Tour with Top China Travel, you will not miss any top attraction as well as special spot in Urumqi. As the provincial capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi is a city with modern factors and the unique ethnic culture as well. The famous Tianchi Lake which means lake in heaven may give you a breathless feeling. And the Southern Pasture is a vast land for visitors to get touch with this group on the horsebacks. Natural resorts, historic sites, modern architectures, no matter what kinds of attractions you are interested in, you can spend a leisure time by losing yourself in this charming city. The following attractions are introduced for your reference.

    The Tianchi Lake scenic area can be divided into four natural view belts: lower mountain belt, mountain coniferous forest belt, alpine and subalpine belt, and ice and snow belt. Riding a horse, one can, within one day, arrive at the foot of 5445-m high Bogda Peak that is the highest peak of the eastern Tianshan Mountains. Bogda is a Mongolian word, meaning “God”. The 5445-m high Bogda Peak was covered by ice and snow all the year round and thus like wearing a body armor, so ancient Mongolians thought that this was “God” and named it “Bogda”. The Bogda Peak is one of the mountain peaks chosen by Chinese and foreign mountain climbers for climbing sports.

    Tianchi literally means ' Heaven Lake ' or ' Heavenly Lake ' (in Mandarin Chinese) and can refer to several lakes in China and Taiwan.) Formerly known as Yaochi (Jade Lake), it was named Tianchi by Mingliang in 1783, the Qing Dynasty Commander of Urumqi Command.

Transport

1.From Urumqi People's Park, Hongshan (Red Hill) Hotel there are shuttle buses to Tianchi, 2 hours of driving. The first bus is at 7:40, and every 8 minutes interval departs a bus.

2. From Urumqi city taxi ride to Tianchi through highway, about one and a half hours to there, with a distance about 92.4 kilometer.

Route

Tianshan Tianchi scenic area is laying asphalt pavement, sand-gravel surface, and tourist vehicles can reach attractions inside through this road. And there are also the sidewalks, riding track s leading to any attractions in the scenic spot.

【One-day tour route】

Morning starting from Urumqi to Tianshan, first you can visit west small Tianchi- Tianshan Picea Schrenkiana-Tianshan scenery-big Tianchi-Bogda Snow Mountain- Viewing pine in South Mountain-Tiewa Temple (feel the Taoism culture) - boat trip to enjoy Tianshan scenery - return to Urumqi.