【Xinjiang】 Kashgar-Turpan-Urumuqi Classic 8 Days Tour

Xinjiang Silk Road Journey from 

Kashgar to Urumqi

A life-time Adventure is waiting for you

Trip overview

■ Day 1:Kashgar Arrival✈️

■ Day 2:Kashgar🚍Shipton Arh (220kms, 2.5 driving)

■ Day 3:Kashagar🚍Oytagh Glacier Park (100+kms, 2hrs driving)

■ Day 4:Kashgar✈️Urumqi

■ Day 5:Urumqi🚍Heavenly Lake (120kms, 1.5hrs driving)

■ Day 6:Urumqi🚍Turpan (200kms, 3hrs driving)

■ Day 7:Turpan🚍Urumqi

■ Day 8:Urumqi✈️Your Destination

Scan the Code to Book!

Highlights

 ☄Kashgar

Turpan

 ☄ the best place for you to know the Silk Road Culture.

 ☄ Heavenly Lake

☄ Sunday Market

Find a late moring to walk into the  incredible Kashgar Sunday Market that used to be a great place to meet locals, merchants and travelers along the Silk Road.Nowdays, still many local will shif the Sheeps and cow to exchange in the local market. They will talk and bargin with hand language  cover by sleeves that outsider can not understand at all.

☄ Jiaohe Ruins

Jiaohe Ruins in Turpan, which is one of the most visually spectacular ruins of the old Silk Road.

Xinjiang Food

Detailed Itinerary

Day1

Kashgar Arrival✈️

Today you will catch the flight to Kashgar. Our guide will welcome you at the airport with a welcome board, then bring you to the downtown hotel and check in. The rest time is for you to take a good rest or hang around on your own.

🛌 Accommodation: In Kashgar

Day2

Kashgar🚍Shipton Arh (220kms, 2.5hrs driving)

After breakfast and then visit Shipton Arh, the first activated stone Museum of geological movement change in China and an excellent Global Geopark. It has a total length of about 30 kilometers, with high cliffs on both sides, just like a mountain torn apart by force. At the same time, the mountain changes in different periods of the Grand Canyon have recorded the whole process of the geological crustal movement in Xinjiang in the past 400 million years, which can be called the living fossil exhibition hall and Geological Museum of the geological crustal changes in China and even the world.

🚗 Transportation: car

🛌 Accommodation: In Kashgar

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

⛰ 1298m

Day3

Kashagar🚍Oytagh Glacier Park (100+kms, 2hrs driving)

In the morning, enjoy your nice buffet breakfast. Our guide and driver will meet you at hotel lobby to start the adventure. We will  firstly pay a visit to the famous Sunday bazaar that is combined two section. The covered bazaar sells the clothing, nuts, household goods and many things out of your imagination. The outdoor Animal Bazaar is the first bazaar we visit, where the farmers and buyers arriving by donkey cart, truck, bicycle, horseback, motorbike or on foot, with their animals. It's loud, lively and cheerful as they arrive. It is quite interesting to witness their typical methods of bargain. Then driving on the China - Pakistan Highway. You can enjoy the beautiful landscape of Pamirs Plateau - a large plateau of the Pamirs Mt, with altitude, ranges around 2500m - 3500m, mountain peaks as high as 7000m along the way.

You can also see the magnificent Oytag Glacier Park 

🚗 Transportation: car

🛌 Accommodation: In Kashgar

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

⛰ 1298m

Day4

Kashgar✈️Urumqi

Meet your guide and driver at the hotel lobby after breakfast and then we will do full day Kashgar city excursion. Visit the Idigar Mosque in the morning, the largest Mosque in China and the most sacred mosque for the locals to practice their Islamic activities. At around 10:30 we will visit the Old Town when the opening ceremony is ready to greet all the tourists with the culture show. Afterwards further exploration to the special culture and experience the lifestyle with the arrangements of the visiting to the local Uighur Family. The lunch is arranged in the local Restaurant. Our wonderful Kashgar city tour ends with the wandering to the bustling Handicraft street, dazzling jewelry, primitive pottery,unique musical instrument, daily resources of the locals.

