Xinjiang Cities

Changji travel guide: Urumqi’s quiet neighbour holds Heavenly Lake, Jiangbulake grassland and the Duku Highway’s northern start. Plan your visit today.

Shihezi travel guide: how to visit Xinjiang’s planned ‘garden city’ — the Corps Museum, Zhou Enlai monument, cotton fields, transport, and where to eat.

Complete Hotan travel guide to the Jade City of the Silk Road: how to get there, best months, jade and Atlas silk markets, where to eat, and a 3-day plan.

Plan your Hami travel guide trip with our firsthand notes – how to get there, best time, where to stay, and what to eat. Practical, updated advice.

Karamay travel guide by a writer who drove its oil roads and walked the Urho Ghost City. Getting there, best time, where to stay, eat, and the cliffs.

Plan your Aksu travel guide trip with our firsthand notes – how to get there, best time, where to stay, and what to eat. Practical, updated advice.

Plan your Korla travel guide trip with our firsthand notes – how to get there, best time, where to stay, and what to eat. Practical, updated advice.

Plan your Qapqal Xinjiang trip with our firsthand notes – how to get there, best time, where to stay, and what to eat. Practical, updated advice.

Zhaosu is Xinjiang’s heavenly horse county in the upper Ili Valley: festival timing, rapeseed season, riding tips, roads from Yining and what to skip.

Plan your Tekes Bagua City trip: how to read the I Ching street grid, why the historic core has no traffic lights, best time to visit, where to stay, and how to use it as a Kalajun base.