Activities: Drive through Kurban Tongut desert, Visit Wucaiwan, the multi- colored bay, wild animal protection area
Details:After breakfast, you’ll meet your tour guide and driver in your hotel lobby then drive to Burjin County through Kurbantongut desert and, en-route, to enjoy the vast desert steppes of the China’s second largest desert.
After about 3 hours of driving we’ll stop at Wucaicheng also known as Wucaiwan, the multi-colored bay. The bay presents the visitor with an artist’s composed colors of reds, yellows, greens, grays, blacks and whites. The multi-colored Bay was one of the main locations for the Oscar Winning Best Foreign language film “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”.
We enjoy this fascinating Bay for about an hour then continue driving through “Karamay Wild Animals Protection Area.” On a good day, you’ll hopefully see some of the many wild horses, camels or deers during our crossing. We can stop to take photos at any time you want.
We’ll arrive in Burjin county at about 6:00pm local time and you’ll check into your hotel before dinner. Following dinner, we’ll take you to sample the raucous, earthy atmosphere of a famous nearby night market where we’ll taste locally caught fish from around Burjin county (at your own expense)
Activities: Drive to Hemu village and visit Wusaitan on the way
Details:After breakfast visit Wucaitan which is also known as “Rainbow Beach” and “Five-Colored Hills”,
located about 25km from Burjin county, Wucaitan means “multi-colored beach” as it is formed with many different colors and located on the North Side of Irtysh River while South Bank is luxuriantly trees, rolling forests, the distant meandering hills with panoramic view of the desert scenery.
Then keep driving through some beautiful grasslands and zigzagged mountain roads with pine trees.
Arrive in Hemu village in the afternoon and relax for the rest of the day. Rest of the day is free to Hike around the village and grassland.
Stay at Tuwa wooden guesthouse
Hemu village has been ranked by China National Geography as one of the six most beautiful villages in China.
Activities: Drive to Kanas lake and spend the rest of the day
Details:Get up early in the morning and hike up TO Meilifeng which is a nearby hill provides a great opportunity to take spectacular photos and enjoy panoramic view of the small village at Sunrise.
Then have breakfast and leave for Kanas Lake.
spend whole rest of the day around Kanas lake which is a great place for some outdoor activates.You will have chance to hike around the lake,go for boating, horse riding, river rafting as you like (on your own expenses).
End of the day take shuttle bus and come back to Jiadengyu which is the entrance of the lake for overnight stay
Activities: Spend whole morning around the lake and drive back to Burjin in the afternoon
Details:After Breakfast get the shuttle bus to the lake again.
1. During shuttle bus ride Between entrance and the lake, you can stop at several spots along the Kanas River like Laying Dragon Bay, Immortal Bay and Moon Bay which are the most well-known and beautiful sceneries in this area.
2. Take shuttle bus to GuanYuTai ( Fish Watching Pavilion) which is the highest point and the best place to take incredible panoramic view of the whole lake (on your own expenses). The Kanas Lake is famous for changing its colors. The color of the water changes several times in a day, from dark green to sky blue, then to gray and white. The higher you climb up, the more colors you will see.
when finished drive back to Burjin and stay overnight
Activities: whole day drive to Kuitun, visit Ghost city and oil zone on the way
Details:After breakfast at your hotel set out for Kuitun. First stop at Wurghu town and visit Ghost City where you’ll also have an opportunity to stretch your legs have a short walk and back in time.
The Ghost Town is the nickname for Feng Cheng (the Windy Town) and it is named as such for just the wind rather than its appearance. After millennia of erosion by the wind and the rain, the present strange sight of Yardang landform was formed. This is not only a good place in which to travel but it also attracts a great deal of attention and interest of those who appreciate its scientific value.
You’ll also visit the Oil zone of Karamay along the way. Arrive at the hotel by dinner time and stay overnight.
Activities: Drive to Urumqi visit Heavenly lake on the way
Details:Our guide and driver see you at the hotel lobby and Leave for Urumqi after breakfast. Today you will visit beautiful and crystal-clear waters of Heavenly Lake which is guarded by the Tianshan mountain. Once you are at the like, you will have free time to roam around the lake, simply trekking up the mountains through the various valleys, go for boating or take cable car(own expense) up to the top of the mountain for full scenery of the lake.Whenever you are finished with the lake drive back to Urumqi and stay overnight.