The Panda Train has arrived in Xinjiang! Netizens: This train actually has a viewing seat! A 17-day itinerary covering 25 stations and 24 scenic spots!
2025 Let’s explore the 36 Western Regions with the Panda Special Train! The overall appearance of the special train is themed after pandas and adorned with unique Sanxingdui patterns. The interior highlights panda designs, featuring a cigar bar, chess and card room, and observation lounges. It also comes equipped with shower rooms and specialty dining cars, making it a newly designed high-end luxury tourist train! Panda Special Train Booking Customer Service Center for 2025: 180-9596-9599
A full itinerary of 17 days
Covering a distance of 10,336 kilometers
Crossing Sichuan, Gansu, and Xinjiang
Passing through 25 stations and 24 scenic spots
You’ve never seen a train trip like this before
This ‘Panda Train’ consists of 18 carriages, all of which are sleeper carriages, including standard quadruple rooms, premium quadruple rooms, luxury double rooms, and other room types.
The quadruple room is the first choice for family trips, equipped with two sets of bunk beds, as well as a coffee table, sofa, TV audio-visual system, reading lamp, USB charging sockets, and more.
The multifunctional carriage is a multi-purpose experience space integrating event parties, board games, tea tasting, and leisure. The seats on one side of the carriage face the windows, making it the most sought-after viewing seat where tourists can enjoy the scenery outside while sipping tea.
During the 17-day itinerary, the ‘Panda Train’ will take tourists to Urumqi, Altay, Yili, Kuqa, Kashgar, Turpan, and other destinations, enjoying scenic spots such as Jiangbulake, Tianshan Heavenly Lake, Kanas, Nalati Grassland, Sayram Lake, Kuqa王府 (王府 refers to a nobleman’s mansion, but as it’s part of a scenic spot name, it remains untranslated here), Duku Highway, Mysterious Tianshan Grand Canyon, Baisha Lake, Flaming Mountain, and more.
What are the advantages of tourist trains?
One-stop service: Tourist trains utilize exclusive customized trains, where tourists can enjoy services such as transportation, accommodation, dining, and scenic spot tickets throughout the journey upon purchase.
Multiple destinations in one trip: Leveraging the advantage of exclusive customized routes, tourist trains can cover all the quality attractions along the route in one journey, with the train moving as per the tourists’ schedule, halting at scenic spots, and traveling at night while tourists enjoy the day.
One berth to the end: The tourist special train offers one berth service throughout without transfers or changes in berths. Large (non-valuable) luggage does not need to be disembarked. The entire train is for special train tourists only, with no other passengers boarding or disembarking midway, ensuring privacy.
Thoughtful Service: The tourist special train is equipped with not only multifunctional entertainment facilities but also train attendants, tour guides, and medical personnel on board to ensure orderly and cozy travel for tourists, especially for elderly travelers traveling alone, so their families can rest assured.
2025 Let’s explore the 36 Western Regions with the Panda Special Train! The overall appearance of the special train is themed after pandas and adorned with unique Sanxingdui patterns. The interior highlights panda designs, featuring a cigar bar, chess and card room, and observation lounges. It also comes equipped with shower rooms and specialty dining cars, making it a newly designed high-end luxury tourist train! Panda Special Train Booking Customer Service Center for 2025: 180-9596-9599
16-day Sunset Red Xinjiang Special Train Tour / Panda Special Train Xinjiang Travel Price Itinerary Schedule
D1 Chengdu/Lanzhou – Urumqi / Train meal Train meal Panda Train
D2 Arrive in Urumqi Train breakfast Train meal Train meal Urumqi
D3 Urumqi – Tianshan Heavenly Lake – Lovely Xinjiang Welcome Dinner – Beitun Hotel breakfast Dinner Lovely Xinjiang Panda Train
