Suzhou→Shanglqiu→Lanzhou→Turpan→Ataile area (Beitun→Burqin→Jiadengyu→Hemu→Kanas→Baihaba→Baihaba County→Burqin→Beitun)→Urumqi→Suzhou
9\13 Suzhou→Shangqiu
Shangqiu City is my hometown. I went back to my hometown and spent the Mid-Autumn Festival with my family before starting my trip to Xinjiang (by the way, I visited the Shangqiu Ancient City Scenic Spot)
9/15 Shangqiu → Lanzhou (high-speed rail)
Lanzhou Sinbad Youth Hostel
9/16 Lanzhou → Turpan (train)
9/17 Turpan Sightseeing
On my first day in Xinjiang and his last day in Xinjiang, we visited Jiaohe Ancient City and Turpan Museum together.
9/Bai 18l day by car from Turpan Passenger Station to Flame Mountain
9/19 morning to Burqin
Accommodation: Border Town Inn
The hostel is very close to the Russian style street and night market
I carpooled with Xiao Qing, my roommate from the youth hostel, to Wucai Beach to watch the sunset, but I couldn’t get a taxi on the way back. A car stopped and offered to pick us up, but they only had one vacant seat. I asked my roommate to take the car first. I planned to go out and hitch a ride on the side of the road. It was already getting dark, and when we got to the side of the road, a traffic policeman was clearing the tourist vehicles and asked me how to get back. After I answered him, he said, wait a minute and I will stop a car for you. After five minutes, he helped me stop a private car with only three people in it. There were two ladies and one man in the car. I am very grateful to the Xinjiang traffic police, I was moved to tears. (Thanks to the Xinjiang traffic police, salute)
9\20 Mailan and Xiaoqing, whom I met with the Youth Hostel, set off from Burqin at noon, and arrived at Jiadengyu at 4:00 pm, then entered the mountain and started hiking (Xinjiang time is two hours later than Beijing time)
Jia Dengyu→The Halfway Inn on the Mountain
We arrived at the Halfway Inn between Jia Dengyu and Hemu at 9 o'clock in northern Xinjiang time. At 8 o'clock, we met kind Larry who used his horse to help us with our luggage and went to the Halfway Inn first.
The original bathroom of the halfway inn
9\21 Halfway Inn→Hemu walk about 15KM
Larry, the local guide, brought three horses with him. A Taiwanese guest took the same route as us and often met on the road.
The section from Jiadengyu to Hemu is an autumn pasture, and you can also see cattle and horses
Depart from Shanzhong Halfway Inn at 9:00 am and arrive at Hemu Village at 4:00 pm
9\22 Hemu→Xiaohei Lake
It takes two days to travel from Hemu to Kanas, passing through Xiaohei Lake for one night on the way. When trekking to Kanas, you need to register and write a letter of guarantee at the Hemu Village Police Office (you are responsible for it) and ask for a guide, because I met Larry two days ago on the trek and he helped us to register without charging the guide fee. On the mountain road from Hemu to Kanas, I was with Lanmai, and Xiaoqing decided to take a car on the road.
The section from Hemu to Kanas has a higher altitude and belongs to the summer pasture, and the cattle and sheep on the mountain have been driven down.
The whole journey from Hemu to Xiaoheihu is 20KM uphill, most of the roads are 9AM-7PM and there is no signal in the whole journey
9\23 Little Black Lake→Kanas
9\24 Kanas Scenic Area Inner Light One-day Tour
9\25 Kanas→Bai Haba. Originally planned to hike 20KM from Kanas to Baihaba. When applying for the border defense permit, the police officer said that the hike was prohibited due to the presence of wolves and other animals. There were several blisters, and I didn’t really want to leave, so I took the bus to Baihaba)
Compared with the hustle and bustle of tourists in Hemu and Kanas, Baihaba is much quieter
This youth hostel is in the old village, and the one where Beijing lives is in the new village. Go for a walk in the mountains with Jing after lunch
9\26 Baihaba Village→Baihaba County→Buerqin→Beitun (transfer to bus along the way)
Jing intends to stay one night in Baihaba and then go to Keketuohai. We parted ways in Baihaba
Beitun → Urumqi (night train)
Arrived in Urumqi in the morning on 9/27
I made a reservation at the wrong time and booked a bed for the night of 9/26, but the guy at the front desk still let me check in (but I can only rest until 2 pm, because the room is full on 9/27)
This is the most comfortable youth hostel I stayed in Xinjiang. In addition to bed rooms, they also have standard rooms and double rooms (it was recommended to me by Sen who met in Turpan)
I found the place I went to when I came to Xinjiang in the early summer of 2016
Piyazizi is my favorite kind of pouch
9/28 was the last day I stayed in Xinjiang, and I took the train back to Suzhou in the evening
The night before, I was still hesitating whether to go to the Tianshan Grand Canyon or the Urumqi Museum on the last day, and finally decided to go to the museum
I checked the map and walked more than 1 kilometer from the youth hostel, and then asked someone. It is said that the library is the Urumqi Museum. When I walked in, I found that there was only the history of Urumqi in it.
Then an Asian boy asked me in English, is there a mummy in this museum? I didn't know much about it, so I asked the staff, and they said that the mummy was in the Xinjiang District Museum, which is just the Urumqi City Museum. Then go to the mummy museum with this boy, he asked Jun Korean to travel alone.
I didn't look at the map on the way to the museum, I just asked people to go around a lot before arriving at the museum. After visiting the museum, we went to dinner together. By the time we finished eating, it was past four o’clock. I originally wanted to go to the Grand Bazaar together, but I wanted to go back to the youth hostel to take a shower before the train boarded at seven o’clock in the evening. Jun suggested that I still Do not visit the Grand Bazaar and have more time. We went to the youth hostel together, Jun waited for me at the front desk drinking coffee and then took me to the train station. He said that the hotel he was staying in was next to the train station, and we took a taxi together to the train station. He originally wanted to take me to the station, but he didn't have a ticket and the staff refused to let me in, so we parted.
Urumqi→Suzhou (36 hours hard sleeper)
9\29 on the train
9\30 Arrive in Suzhou before 12 am
Xinjiang trip ends
