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Day
01 Friday
Group will be met and picked up at the border and further transfer
down to Kashgar. Check in your hotel (Xing Long hotel, or Wenzhou
Dasha Hotel, both are 3 star hotels)
Day
02 Saturday Climb up to the Chinese Pamir along the famous
Karakorum Highway until arriving at the Karakul Lake. Hiking around.
People will enjoy the beautiful landscape of the wild land and
splendid Mt Mustagh Ata (7546 m) and Mt Kongur (7719) which are
highest peaks in the Western Kunlun Mmoutains. Drive back to Kashgar
in the late afternoon. The driving from Kashgar normally takes
4 hours and it takes 3 hours to come back to Kashgar. The altitude
at the lake is about 3500 meters above the sea level
 Day
03 Sunday As you know, people will spend all day in the
famous Sunday-market. Sunday is bazaar day in Kashgar, site of
perhaps the largest and longest running bazaar in Central Asia.
As many as 100,000 people come in from surrounding areas to buy
and sell animals and goods. Early in the morning you can see streams
of people in donkey carts coming in to market. There are separate
areas for animals, furniture, fabric, clothing, shish kebobs,
shaves with a straight razor (including scalp), fruits and vegetables,
and much more. In the animal bazaar care needs to be exhibited
as horses and donkeys are being testdriven". Also in the
animal bazaar you can find cattle, sheep, goats, and camels -
all in a fairly small, walled-in area. When you are in the midst
of all this, you may feel like you have stepped back in time several
hundred years. After breakfast you will be free to roam the bazaar
or to go along with a guide who will translate Uighur for you.
Stay in your Hotel
Day
04 Monday Do visit the famous Abahjia Tombs and the Aitigar
Mosque and take a walk in the Handcraft Lanes. Do visit a local
family at lunch time and share your lunch togher with this local
family. Leave for the Railway station and catch your train K888
at 17:50 pm. Stay for night on the train.
Day
05 Tuesday It takes 22 hour by train to arrive at Turfan
and transfer to your hotel, the Oasis Hotel (2 star hotel but
the best one in the town), Relaxing in the afternoon. Enjoy the
local singing and dancing performance under the grape trees after
your dinner.
Day
06 Wednesday After your breakfast, do your sightseeing
in this Buddha culture area, starting from the East, visit the
famous Gaochang ancient city ruin, Astana tomb area under the
ground, the famous Bezlak Buddha caves, lunch is served in the
beautiful grape Valley. Continue to visit the Imi tower Mosque
after your lunch. On the way to Urumqi, do visit another famous
city ruin which named Jiaohe, and do not forget to visit the great
ancient irrigation system at last, which is longer than hundreds
kilometers under ground. Arrive at your hotel and check in (the
Yin Du Hotel 5 star level, or the Urumqi Holiday Inn, 4 star level).
Climb up by bus to the top of the Red Hill, the highest point
in this city to get the bird views of the whole city, then take
a walk in the biggest Night Food Market.
 Day
07 Thursday Leave for the Heavenly Lake. the driving
takes 2 hours to arrive at the lake, which is located at the foot
of Mt.Bogda. the highest peak in the east part of Tianshan Mountains.
The altitude of the lake is about 1900 meters above the sea level.
Go and visit some local Kazak families in the yurts in the forests.
Lunch is arranged in the yurt. Take a boat trip on the lake in
the afternoon. Come back to Urumqi and it takes you 2 hours to
visit the Xinjiang Historical Museum, which you worth to visit
!
Day
08 Friday People should have to get up earlier and go
to the Peoples¡¯ Square to visit the Chinese people doing their
morning exercises, where you will see: some people play Taiji
Boxing, some people play Beijing Opera, some people dance, some
people play the Yang Ge, a kind of traditional Chinese dancing
¡ After your breakfast in your hotel, go and visit the huge, typical
Xinjiang Bazaar. Catch up your train 1044 at 13:30 pm to Xi¡¯an.
Stay for night on the train. It normally takes 44 hours.
Day
09 Saturday On the train
Day 10 Arrive at Xi¡¯an at 12:57 and further transfer
to your hotel (Mei Lun Hotel, 4 star level). Visit the big Wild
Goose Pagoda, Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, enjoy the Tang style
performance at night. After the performance, climb up to the top
of the great ancient City Walls to get the bird views of this
ancient capital.
Day
11 One more day for sightseeing, go and visit the Terracotta
Army, Banpo Museum and the famous Stele Forests in the late afternoon.
Catch up your train T41 at 17:45 pm to Beijing. Night on the train.
Day
12 Arrive at Beijing at 07:22 and transfer to your hotel
and check in (The Beijing International Hotel, 4 star level),
take a ride by your bus to go to visit the Forbidden City in the
whole morning. After your lunch in the street, enjoy your another
kind of tour by Man-Pulling carts in the traditional Chinese Lanes,
then take a walk in the Tiannanmen Square, after your dinner in
the street, visit the traditional Chinese Tea House to enjoy the
Beijing Operate and other traditional Chinese performances;
Day
13 Go to the Great Wall and come back to your hotel in
the evening
Day 14 Leave for the airport and all the services
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