Plan your Urumqi tour? Xinjiang is a good place, the largest provincial-level region in China, officially named Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang spans 1.6 million km2 ( comparable in size to 3 Frances), and covers an area of about one sixth of the China’s territory. The charm of Xinjiang lies on its diversified ethnic cultures, and unique geography and…
Urumqi airport, officially named Urumqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA:URC, ICAO:ZWWW) is located in Diwopu, 16km northwest of Urumqi city center. At present, Urumqi airport has 3 terminals – T1, T2 and T3. Terminal 1 is mainly for international flights on Urumqi – the countries in the middle Asia line, like Kazakhstan, Uzbekstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghnistan and…
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,…
Plan your Urumqi tour? Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is very often your springboard to delve into the expansive province. Urumqi itself is worth a pop by on your Xinjiang trip. It is the largest city in Western China. Urumqi is quite famous for its claim that it is the most inland major city…
Urumqi Taxi Plan your Urumqi tour? Traveling around Urumqi by taxi is a good choice if you visit the capital city of Xinjiang for the first time. Basically it is not hard to hail the taxi on the streets in Urumqi. If you want to rent a car with driver to visit Urumqi on…