Ili Travel Guide – Essential Guide for Visiting Ili in Xinjiang

　　Ili Travel Guide – Essential Guide for Visiting Ili in Xinjiang​

　　Starting from April​

　　There is a place in Xinjiang​

　　Gradually entering the most beautiful season of the year​

　　The vegetation is lush, the fields are fragrant, and flowers bloom one after another​

　　It lasts until July, with a breathtaking sea of flowers​

　　It is Ili​

　　Ili is known as the ‘Jiangnan Beyond the Great Wall’ and the ‘Western Regions Wet Island’. Some say that you haven’t been to Xinjiang if you haven’t been to Ili, which shows that Ili’s position in Xinjiang is irreplaceable! When most of the country enters the warm spring, the ice and snow in Ili have not yet melted. When other places usher in summer, Ili has just begun to enter early spring. It can be said that spring in Ili always comes later, but of course, it is also more beautiful…​

　　Starting from April,​

　　Where in Ili is worth visiting?​

　　Let’s take a look at each one below:​

　　Tulgen Township Apricot Flower Valley​

　　Galloping on horseback to see all the spring scenery of the world​

　　(Early to mid-April in Ili)​

　　Sayram Lake Grassland​

　　The colorful tears of the Atlantic Ocean – ‘Blue sky, green lake, verdant grassland…’ Stepping into Sayram Lake, one is immersed in the fairyland grassland sung in Tengger’s ‘Heaven’… In the song, the faint sadness and endless longing are like fragrant flowers covering the entire grassland…​

　　Xiate Ancient Road​

　　A fascinating hiking landscape​

　　(Ili in late May each year) The Xiate Ancient Road is a famous ancient pass on the Silk Road, also known as the Tang Monk’s Ancient Road. Here there are continuous Muzart Glaciers, dense forests, honest herdsmen, and quiet and vast grasslands. On both sides are alpine grassland pine forests, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. Wildflowers bloom, bees and butterflies fly, horses run, and eagles soar. Next to it is a big river with snowmelt flowing through. Flowers, grasslands, rivers, strange rocks, pine forests, cows and sheep… It is absolutely breathtaking, creating an original paradise on earth!​

　　Huocheng Lavender​

　　Domestic purple dreamland​

　　(June each year)​

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　　Every summer, Huocheng in Xinjiang, one of the eight famous lavender producing areas in the world, begins to show its new face. The purple-blue sea of flowers undulates with the wind, as if it is a dream extending over the earth. For tens of miles around, it is enveloped in the fragrant scent of lavender, as if it can seep into the blood and soul. Everyone who has visited Huocheng, Ili at this time has been amazed by the pastoral scenery of lavender. It deserves to be called the "Provence of China"!​

　　Zhaosu Rapeseed Flowers​

　　Heaven is far away, but Zhaosu is near​

　　(From the end of June to July each year) Compared to other places in China, the rapeseed flowers in Zhaosu bloom the latest, as seeds are sown in April each year and only bloom in patches until early July. From the end of June to early July each year, the endless rapeseed flowers are like golden woven blankets sweeping across the vast Zhaosu grassland, reflecting the Tianshan Mountains in the distance. The magnificent beauty of the sea of flowers will astonish everyone!​

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