14-Day Southern Xinjiang Panorama Grand Loop / 14天南疆全线全景大环游

Gather at Changi Airport for the flight to Beijing, connecting onward to Urumqi.

今日于樟宜机场集合，搭乘航班前往【北京】，经北京转机后飞往乌鲁木齐。

After the connection in Beijing, arrive in Urumqi, the first stop on the Xinjiang Silk Road. Board the coach and drive through the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, a mega-engineering marvel of the century: at 22.1 km it is the longest expressway tunnel in the world. Cross the Tianshan range with photo stops along the way for the breathtaking scenery, then continue to Korla (about 4.5 hours), have dinner and check in to the hotel.

经北京转机后，抵达新疆丝绸之路第一站【乌鲁木齐】。换乘车驶入世纪超级工程【天山胜利隧道】，全长22.1公里，是世界最长的高速公路隧道。一路穿越天山山脉，沿途停靠点下车拍摄震撼景观。抵达【库尔勒】（约4.5小时）后，享晚餐并入住酒店。

After breakfast, visit the Luntai Populus Euphratica Forest (ticket, shuttle and sightseeing train included), the world’s largest nature reserve of primeval desert poplar. Ride the sightseeing train through the golden autumn forest and admire the “heroes of the desert”, with thousands of poplars lining both sides of the road in a rare and spectacular sight. Ample time is set aside this afternoon for in-depth photography in the forest. In the evening, return to Luntai County (about 4.5 hours of driving today), have dinner and check in to the hotel.

早餐后，前往世界最大的原始胡杨林自然保护区【轮台胡杨林】（含门票、区间车及观光小火车）。乘坐观光小火车穿梭于金秋胡杨林间，欣赏沙漠英雄树，公路两侧成千上万株胡杨，景象壮观而罕见。当日下午安排充裕时间于胡杨林深度拍摄。傍晚返回【轮台县】（今日车程约4.5小时），晚餐后入住酒店。

After breakfast, drive past the Tarim River and the Desert Highway Monument onto the Tarim Desert Highway, the only road in the world that crosses a shifting desert, and traverse the Taklamakan Desert, the second largest desert on Earth. Along the way, enjoy the world’s largest primeval poplar forest and boundless, untouched desert scenery stretching to the horizon (about 9 hours of driving today). On arrival in Minfeng, check in to the hotel.

早餐后，乘车途经塔里木河、沙漠公路纪念碑，驶入世界唯一一条穿越流动沙漠的公路【塔里木沙漠公路】，并穿越世界第二大沙漠【塔克拉玛干大沙漠】。沿途可欣赏世界上规模最大的原始胡杨林，以及无边无际的沙漠原生态风光（今日车程约9小时）。抵达【民丰】后，入住酒店。

After breakfast, cross the Hotan countryside to the Damagou Small Buddha Temple Museum, the smallest Buddhist temple in the world at just four square metres. Continue to Hotan, the “Silk Capital” and home of jade on the southern Silk Road (about 5 hours). Drive along the Yurungkash River, the only river in China that has yielded seed jade since ancient times, where locals can be seen panning for jade in the riverbed, then visit the Walnut King tree and Hotan Tuanjie People’s Square with its statues of Chairman Mao and Uncle Kurban. In the evening, photograph the night scene of Hotan Old City (Tuancheng), whose traditional “Aiyiwang” dwellings are listed as national intangible cultural heritage and form one of the most distinctive old quarters in southern Xinjiang, and enjoy dinner at a speciality restaurant inside the old city.

早餐后，穿越和田乡村抵达【达玛沟小佛寺博物馆】，是世界上最小的佛寺，面积仅四平方米。之后前往丝路南道上的“绢都”、玉石之乡【和田】（约5小时）。续程车览中国唯一自古出产籽玉的河流【玉龙喀什河】，可见当地百姓于河床中淘玉；参观核桃王及和田团结人民广场，瞻仰伟人与库尔班大叔雕像。随后前往【和田老城（团城）】拍摄夜景，这里的“阿依旺”民居已列入国家级非物质文化遗产，是南疆最具民族特色的老街区之一；接着在老城里的特色餐厅享用晚餐。

After breakfast, travel along National Highway 315 to Shache (Yarkand, about 5 hours), one of the three great ancient counties of Xinjiang and the hometown of the Uyghur master of the “Twelve Muqam”. Visit the Shache Royal Palace Film Base, whose reconstructed exhibition area of ancient Yarkand architecture shows the classical building style of southern Xinjiang. Then continue to Kashgar (about 3 hours) with the boundless Gobi scenery along the way.

