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Pg19 23 FITNXK 13D North Xinjiang.Ai 哈萨克斯坦 Flight path HIGHLIGHTS KAZAKHSTAN 贾登域 Traverse by coach JIADENGYU 1 Featured destinations 阿拉木图 布尔津 NORTH XINJIANG BURQIN 1 2 Black Oil Mountain ALMATY 2 克拉玛依 1 Overnight stays KARAMAY Hemu Village 1 春贾 Kanas Scenic Area 1 乌鲁木齐 SHONZHY 1 Sample Tuva Homemade Milk Wine KHORGAS KUYTUN 1 URUMQI 奎屯 1 Colorful Beach 霍尔果斯口岸 Urho Ghost City Included Mini Train Ride 1 Sayram Lake GHULJA Xinjiang Ancient Ecological Park 伊宁 Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar SEASONAL BONUS: 北京 Lavender Manor 北疆 BEIJING (Specially arrange between XINJIANG June to September depending Lavender season) 中国 KAZAKHSTAN CHINA Park of Panfilov Guardsmen Zenkov Cathedral Independence Monument Shymbulak Ski Resort National Art Museum Falcon Show DAY 1 DAY 4 MEGA Mall ✈ Hard Rock Café SINGAPORE BEIJING JIADENGYU BURQIN Kazakhstan Cuisine with (Meal On Board) (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) Cultural Dance Performance Assemble at Singapore Changi Airport for • Kanas Scenic Area (including shuttle bus Issyk-Kul Lake your flight to Urumqi (transit at Beijing). 【Fish Watching Pavilion + Crouching Dragon Ile-Alatau National Park Bay + Shenxian Bay + Moon Bay】- Kok Tobe Hill Beautiful and mysterious (meaning of Zharkent Mosque DAY 2 the Mongolian "Kanas"), you can see the BEIJING ✈ URUMQI clear and tranquil lake, the lake changes KARAMAY its colour according to the season and DELICACIES (Lunch/Dinner) weather. The virgin forests of spruce, fir • Black Oil Mountain Park - Located In the and Siberian larch are mixed around the North Xinjiang : northeast of Karamay, 2 kilometres from lake. Big Plate Chicken the city center, it is the place where the • Tuva Household Visit - The Tuva is an Cold-water Fish Cuisine oilfields are out of the oil field. Because ancient nation, living on nomadic and Pork Trotters the crude oil overflows into a group of hunting. For nearly four hundred years, Roasted Whole Lamb asphalt hills for a long time, the largest Xi Yu Farewell Dinner the Tuvans have settled on the shores of one is 13 meters high and the area is 0.2 Kanas Lake. They are brave and powerful, Kazakhstan : square kilometers. The oil quality is good at riding, skiing, singing and Rice Pilaf Precious low-condensation oil. "Karamay" dancing, and maintain a relatively Horsemeat in Uighur is meant "Black Oil", so this primitive lifestyle. The quaint little village Uzbekistan Cuisine natural petroleum asphalt hill is named Kazakhstan Cuisine scenery is as mysterious as Kanas Lake. Black Oil Mountain, and it has been here (Taste the Tuva homemade milk wine for hundreds of millions of years. and enjoy the traditional instrumental ACCOMMODATIONS singing performance). AS STATED OR SIMILAR - LOCAL ★★★ DAY 3 KARAMAY JIADENGYU Karamay Night - Bardon Yin Du Hotel DAY 5 or similar ★ (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) Jiadengyu Night - Hongfu Lake Kanas • Hemu Scenic Area (including shuttle BURQIN KUYTUN (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) Resort Aletai or similar ★ bus) - Hemu Village is a village under the Burqin Night - Mystic Lake Grand jurisdiction of Burqin County, Xinjiang • The Colorful Beach - A national 4A-level scenic spot, the Colorful Beach is in the Hotel or similar ★ Uygur Autonomous Region. Located on town about 24 kilometers northwest of Kuytun Free Upgrade Night - the shore of Kanas Lake in Burqin ★ Burqin, Xinjiang, Irtysh River whose waters Kuitun Hotel Local County, Xinjiang, it is the concentrated reach the Arctic Ocean. The Colorful Khorgas Night - Vienna Hotels living place of the Tuva people. It is the Beach has a special landform and a ★ or similar farthest and largest village among the long-term dry zone, which is a typical Ghulja Night - Ruiyang Crown Hotel ★ only remaining Tuva villages (Hemu colored Hill. Urumqi Free Upgrade Night - Village, Kanas Village and Baihaba If you are unable to visit due to special ★ Haitong Hotel Local Village).