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North Xinjiang Loop: 16-Day In-Depth Travel Guide

You must visit Xinjiang at least once❗️North Xinjiang Loop: 16-Day In-Depth Travel Guide For those living amidst skyscrapers, Xinjiang feels like a utopia of life. 🖼️ Especially during this season, North Xinjiang becomes an unmissable travel destination of the year. ✈️ Here, you can witness colors that other grasslands don't have. Here, you can feel freedom, romance, and passion💕. Here, you can see herds of cattle and sheep, as well as starlit wooden cabins, allowing you to forget your worries and immerse yourself in the joy of travel🧳. 📷 Highlights: ✅ Kanas: Known as the "Garden of the Gods" and "Oriental Switzerland," it’s a place that will leave you enchanted🥰. ✅ Hemu: A fairytale-like village with bridges, streams, curling smoke, wildflowers, and starlit wooden cabins🏠, exuding a primitive and natural charm. ✅ Sayram Lake: With snow-capped mountains as its backdrop, the pure blue of Sayram Lake💦 is so beautiful that you won’t want to leave. ✅ Nalati Grassland: A must-visit destination in Xinjiang, featuring lush green meadows, herds of cattle and sheep, and skies that blend seamlessly with the mountains—like a dream come true🖼️. ✅ Duku Highway: A road where you can see snow-capped mountains, grasslands, lakes, galaxies, and deserts, experiencing the transition of seasons‼️. ✅ Colorful Beach: A river divides two banks, creating two distinct worlds. The vibrant colors of the beach🌈 are dazzling. 🚗 Recommended North Xinjiang Route: D1: Arrival in Urumqi D2: Urumqi - S21 Desert Highway - Burqin D3: Burqin - Hemu Scenic Area D4: Hemu - Kanas Scenic Area D5: Kanas - Colorful Beach - Urho D6: Urho - World Devil City - Bole D7: Bole - Sayram Lake - Yining D8: Yining - Yizhao Highway - Zhaosu D9: Zhaosu - Qiongkushitai D10: Qiongkushitai - Kalajun Scenic Area - Tekesi D11: Tekesi - Chaxi Forest Park - Gongliu D12: Gongliu - Tangbula Grassland - Xinyuan D13: Xinyuan - Nalati Grassland - Nalati D14: Nalati - Bayinbuluk Scenic Area - Bayinbuluk D15: Bayinbuluk - Duku Highway - Urumqi D16: Departure from Urumqi
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Posted: Jun 6, 2025
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