1-Day Side Trip to Turpan

- Urumqi - Turpan Tour

Trip Highlights - Attractions involved: the Buddhist Bezelkik Caves of Turpan is the most important tour spot of the city. Turpan, located some 180km southeast of Urumqi in the east part of Xinjiang Province, is one of the few basin areas below the sea level in the world. The basin is a narrow, long stretch of land covering a total area of fifty thousand square kilometers, with Kurultag Mountain to the south and Bogda Mountain to the north. We kindly offer a One Day Side trip from Urumqi to Turpan with excellent service and competitive rates to you.
Availability: Daily.      Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:30am.      Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.      Duration: 8 hours.

Tour Itinerary: (Lunch)
This morning you will be picked up at your hotel and driven to Turpan. There you will first visit the Buddhist Bezelkik Caves. These are some of the most important Buddhist grottoes in China. Afterwards you will visit the Flaming Mountains, which are made up of red sandstone. After lunch, you will visit the famous Ancient Ruined City of Gaochang, an important garrison for this region of China during the Western Han and Tang Dynasties. It is the largest, oldest and best preserved ancient city in China. Afterwards, you will be driven back to Urumqi.
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Attraction Description
The Buddhist Bezelkik Caves
The Bizaklik Caves were created during the ancient Huihu State and the inscriptions in the caves are written in Uigar, Chinese and other languages. There are several caves that have hundreds of murals; however, the murals have been destroyed several times by different groups of people or periods: vandals, religious clashes and foreign explorers. Yet, there are still several caves left that show the beauty and originality of the murals. Caves 16, 17 and 33 are the best preserved in the complex...
Gaochang Ruins
The Ancient City of Gaochang is located near the Flaming Mountains and southeast of Turpan. The city was constructed in the first century B.C. and was first called Gaochangbi. However, during the 14th century, the city was burned down by wars. The city walls are still intact and divide the city into three parts: the inner, outer and palace. The inner city, situated right in the middle of the outer city, has a perimeter of 3 kilometers (2 miles). The western and southern parts of the city walls are well...
Flaming Mountain
In the best-known Chinese novel "Journey to the West", the Flaming Hill in the novel is the mountain fill with different evil characters who fight with the high monk Tang and his three disciples. Well, it dose exist in the reality. Located on the northern edge of the Turpan Basin, Flaming Hill is about 10 kilometers east of downtown Turpan, covering about 100 km (62miles) from east to west with a width of 9 km (5.6miles). The average height is 500m (1640feet) with an average temperature of 30 degrees...