Afterwards, say goodbye to Kashgar where you have amazing experience and we will go to the airport and catch the flight to Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang.

🚗 Transportation: car

🛌 Accommodation: In Urumqi

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

⛰ 800m

Day5

Urumqi🚍Heavenly Lake (120kms, 1.5hrs driving)

Drive to the picturesque Heavenly Lake ater breakfast, which is surrounded by the snow mountains, blooming wildflowers, evergreen pine trees. Trekking along the lake in the fresh air, or explore further to the Maya Mountain by the cable car to enjoy the magnificent view of the Mountains. Afterwards, transfer back to Urumqi which may take about 1.5hrs. Later we will visit the Xinjiang International Bazaar, the largest bazaar in Urumqi. You'll find a bustling market filled with fruit, clothing, crafts, knives, carpets and almost anything that you can imagine.

🚗 Transportation: car

🛌 Accommodation: In Urumqi

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

⛰ 800m

Day6

Day6

Urumqi🚍Turpan (200kms, 3hrs driving)

Today's trip starts with the 2-3 hours driving to Turpan. After passing by the wind power station which is the largest one in Asia spreading at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, following glimpse of Salt Lake in Dabancheng, we'll be amazed by the histroical sites and oasis land of Turpan. The oldest Uighur village Tuyoq Village located in the very center of Flaming Mountain Canyon should be on our must-visit list. It used to be the holy site of Buddhism and Islam. The village consists of four parts: Canyon scenery, Thousand Buddha Caves, Maza tomb and the old buildings of the ancient village. 

🚗 Transportation: car

🛌 Accommodation: In Turpan

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

⛰ 500m

Day7

Turpan🚍Urumqi

Morning departing from the hotel, we will head to the Karez Well, which is special kind of irrigation system, where you can not only visit this ancient irrigation system, but also get rid of the heat of summer. Then we will proceed to explore the Sugong Minaret, the largest Islamic minaret in China built in 1778. Then drive to enjoy the scenery of Jiaohe Ruins with a history of 2,300 years lies between two rivers on a loess plateau atop a cliff of over 30m. It is one of the best preserved ruins of its ancient era in China, it was include in the World Heritage List on June 22, 2014. Afterwards, drive back to Urumqi for overnight stay.

🚗 Transportation: car

🛌 Accommodation: In Urumqi

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

⛰ 800m

Day8

Urumqi✈️Your Destination

Free time on your own before your flight departs. Say goodbye to the most charming place Xinjiang. Then you will be transferred to the airport and back to your destination. Wish you a pleasant journey home!

🛌 No Accommodation

🍚 Meals: Breakfast

We may adjust the itinerary and hotels according to the local policies.

Inclusions

◽️Private transportation with good AC

◽️Excellent English speaking guide service

◽️Four-star hotel  (two persons shared one room)

◽️Entrance fee listed in the itinerary

◽️Airfare from Kashgar to Urumqi

◽️2 bottles of water each person on daily use.

◽️Government tax

◽️Travel insurance

Exclusions

◽️Personal expenses and tips to the guide and driver

◽️Full board meals

◽️Some activities such as boating, camel riding, culture show etc.

◽️Flight arrive in Kashgar and leave from Urumqi

How to book with us?

Please scan the QR code for more information :)

Phone: [phone] or 13550084402

Wechat ID:15198028734 or 13550084402

Email:[e-mail]

website:www.chinaadventure.og

Health&Safety Suggestion

a) It's recommended for you to take nucleci acid test before the tour start to have hassel-free trip. It's not required by the policy, but if circumstance change, that can ensure you smooth your travel journey.

b) Prepase to update your green health code in time, This code is an official notice that you have not been to the epidemic area in the past 14 days.

c) For your safety, please kindly wear the face mask during your whole journey.

d) Please be sure to bring the Residence Permit for foreigner

Book with US

Long Press the QR 

Code to book this 

trip.

Travel with China Adventure for your lifetime adventure!