早餐后，沿315国道前往新疆三大古县之一【莎车】（约5小时），这里是维吾尔“十二木卡姆”大师的故乡，参观【莎车王宫影视基地】，园内的莎车古代建筑重建展示区充分体现了南疆地区古典建筑特色风格。之后前往【喀什】（约3小时），沿途欣赏无边无际的戈壁滩风光。

After breakfast, drive along the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway up to the Pamir Plateau, the “Roof of the World” and the ancestor of all mountains (about 6 hours), passing the Gaizi Canyon, the Gaizi post station, the Flowing Sand River, Red Mountain and the Bulunkou White Lake. Wind up the plateau mountain road to Karakul Lake, whose name means “Black Sea”, one of the rare high-altitude glacial lakes of the world, where the three giants of the Kunlun stand close by: Kongur (7,719 m), Kongur Tiube (7,530 m) and Muztagh Ata (7,546 m). Continue to Tashkurgan, home of the Tajik people, for dinner and the hotel.

早餐后，沿中巴友谊公路驶向“世界屋脊、万山之祖”帕米尔高原（约6小时），沿途经过盖孜峡谷、盖孜驿站、流沙河、红山、布伦口白湖等著名景观。之后驶入曲曲弯弯的高原盘山路，抵达世界著名的高原冰川湖【卡拉库里湖】，意为“黑海”，是一座世界上少有的高原湖泊。您可近距离目睹昆仑三雄：公格尔峰（7719米）、公格尔九别峰（7530米）、慕士塔格峰（7546米）。随后赴塔吉克族的家乡【塔什库尔干】，享晚餐后入住酒店休息。

After breakfast, visit the Stone Fortress, the meeting point of the middle and southern routes of the ancient Silk Road, built on a high mound in a commanding and precipitous position. Continue to the Golden Grassland Wetland Park, where the Tashkurgan River feeds lush pastures grazed by cattle and sheep, set against distant snow peaks, white clouds and blue sky. Then take the Panlong Ancient Road (the Small Panlong), 30 km long with 639 bends and hailed as the most winding road in China, passing the Xiabandi Reservoir (Bandier Lake), built for hydro-power and ringed by mountains, its deep azure water a serene sight. Return to Kashgar (about 8 hours of driving today).

早餐后，参观【石头城堡】，是古代丝绸之路中道和南道的交汇点，建于高丘之上，形势极为险峻。续程游览【金草滩湿地公园】，塔什库尔干河流经此处，水草丰美，牛羊遍地，与远处的雪山、白云、蓝天交融在一起十分漂亮。之后前往【盘龙古道】（小盘龙），全长三十公里，竟有六百三十九道弯，堪称中国第一弯的公路；途经【下板地水库】（班迪尔湖），这是一座因发电而兴建的水库，湖泊群山环绕，幽深蔚蓝，景色优美。之后返回【喀什】（今日车程约8小时）。

A full day in Kashgar. After breakfast, visit the Xiangfei Tomb, then stroll the Artisan Street, about one kilometre of hundreds of handicraft workshops and stalls. Visit the Id Kah Mosque, the largest mosque in China and one of the three great mosques of Central Asia, blending Arabian and Uyghur architecture; tens of thousands gather here for the prayers of Eid, earning it the name “Mecca of the East”. Then explore the Kashgar Old City, China’s only labyrinthine old town with a distinctly Islamic character, where residents still live in earthen houses and keep thousand-year-old customs, as if stepping back into medieval times.