【Guests may experience horse circumstances, RMB50 will be refunded. Almaty Kazakhstan Nights - riding back and forth to the observation • Urho Ghost City (including mini trains) - Ramada by Wyndham Almaty or similar ★ deck at own expense】 The weathered rocks are in various forms Shonzhy Kazakhstan Nights - Zheticy Resort Spa ★ 13D10N NORTH XINJIANG + KAZAKHSTAN (Experience lunch in a traditional felt room) • Ile-Alatau National Park - Boasting an impressive area of about 200,000 hectares, the park is also home to more than 500 species of trees, more than 400 plantations and approximately 300 species of fauna, including the snow leopard, golden eagle, Tien-Shan brown bear and many more animal species. • Kok-Tobe Hill - Located in southeast Almaty, Kok-Tobe Hill, also known as Green Mountain, has a TV tower with a platform ofering panoramic views of the city. Cable car service to and fro the city is available. Lavender Manor DAY 10 SHONZHYZHARKENT and shapes resembling a "window to the experienced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, KHORGAS PORTGHULJA world", it is a unique wind-eroded which caused many buildings to (NORTH XINJIANG) geological area commonly referred to as collapse. The cathedral was left intact (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) "wind city" because of the frequent and is one of the few surviving buildings • Zharkent Mosque - It is a magnificent howling winds. Due to its eeriness, it is also of the Almaty Tsarist period. building of the 19th century. The commonly referred to as "Ghost City". • Independence Monument - Located in mosque was designed and built by the Republic Square right in the city Chinese architect Hong Feng with centre of Almaty, the impressive Chinese architectural style. The mosque DAY 6 monument stands at 28 metres tall, with also opened an Islamic school to provide KUYTUNKHORGAS a 6-metre-high golden warrior ruling children with scripture education. The (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) from the top perched atop a winged mosque is decorated with national • Sayram Lake (including shuttle bus) - At snow leopard, which symbolizes the ornaments and Arabic scripts. the gorgeous Sayram Lake, it is no easy state regime on Kazakh land. • Lavender Manor【Specially arranged feat to diferentiate where the lake ends • Shymbulak Ski Resort - Take the cable between June to September depending and the sky begins, it's an endless stretch car 3,200 metres up to the most famous Lavender season】. of blue . scenic spot in Kazakhstan for a panoramic view of Almaty. The cable car DAY 11 is divided into three sections and has a DAY 7 GHULJA ✈ URUMQI KHORGASKAZAKHSTAN total length of 4,000 metres. The ski resort is the highest in Kazakhstan as well (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) ALMATY as in Central Asia. • Take a domestic flight from Ghulja to (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) • National Art Museum. Urumqi (1 hour and 20 minutes). • Charyn Canyon National Park Kazakh • Falcon Show - Enjoy a spectacular show • Xinjiang Ancient Ecological Park - was has the world's most perfect natural and by specially trained hawks. Hunting with founded in 2005. The park gathers rare cultural landscapes. The most famous hawks by the Kazakhstan people is the and precious natural relics and cultural tourist attraction in southern Kazakhstan most unique features of the Kazakh way essence of the ancient Silk Road: is the Charyn Canyon National Park of life. Akhal-Teke Horse Base, Ancient Petrified about 210 kilometres east of Almaty. It is • MEGA Mall - is the largest trade center in Woods, Millenium Populus Euphratica one of the famous tourist attractions in Almaty. It is a shopping mall where locals Forest, Black Iron Meteoric, Folk Custom Kazakhstan. The terrain is like the Grand and foreigners often shop. Garden, Yema Art Gallery, which integrate Canyon in the United States. The highest • Hard Rock Café - Get their classic as a unique and stunning picture scroll. peak of the canyon is 300 metres. This is souvenirs at your own expense. a unique talent of nature. • Kazakhstan Cuisine with cultural dance DAY 12 performance. URUMQI ✈ BEIJING DAY 8 (Breakfast/*Lunch will be own expenses) • Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar. ALMATY DAY 9 • Free time until you need to transfer to the (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) ALMATYSHONZHY airport for your flight back to Singapore via • Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen - Built in (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner) Beijing. memory of the fallen heroes in the Great • Issyk-Kul Lake - The second largest Patriotic War. alpine lake in the world, Issyk-Kul Lake is DAY 13 • Zenkov Cathedral - This Russian a fascinating green-blue stretch that Orthodox cathedral is the only wooden extends across the high Tien Shan range SINGAPORE cathedral in the world built without using and is surrounded by stunning alpine • Arrive in Singapore. any nails. On 3 January 1911, Almaty nature. .
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