If Tibet is the closest place to heaven, then Xinjiang is the last piece of pure land left by heaven on earth.

It turns out that having a detailed guide and planning makes traveling easier.

The time chosen for this itinerary is also the most beautiful season in Yili, with green grasslands, white flocks, blue sky, fresh air, I love Xinjiang!

day1 Urumqi - Sailimu Lake

day2 Sailimu Lake - Huocheng - Yining

day3 Yining (stay in Yining for one more day due to weather)

day4 Yining - Zhaosu - Turks

day5 Turks - Kala Jun - Turks

day6 Turks - Bayinbulak

day7 Bayinbulak - Kuitun (temporary decision to stay in Kuitun)

day8 Kuitun - Urumqi

Important: ID card, passport, mobile phone, keys, wallet, driver's license, laptop, cash.

(When playing in Xinjiang, you must bring your ID card, ID card, and ID card with you!)

Clothing: thick/thin coats, daily summer clothes, UV protection clothes, multiple pairs of tall socks, hats, autumn clothes and long johns,

Hiking shoes/sneakers, slippers, sun protection armbands, flying towel.

Daily necessities: towels, moisture-proof pads, toiletries, sunscreen, umbrellas, raincoats, lighters, matches, knives, scissors,

Charging treasure, charger, thermos bottle, car safety instrument.

Food: fruit, mineral water, instant noodles, beef, staple food, sugar, snacks, refreshing, anti-motion sickness.

Medicine: cold, antidiarrheal, band-aid, plaster, anti-motion sickness, anti-mosquito, thermometer, antipyretic, anti-abrasion foot patch.

Route: Urumqi - Shawan - Sailimu Lake

Accommodation: Sailimu Lake yurt 150-250 per room (can accommodate more than 5 people)

Play: Tickets for Sailimu Lake are 70 yuan per person.

The picture below is the customized travel itinerary Xiaoli

Arrived in Shawan County at two noon, just in time for lunch. When you mention Shawan County, you will definitely think of Dapan Chicken and Potatoes! Here I strongly recommend the Qiaotou Dapan Chicken Headquarters to everyone.

Fortunately, I saw a small area of ​​flowers, haha

sea ​​of ​​flowers.

When the sun started to set, many tourist buses had left one after another, and only a few scattered tourists could be seen in the scenic area. We booked a yurt on the sunny hillside, and then we enjoyed the sunset time.

The whole scenic spot seems to be ours!

At first we wanted to eat finger meat from the owner of the yurt, a Kazakh uncle, but we Xinjiang people are very concerned about the quality of mutton, and the mutton he provided was not very good, so we only heated up the noon-packed mutton in his yurt Large plate of chicken, served with naan for a full meal.

The lamb of the owner of the yurt.

As night falls, although it is late June, the temperature difference in the mountainous grasslands is very large, and a stove is needed to keep warm at night. I originally planned to shoot star trails in the evening, but I was too frightened by the cold to leave the gate of the yurt. Although it's June and it's summer, the night temperature in the mountainous area is still very low, and a fire is needed to cover the quilt, so don't extinguish the stove by yourself, you will wake up from the cold, don't ask me how I know

Route: Sailimu Lake—Jieyou Princess Lavender—Horgos Port—Yining City

Accommodation: All Seasons Hotel Shanghai

Play: Lavender tickets are 20 per person, and the border is 60.

Lavender photography, essential oils, port food, border markers.

Remarks: ID card, passport (Horgos Port can enter directly with a passport, without a passport, you need to queue up to apply for a border pass)

Early morning at Sailimu Lake.

Get up early in the morning and come to the lake, rubbing your hands while warming up with heat, waiting for the sunrise.

Products from Russia, Kazakhstan and other countries can be purchased at the port, and chocolate candy desserts are a good choice.

The leisurely flock of pigeons on the streets of Yining.

Ainur Restaurants

In the season we went, the snow on the top of the mountain had not completely melted, and the grass was relatively green. It can be said that this is the most beautiful period of the Yili Highway.

The road is built on winding mountains.

There are many viewing platforms on the road where you can park and view the scenery. Driving here must obey the traffic rules and do not park at will.

I happened to meet a local Kazakh girl on a viewing platform, and the camera was full of sense~

I bought a white gauze skirt for taking pictures, but please ignore my rose red hole shoes, this mountain is mine! Ha ha

Xinjiang characteristics: the car must make way for the leisurely flock of sheep ~ haha

Zhaosu Grassland Scenic Area can be easily visited. It is a large circled grassland with a lot of flowers and ancient grassland stone figures.

The family has been obsessed with the yogurt pimples for several years, saying that the one in the scenic spot is the best he has ever eaten. It is made by hand with pure milk and costs 5 yuan a piece.

Grassland stone man.

Zhaosu is most famous for its rape blossoms. We arrived a little early, and the rape blossoms have not yet bloomed in a large area. It can be imagined that the blooming period must be a golden ocean, and it must be no worse than Wuyuan, haha.

