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♦ Taklimakan Desert
Taklimakan Desert is a desert in Central Asia, located in the central of Tarim Basin, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Prefecture, China. Covering a total area of 270,000 square kilometers, this desert is the 17th largest desert in the world. In Uyghur language, “Taklimakan” means “a place to leave behind”. Some accounts even claim that “Taklimakan” means “go in and you will never go out”.
As the name suggests, Taklimakan Desert is harsh and hazardous to cross because there is very little water in the desert. Taklimakan Desert is home to several oasis towns along the famous Silk Road. Many archeological treasures were found here buried under the sand. Mummies, some 4,000 years old, have also been found in the region.
♦ Urumqi
Urumqi is an isolated out-post of the ancient Silk Road. The city once was an important transportation hub on the Silk Road, and now serves as the capital city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In here, you can visit to Tianchi Lake, Southern Pasture and Erdaoqiao Grand Bazaar.
♦ Turpan
Turpan, an oasis city, is located at the southern foot of Bogda Peak and in the center of Turpan Depression. Because of the drastic 5,000-meter difference in height between the mountain tops and the bottom of the depression, the scenery too, varies greatly at different altitudes from perpetual snow at the summits to green oasis at the foot of the mountains. In here, you can visit to Jiaohe Ancient City, Grape Valley, and Flaming Mountain to experience different aspect of Xinjiang.
Tianchi Lake
♦ Kashgar
Kashgar has been an important trading center since the days of the Silk Road, and still is today. The road from Eastern and Central China branches out to both the north and south of the Taklamakan Desert, and Kashgar is where the two branches meet again in the western part of the desert. In here, you can visit to Apak Hoja Tomb, Id Kah Mosque, and Karakul Lake to enjoy the local culture and custom.
Transport
Xinjiang is located in the northwest frontiers with vast territory; the traffic problem has long been one of the bottlenecks of its economic development. Through more than 50 years of construction Xinjiang has initially formed on the basis of highway, railway as the backbone, including civil aviation, the oil and gas pipeline and so on four modes of transportation, connected areas around Xinjiang (state, city and county) and outreached the eastern region and neighboring countries integrated transport network. in the west. By the end of 2005, the Xinjiang highway traffic total mileage reached 89500 kilometers, the highway 541 kilometers, and the first class road 883 kilometers.
► Air
Xinjiang Aviation Company was established in 1985, and in 2002 Xinjiang airlines incorporated into China southern airlines. Xinjiang has 22 airports (including new construction, and relocation), the Urumqi Diwopu International Airport, Kashgar International Airport, Hotan airport, Yarkand Airport (new), Tazhong Airport (new), and so on, it is the province that has the largest number of airports in the domestic. The Urumqi Diwopu International Airport has become China's fourth largest international airport.
Urumqi, Xinjiang has opened to air traffic with 51 cities in mainland and six countries and regions. Urumqi has opened up flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Haikou, Harbin, Dalian, Qingdao, Jinan, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Kunming, Zhangjiajie and Dunhuang of 55 domestic routes, etc. And it has opened up flights from Urumqi to Almaty, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Islamabad, Bishkek, Yekaterinburg six international routes. The air line are 140000 miles.
►Train
On November 16, 2014, Lanxin high speed rail (from south Urumqi to Hami) was opened; marked Xinjiang officially went into the era of high-speed rail. After the high speed rail being operation its speed was 200 km that the running time from Urumqi to hami was cut down from 5 hours to 3 hours.
Festival
Corban Festival is the grand festival of Hui, Uygur, Kazak, Uzbek, Tajik, Tatar, Kirgiz, Salar, Dongxiang, Baoan and other minority. "Corban" in Arabic called Eid al-Adha. Eid is the meaning of the festival. Corban contains the meaning of "sacrifice" and "dedication", so general called the festival "Eid-ul-Adha" or "Eid al-Adha”. Corban festival is one of the grandest festivals, China's Xinjiang Uygur, Kazak, Kirgiz minorities would transliterate it into "Kurban festival". Corban Festival opened in the Islamic calendar December 10; people celebrated this festival by holding ceremony, slaughtering goat and cow, and dine together. During the holiday, Kazak, Kirgiz, Tajik,
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