Day 1 Arrive in Dunhuang (Meals: -/-/-)

You will be met at the airport in Dunhuang by our Discoverchinatours guide, and driven to your hotel. The rest of the time is free for you to explore the city.

Day 2 Dunhuang (Meals: B/L/-)

Sightseeing: Mogao Grottoes / Dunhuang Museum / Roaring Mingsha Hill / Crescent Lake

Take a full day tour to visit Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang Museum, Crescent Moon Lake and Roaring Mingsha Hill. Mogao Grottoes: In China, it is one of the three famous rock grottoes and regarded as a storehouse of the Buddhist art in the world. Mingsha Hill: Mingsha Hill offers the best picture-book desert scenery that travelers are likely to see along the entire length of the Silk Road. Crescent Lake: Yueya Spring is near the northern foot of Mingsha Hill in the southern suburbs of Dunhuang City. It is shaped like a crescent moon, and its clear water is surrounded by grass.
Day 3 Dunhuang / Urumqi via air (Meals: B/L/-)

Sightseeing: The Hecang Fortress / Yumenguan / Yangguan

You will start the day with a visit to Yumenguan, the Great Wall in Han Dynasty, The Hecang Fortress and Yang Gate. As sunset approaches, you will be transferred to the airport to Urumqi. Upon your arrival in Urumqi, be met and transferred to your hotel. The Hecang Fortress: hidden in the Gobi Desert twenty kilometers from Yumenguan Pass at the west, was originally the important quartermaster depot. Yumenguan: Yumenguan lies about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Dunhuang. Its name came from the fact that jade from Hotan in Xinjiang entered Central China through this pass. Yangguan: Yangguan lies 75 kilometers (47 miles) southwest of Dunhuang but consists of only the ruins of a high beacon tower. It s named Yangguan because it borders the southern part of Yumenguan Pass.
Day 4 Urumqi (Meals: B/L/-)

Sightseeing: Heaven Lake and Heavenly Mountain

After an early breakfast, we set off for Heavenly Lake and Heavenly Mountain. Heaven Lake: Situated in the Tianshan range, 115 km northeast of Urumqi, at an elevation of 1980m, Tianchi Lake is one of the main tourist attractions in China.
Day 5 Urumqi/Kashgar (Meals: B/L/-)

Sightseeing: Fragrant Concubine Tomb / Id Kah Mosque

Transferred to Kashgar by morning air, and then visit Fragrant Concubine Tomb and Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar Fragrant Concubine Tomb (Xiangfei Tomb): It is a monumental hall, finished in 1640, with a large dome of dazzling glazed green tiles. Id Kah Mosque: This mosque, the largest one in China, can accommodate 20,000 people, and almost certainly the most active, in the country. You can even hear the call to prayer booming around the city center-a rare sound in China.
Day 6 Kashgar Urumqi (Meals: B/L/-)

Sightseeing: Sunday Bazaar

You will spend the day in visiting Sunday Bazaar. Then take evening flight back to Urumqi. Upon your arrival in Urumqi, be met and transferred to your hotel. Sunday Bazaar: Once a week Kashgar s population serlls by 50,000 as perple from across the area stream into the Sunday morning bazaar. On Sundays, thousands of farmers driving carts flock from the countryside to the great Kashgar bazaar around Aizilaiti Lu, east of the Tuman River.
Day 7 Urumqi to Next City (Meals: B/-/-)

Feel free until be met and transferred to the airport for the flight to next destination.

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