To support tourism in Xinjiang, the railway department has specially launched the ‘Travel Xinjiang by Train – Tianshan’ high-quality special tourist train, adopting the ‘special train + special vehicle’ mode to include the self-driving route of the Duku Highway in the itinerary. After disembarking from the Kuitun Station, passengers will be picked up by special vehicles to start their self-driving journey on the Duku Highway. After enjoying the trip, they will return to the Yili Station to continue their train journey, featuring ‘the train follows the passengers, and the passengers play while the train stops’, fully meeting the travel needs of passengers. Our agency offers various travel options for everyone to choose from, including special train tours, carpooling tours, group tours, and customized chartered tours. For detailed inquiries, please call: 181-3962-2233 (copy and add as a friend for detailed inquiries about Xinjiang travel itineraries and prices).
This ‘full-package’ service not only meets the passengers’ need for comfortable travel by train but also allows them to experience the fun of driving through the Duku Highway, truly realizing a worry-free trip throughout the journey.
The ‘Travel Xinjiang by Train – Tianshan’ high-quality special tourist train is one of the products under the ‘Travel Xinjiang by Train’ tourism brand. It is equipped with KTV, bars, dining carriages, and other facilities. Some compartments have private bathrooms. Comfortable fabrics are used for soft and hard bedding, which are ensured to be changed for each passenger during the journey, providing high-quality travel services for passengers to enjoy Xinjiang.
The entire train is equipped with sleeper seats, featuring three configurations: high-class sleeper carriages, soft sleeper carriages, and hard sleeper carriages. The carriages are decorated with different scenes for each carriage, selecting landscapes from six major regions including Altay, Aksu, Yili, Turpan, Hami, and Kashgar. Through hanging paintings and printing, the natural scenery and cultural folklore of Xinjiang are deeply integrated, allowing passengers to feel the strong ethnic customs as soon as they board the train.
The specific itinerary of the Tianshan Tourist Train is as follows:
Day 1: Departure – Urumqi (pick-up and hotel check-in)
Day 2: Urumqi – Tianshan Heavenly Lake – Beitun
Day 3: Beitun – Kanas – Jiadenyu
Day 4: Jiadenyu – Hemu – Beitun – Jinghe
Day 5: Jinghe – Sayram Lake – Horgos – Yining
Day 6: Yining – Nalati – Yining – Turpan
Day 7: Turpan (Grape Estate – Flaming Mountain – Kanerjing) – Kuqa
Day 8: Kuqa – Tianshan Grand Canyon – Kuqa王府 (王府 should be translated according to its specific meaning in context, here assumed as ‘王府’ is part of a historical site name) – Aksu
Day 9: Aksu – Shengmu Garden – Kashgar
Day 10: Kashgar – Karakul Lake – Kashgar
Day 11: Kashgar – Old Town – Mosque – Kashgar – Hotan
Day 12: Desert Observation Deck – Hotan Old Town – Hotan – Urumqi
Day 13: Arrive in Urumqi in the evening and check into the hotel
Day 14: Send the group according to the return flight and train schedule
Booking methods for the Tianshan Tourist Train
The Tianshan Tourist Train does not sell train tickets separately, but rather books them together with tourism products. Tourists can book tickets through the following methods:
Book through a travel agency: It is recommended to choose a formal and qualified travel agency for booking. Tourists can call the customer service hotline of the travel agency or log in to its official website for consultation and booking: 181-3962-2233.
Provide personal information: When booking, tourists need to provide their personal name and ID card number to determine the departure time and tourism product.
Pay the deposit and sign the contract: After successful booking, tourists need to pay the deposit for the train tickets and transfer the deposit to the designated account of the travel agency. At the same time, tourists also need to sign the unified electronic contract for national tourism service supervision to complete the registration process.
