Welcome to this exciting one-day Urumqi city exploration tour. Upon your arrival at Urumqi airport/train station, the English-speaking tour guide and driver will pick you up from the exit gate by holding a welcome board with your name.

Driving around 40 minutes, you will be arriving at Urumqi city and your exploration begins! The first site will be Xinjiang Regional Museum. As the only autonomous region class museum in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Regional Museum houses over 40,000 collections including all kinds of relics and specimens, exhibited in five separate halls. You can find many treasures ever glittering on the famous Silk Road. The No.1 star exhibition in the museum is the unprecedented ancient corpse with even tiny fingernails well preserved.

After lunch, continue your visit to Hongshan Park, which is one of the landmarks of Urumqi, sitting in the central area of this city. Red Hill, read Hongshan in Chinese, the main body of Hongshan Park is composed with purple sandy conglomerate which is in red color, hence the name. The park is popular for travelers in that it provides very good vision to behold the full view of Urumqi.

Afterwards, come to Xinjiang International Bazaar to further enjoy the local culture. It’s one of the bazaars with largest scale in the world with strong Islam flavor in its buildings. You should not miss this site during your tour to Urumqi, even if you are not going for shopping, you would favor the experience for the strong ethnic flavor here. Eyes are dazzled by an overwhelming of goods in the stalls while ears are excited by the hawking, bewildering you if you are travel through space and time to the ancient silk road to glimpse the prosperous trades between different nations.

Finishing the relaxing sightseeing, you will be dropped off at Urumqi airport / train station / downtown hotel.