D4 Beitun – Hemu Train breakfast Dinner Dinner Hemu
D5 Hemu – Kanas Hotel breakfast Dinner Dinner Kanas
D6 Kanas – Colorful Beach – Burqin – Beitun – Yining Hotel breakfast Coldwater Fish Train meal Panda Train
D7 Yining – Sayram Lake -霍尔果斯Port – Yining Train breakfast Dinner Dinner Yining
D8 Yining – Karakjun Grassland – Nalati Town Hotel breakfast Lamb Chop Noodles Dinner Nalati
D9 Nalati Grassland – Tianshan Flower Sea – Yining – Kuqa Hotel breakfast Stewed Mutton Dinner Panda Train
D10 Kuqa – Mysterious Tianshan Grand Canyon – Kashgar Train breakfast Train meal Dinner Panda Train
D11 Kashgar – Karakul Lake – Dragon’s Coil Highway – Taxkorgan Train breakfast Road meal Yak Beef Hot Pot Taxkorgan
D12 Taxkorgan – Golden Grass Beach – Stone City – White Sand Lake – Kashgar Hotel breakfast Road meal Dinner Kashgar
D13 Kashgar – Kashgar Old City – Id Kah Mosque – Xiangfei Garden – Korla Hotel breakfast Halal meal Dinner Panda Train
D14 Korla – Lop Nur Village – Turpan Meatball Soup Roast Whole Sheep Train meal Turpan
D15 Turpan – Flaming Mountain – Kanerjing – Fruit Banquet – Grape Valley – Return Hotel breakfast Fruit banquet Dinner Panda Train
D16 Train in operation (Lanzhou disembarkation time is around 9 PM) Train breakfast Train meal Train meal Panda Train
D17 Arrive in Chengdu
16-day Sunset Red Xinjiang Special Train Tour / Panda Special Train Xinjiang Travel Price Itinerary Schedule
Departure dates: June 13th, June 30th; July 17th; August 3rd, August 20th; September 6th, September 23rd
(Departing from Chengdu/Lanzhou)
Chengdu/Lanzhou departure and return: Luxury Panda Train Guige carriage
【Guige Standard 4-person Room】Upper bunk: 20999 yuan/person, Lower bunk: 21999 yuan/person
【Guige Upgraded 2-person Room】Lower bunk: 26999 yuan/person
Special reminder: The quotation for the September schedule needs to be increased by 1000 yuan/person on top of the above, please be informed!!
Note: The entire carriage can carry 40 passengers conventionally, with 2 shower rooms, and the rooms are 4-berth bunk beds/room;
Single room supplement: June single room supplement is 4000 yuan/person, July-September single room supplement is 4500 yuan/person (one person in a room on land)
South Xinjiang route suggestions:
1⃣If you only have 3-5 days, it is recommended to land at Kashgar Airport and only take the Kashgar + Tajik Autonomous County route. 😃 Kashgar Old City is full of historical charm and exoticism, and the natural scenery of Tajik Autonomous County is magnificent.
2⃣If you have 6-7 days, you can take the Kashgar + Tajik Autonomous County + Aksu / Hotan route, and you can land in Kashgar or Urumqi. 😉 Aksu and Hotan also have many places worth visiting, making your trip more colorful.
3⃣If you have more than 10 days, you can take the North-South Xinjiang Grand Circle Route, and if the Duku Highway is open, you can also take it. 😃 The North-South Xinjiang Grand Circle Route allows you to experience the whole picture of Xinjiang, and the Duku Highway is even more of a beautiful scenic route.
6-day Kashgar route
Day 1 Assembly Day: One-day tour of Kashgar Old City, overnight in Kashgar
1. Citywalk recommended route: Flowerpot Bazaar, Oil Painting Street, Cloth Bag Alley, Old City Corner Café, Grandpa Bayi’s House, Khan Bazaar, Hat Bazaar, Herb Bazaar;
Day 2 Kashgar — White Sand Lake — Muji Caldera — Tajik Autonomous County, overnight in Tajik Autonomous County;
Day 3 Tajik Autonomous County — Stone City on the Golden Grass Beach (Watch Sunrise) — Panlong
Ancient Road — Bandir Blue Lake — Wakhan Corridor — Tajik Autonomous County, overnight in Tajik Autonomous County;
Day 4 Tajik Autonomous County — Tahman Wetland — Oytag Glacier Park — Kashgar, overnight in Kashgar;
Day 5 Kashgar — Shache Ancient City — Yarkand Khanate — Century-old Teahouse — Kashgar, overnight in Kashgar;
Day 6 Kashgar — Westernmost Point — The Junction of the Tianshan and Kunlun Mountains
—Irkeshtam Port — Smakhna Village — Kashgar;
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