May Day Xinjiang Travel | Yili Loop 7-Day Attractions + Itinerary Guide
Some say🌈 when nature is biased enough, it forgets balance and puts all the 'stunning beauty' into the same painting~ This is the true portrayal of the beauty of Yili!!
Highly recommend to friends who don't know where to go for May Day~
Snow mountains, lakes, Gobi, canyons, sea of flowers, grasslands, forests, everything you want is here, plus a 7-day travel itinerary oh~~
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🎯Itinerary Highlights
✔️7-day in-depth experience of Yili's popular + niche attractions
✔️Self-drive around Sayram Lake with ample playtime
✔️Free and comfortable itinerary, reasonable planning with stops at will
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🎨Essential Attractions
Guozigou Bridge: The towering bridge spans between the blue sky and white clouds, heading north to Sayram Lake, south to the Ili River Valley, with canyons filled with characteristic fruit trees such as apples, walnuts, and apricots
Tips: Open all day for free💰, note that parking on the bridge is not allowed, it is recommended to bring a drone for shooting📸
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Sayram Lake: The blue of the plateau lake sets off the colorful prairie flower sea, with the distant snow mountains winding and long, the clear lake water reflecting the playful swans, making this place full of infinite vitality
Tips: Enter the scenic area from the east gate and play counterclockwise, there are accommodations near the south gate closer to the popular S Bay
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Xia Ta: Snow mountains and glaciers blend with forests and grass seas, the landscape is rich in layers, it is the grassland landscape closest to the snow mountains in the Yili area, and also a holy land for hiking enthusiasts
Tips: Plan to ride horses, it is recommended to book early or queue; the last interval car down the mountain departs at 8 pm🚋
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Tangbula Hundred Mile Gallery: 'Natural long scroll, hundred-mile gallery', Fairy Lake set against the green sea of grass, wildflowers blooming everywhere🌸 surrounded by lush forests, a little-known fairyland
Tips: No🎫 but not many accommodations around, walking is tiring, it is recommended to ride horses or bicycles
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Kuerdening: Hike through dense spruce forests and vast grasslands, check in at the real-life movie scene in the log cabin🏠, comparable to the dreamy grasslands of Switzerland
Tips: No need to buy tickets in advance, you can buy tickets on-site📱, the price for horse riding in the scenic area is about 80/h
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Qiongkushitai: Comic-like blue sky and white clouds☁️, green grasslands dotted with fresh flowers, cattle and sheep freely wandering on the slopes, fully enjoy the pure beauty of nature
Tips: The road conditions behind the mountain are not very good, you can prepare motion sickness pills💊 just in case
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🚘Itinerary
D1⃣️Urumqi - Sayram Lake - Guozigou Bridge - Yining
D2⃣️Yining - Xiatage Ancient Trail - Zhaosu
D3⃣️Zhaosu - Qiongkushitai - Tekes
D4⃣️Tekes - Qiaxi Grassland - Kuerdening - Xinyuan
D5⃣️Xinyuan - Narat Grassland - Narat
D6⃣️Narat - Tangbula Hundred Mile Gallery - Mengketi Scenic Area - Northern Section of Duku Highway - Kuitun
D7⃣️Kuitun - Anjihai Grand Canyon - s101 Highway Selection - Urumqi
All the way to the west to Yining City, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, participate in a day trip to Ctrip, go to Sailimu Lake Road, Cheguan Guozigou Bridge, S-type road through the uphill tunnel to go up the bridge, the bridge is 180 meters from the ground, the scenery on both sides is different, one side is the forest, the other is the grass.
Guozigou Bridge is one of the bridges on Lianhuo Expressway, but it is the most expensive bridge in the country. Guozigou Bridge starts from Mengqiongkule in the north, crosses the Guozigou Canyon, and goes south to the Generalgou Tunnel. The line is4.4 kilometers long and the bridge is 700 meters long. The 700-meter bridge costs 23.9 billion yuan. The cost of a single meter is 3.4 million yuan.
Guozigou Special Bridge is the control and landmark project of Saiguo Expressway Project, the total length is 700 meters, the span of the special bridge is 330 meters, the main tower height is 209 meters and 215.5 meters, it is the first double tower double cable steel truss bridge in China, and the highest road bridge in Xinjiang. Guozigou Bridge, as the first cable-stayed bridge of steel truss beams in the country, is also the first high-rise bridge in Xinjiang. It is the control and landmark project of Sailimu Lake to Guozigou Expressway in Lianhuo Expressway in China. It integrates new technologies, new structures, new processes and new equipment. It is a major breakthrough in the history of Xinjiang highway construction.
Guozigou Bridge (Guozigou Bridge), a high-speed passageway in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, is located on the Guozigou Canyon. It is one of the main components of Lianyungang-Horgos Expressway (National Expressway G30), and is also an important people's livelihood project in Xinjiang. The construction of the Guozigou Bridge began on August 16, 2006; the main bridge Helong project was completed on August 28, 2010, and the bridge was opened to traffic on September 30, 2011. The Guozigou Bridge starts in the north of Mengqiongkule, goes up the Guozigou Canyon, and goes south to the Generalgou Tunnel. The full length of the line is 4.4 kilometers, and the bridge is 700 meters long; the bridge is a two-way four-lane expressway, and the design speed is 80 kilometers/hour.
Guozigou Bridge is a two-tower double-cable steel truss beam cable-stayed bridge. The bridge is up to 200 meters away from the bottom of the valley. It is the largest and most important bridge in Xinjiang. The bridge body and the beauty of Guozigou are integrated.  car