Plan your Xinjiang tour? Sayram Lake is located between the Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture and the Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture. The lake takes an area of 457 square kilometers. The fault basin is at the sea-level of 2,073 meters. The lake has a depth of 86 meters. The lake is an amazing natural water resource and is circled by green grasslands. Nestled in…
Plan your Xinjiang Tour? Karamay Oilfield is one of the largest oilfields in China with a yearly output over ten million tons of oil. Karamay Oilfield was the first large oilfield in China. Its commercial oil flow was found in well named “Karamy No.01” on Oct 29, 1955. Ever since then, Karamay Oilfield has been developing fast and have made huge…
Plan your Xinjiang Tour? Karamay is rich in natural tourism resources. The world-famous Ghost City Scenic Spot is located in the “Devil City”, a famous Wuerhe wind city, in Wuerhe District, 90km northeast from Karamay City，400km from Urumqi City. On the way, you will see several oil fields. The landscape in the so-called “Ghost Town of World” is a typical…
Plan your Xinjiang Tour? We stay two nights in Kalamay mainly for the participation of the 7th Internatonal Tourism Festival of Xinjiang. The festival ceremony itself doeen’t last long, and the festival organization puts a very tight sightseeing fam schedule for the participants as if in an attempt to cram all the “must to…
The 7th China Xinjiang International Tourism Festival kicked off in Karamay Xinjiang on June 25, 2011. According to the official statistics, over 200 distinguished guests both from 26 countries and 24 provinces in China attended the the Xinjiang Tourism Promotion Meeting yesterday afternoon as well as the grand opening ceremony of the 7th International Tourism Xinjiang China yesterday evening,…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Welcome to my hometown. East West Home’s Best. Wherever I drift in the world, Hangzhou my hometown will always linger in my mind. Her progress, her setback and her success hit me up all the time. Today I’m overwhelmed by the exciting news coming from Paris that Hangzhou West Lake Cultural landscape was…
Plan your Xinjiang tour? Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group. About 45 % of the total population in Urumqi are uyghur people who largely inhabitate around the Grand Bazaar area. Today I visited the world famous bazaar in Urumqi, officially named “International Grand Bazaar”,…
Plan your Urumqi tour? Over a dozen of daily flights running between Beijing and Urumqi ( Capital of Xinjiang), which take more than 4 hours’non-stop flight. The flight time is basically longer than that of almost all flights wittin West Europe. China is huge geographically. The 4 hour flights are largely operated by Air China,…