今日安排喀什一日游：早餐后，参观【香妃墓】，漫步喀什的【手工作坊艺人街】，全长约一千米，聚集数百家手工作坊与摊点。随后参观中亚三大、中国最大的清真寺【艾提尕尔大清真寺】，融阿拉伯建筑特色与维吾尔建筑风格于一体，每逢开斋节与古尔邦节在此举行万人大会礼，故有“东方麦加”之称。随后游览中国唯一以伊斯兰文化为特色的迷宫式老城区【喀什噶尔老城】，这里的居民仍恪守世代而居的土屋与千年传统习俗，仿佛让人步入中世纪的时空。

After breakfast, drive along National Highway 314 (about 7 hours), admiring the colourful mountains of the southern Tianshan on the way. Visit the Bachu Red Sea Scenic Area (shuttle included), a national 4A attraction made up of four zones: the Kashgar River wetland, the Red Sea water park, the Silk Road post station and the Poplar Sea, the largest contiguous natural poplar forest in the world, whose towering, unyielding trees show the grandeur of nature.

早餐后，行驶在314国道（约7小时），沿途欣赏南天山七彩山风光。之后游览国家4A级景区【巴楚红海景区】（含区间车），由喀什河湿地、红海水上乐园、丝绸古道驿站及胡杨海四大景观区组成。这里是世界连片面积最大的天然胡杨林，磅礴挺拔的身姿展现着不屈的生命力，鬼斧神工般的形态令人感叹大自然的壮美。

After breakfast, visit the Wensu Grand Canyon (shuttle included), the most beautiful Danxia landform in western China and the country’s largest rock-salt karst landscape, carved over hundreds of millions of years by floods, rain and fierce winds into a rare spectacle of ancient rock salt. Then continue to Shaya County (about 5 hours), have dinner and check in to the hotel.

早餐后，前往【温宿大峡谷】（含区间车），这是中国西部最美丹霞地质奇景、也是最大岩盐喀斯特地质胜景。该峡谷历经亿万年的洪水、雨水冲刷与劲风吹蚀而成，拥有中国罕见的远古岩盐地质绝景。随后前往【沙雅县】（约5小时），晚餐后入住酒店。

After breakfast, visit the Shaya World Populus Forest, once awarded the title of “largest area of primeval poplar forest” by the Shanghai Great World Guinness. Then drive to Kuqa (about 5 hours), seat of the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Qiuci, and visit Subashi Ancient City, also known as the Zhaohuli Grand Temple.

早餐后，前往【沙雅世界胡杨林】，曾被上海大世界吉尼斯授予“最大面积原生态胡杨林”称号，堪称世界之最。随后抵达龟兹佛国所在地【库车】（约5小时），参观【苏巴什故城】，又名“昭怙悝大寺”。

After breakfast, visit the Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon, chosen by Chinese National Geography as one of the ten most beautiful canyons in China for its wonder, peril, grandeur, antiquity and serenity: crimson cliffs soar into the sky like clusters of flame in the sunlight, and from the canyon floor the sheer peaks seem ready to close in overhead. Continue to the Kizil Beacon Tower, the oldest and best-preserved beacon site on the Silk Road, enjoying the Kuqa River valley on the way, with its knife-cut mountains and red hills, and a photo stop at the Duku Highway terminus monument. After dinner in Kuqa, transfer to Kuqa Airport for the flight back to Urumqi.

早餐后，前往【天山神秘大峡谷】，被《中国国家地理》评选为中国最美十大峡谷之一，兼具奇、险、雄、古、幽于一体。赤红山体直插云天，阳光下宛如簇簇燃烧的火焰，站在谷底仰望，陡峭峰峦仿佛随时压顶，令人感到窒息、眩晕。随后参观【克孜尔烽火台】，这是丝绸之路上保存最完好的最古老烽燧遗址。沿途欣赏库车河谷风光，如刀削山、红山林等，并打卡独库公路终点纪念碑。之后于库车享晚餐，接着前往库车机场乘航班返回【乌鲁木齐】。

After breakfast, free time. At the appointed time, transfer to the airport for the flight to Beijing, connecting onward to Singapore.

早餐后，自由活动。之后按指定时间前往机场，搭乘航班前往【北京】，经北京转机后飞往新加坡。