Xiaojiuqu Shibawan

There are no five-color flowers in the five-flower meadow and flower terrace in June. If you want to see flowers, it is best to go in mid-to-late May.

Take the cable car from the Grand Canyon to East Kalajun.

You can see the river in the canyon from the cable car.

The Falcon Terrace is the climax of the entire Kalajun scenic spot. It is the afternoon when the sun is about to set and the light is warmest. Walk or ride a horse to the viewing platform of the Sanji Flattening Plane. It is recommended to ride a horse.

We were seriously lacking in physical strength when we walked, and had to ride horses on the return trip. We were also slaughtered. The locals could not escape the curse of slaughtering customers. The simplicity of the herdsmen is hard to see here, but the beauty of the scenery that caught my eye was slaughtered. I also recognized it and cried. . Before riding a horse, you must confirm with the herders the price of a person, the distance traveled by horseback riding, and the duration of the ride.

The beautiful flowers of Kalajun~~~~

Take the shuttle bus back to the visitor center, and pass by the most famous human body mountain in Kalajun on the way. Interested children's shoes can go to take pictures alone.

Almond trees in the visitor center.

The closer you get to Bayinbulak, the scenery on both sides of the road changes from towering mountains to vast mountain grasslands. The sun shines through the cracks in the dark clouds from time to time. Everything is so beautiful that it is unreal! Exclaiming all the way, I forgot to take a photo as a souvenir.

Bayinbulak Grassland is an alpine basin in the middle of Tianshan Mountains, surrounded by snow-capped mountains, with an altitude of about 2,500 meters and an area of ​​23,835 square kilometers. It is the second largest grassland in China, second only to the Ordos Grassland in Inner Mongolia. During the Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Yuledusi River Basin was mainly the nomadic belt of the Huite tribe in Moxi Mongolia. In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1774), the Torghut Mongolian tribe led by Ubashi who returned to the east was settled.

The most worth seeing here is the sunset with nine bends and eighteen bends. Looking at the weather today, let alone the sunset, the sun is probably hard to see, and I heard from the local herdsmen that the weather in the scenic spot is even more unpredictable, even in the county The sky is clear, and it often rains in the scenic area. In order not to delay the next trip, we decided to go ahead in the rain.

Security check and ticket purchase at the ticket office.

The ticket office is built in the shape of a super-large yurt, the decoration on the top is beautiful, and it is also decorated with murals of Donggui.

Due to our late arrival, many tour groups have already returned, coupled with the bad weather, there are very few tourists in the scenic area.

A small number of swans can be seen in Swan Lake. Since it has been raining and the temperature is very low, we did not stay too much.

The famous nine bends and eighteen bends, the fog is so thick that the horizon cannot be seen.

Unwilling to give up, I waited until the last car returned to the visitor center, and I didn't wait until the clouds cleared, so I had to return. The farther you go out of the scenic spot, the stronger the sunset light shines from under the thick dark clouds.

When arriving at the parking lot, Huoshaoyun made it seem like a fairyland.

The Huoshaoyun receded quickly. Although I didn't see the nine bends and eighteen bends under the sun on a sunny day, I was very happy to get the most beautiful Huoshaoyun by accident.

The town of Bayinbulak in the evening.

Duku Highway, the highway from Dushanzi to Kuqa. A highway with a total length of 561 kilometers connecting northern and southern Xinjiang. Across the high mountains, through the deep mountains and canyons, it connects many minority-inhabited areas. Its connection has shortened the distance between the north and the south of Xinjiang by nearly half from the original 1,000 kilometers, which can be regarded as a monument in the history of China's highway construction.

I like to observe the patterns formed by the vegetation and minerals on the rocks. The color matching of nature is always the most harmonious.

After visiting the memorial hall from Qiaoerma, take a detour to the Tangbula prairie. Tangbula Grassland is a natural landscape area integrating forests, grasslands, rapids, mountains and rocks, known as the Baili Gallery.

After a short rest along the river valley in Tangbula, we returned the same way, returned to Duku Highway again, and headed towards Kuitun.

The next section of the Duku Highway is more dangerous. Landslides and mudslides are prone to occur in rainy and snowy conditions. The road conditions are dangerous. It is recommended that friends with average driving skills do not enter the mountain alone. You can charter a car or a team to enter the mountain.

Gravel, boulders falling to the side of the road.

The higher you go to the top of the mountain, the higher the altitude. The snow on the top of the mountain does not melt all the year round, and you can see the snow wall that is taller than a person.

Snow corridor.

On the way, I saw a truck traveling in the opposite direction stuck in the road and was waiting for rescue.

After passing through a boring but dangerous road section, we finally ushered in the gentle Kangzhuang Avenue. Walking along this road, we arrived at Kuitun City.

Route: Kuitun - Shawan - Urumqi, detour to Shawan, and went to the Dapanji restaurant at the beginning of the itinerary again. Hahaha.