and smoothly, and is rich in water and grass．High quality fescue grasses grow all over this vast grassland which accommodates and feeds flocks and herds. This natural reserve is abundant in birds，particularly water birds of various kinds in large quantity.

Over night in the Swan Hotel

After breakfast take the photos near Kaidu River, varieties of swan, wild yark. Then drive across the Mishen Daban which sea level is 4280ms, arrive in the NO 1 Glacier of Tianshan. is formed by glittering and translucent ice with a length of 2.4 kilometers, a width of over 500 meters. It's an ideal place to observe and study the formation and movement of modern glacier. Into the glacier, there excavates a tunnel of 80m long and 2m high, and people can walk into the tunnel to appreciate the magic scene of an icy silver world. Arrive in Urumqi in the evening.

Over night in Urumqi

You will be transferred to the airport based on your flight time.