Turpan tourist attractions

1. Turpan Grape Valley, the famous "cool world" of Huozhou - Grape Valley is located in the Flame Mountain Canyon 13 kilometers northeast of Turpan City. The ditch is a not too deep cutting ditch, 8 kilometers long from north to south, about 0.5 kilometers wide from east to west, and the widest square can reach 2 kilometers. A small stream runs through it, and gurgling spring water sometimes seeps into the gap along the side of the ditch. out. The green shade in the ditch blocks out the sun, and the ditch is full of layers of grape trellises, dotted with flowers, fruit trees, cottages and farmhouses, and many hollow earth "drying rooms" built specifically for drying raisins on the high hillsides. Grape Valley currently has 400 hectares of grape fields, mainly planting dozens of famous grape varieties such as seedless white grapes, Ma0, Kashihar, black grapes, Bijiagan, Haloxylon ammodendron grapes, and purple grapes. The annual output is 6 million kilograms of fresh grapes and more than 300 tons of raisins. The seedless white raisins here are bright green, sweet and sour and delicious. They enjoy a high reputation in the international market and are called "Chinese Green Pearls". The fruit wine factory located between Grape Valley and Turpan City has introduced domestic first-class production lines for wine brewing, storage and filling, as well as grape, honeydew melon, mulberry canned and concentrated juice flexible packaging production lines, and a production line that can accommodate thousands of tons. Large cold storage for melons and fruits. The Turpan whole juice wine produced here sells well all over the country. Deep in the Grape Valley, a Grape Amusement Park covering an area of ??several thousand square meters has been built specifically for Chinese and foreign tourists. It is shaded, covered with greenery, with springs and streams, winding paths, sweet grapes, and intoxicating scenery. Singing and dancing are refreshing.

2. Jiaohe Ancient City. Jiaohe Ancient City is the only city with earthen architecture in the world and the most complete urban relic preserved in my country for more than two thousand years. The Anxi Protectorate, the highest military and political institution in the western region of the Tang Dynasty, was the first to Located here. In 1961, it was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit. Yargole Kuola, called Yargole Kuola in Uyghur, is located on a 30-meter-high cliff platform in Yarnaiz Valley, 10 kilometers west of Turpan City. The ancient city is shaped like a willow leaf-shaped peninsula, with a long and narrow terrain, running from northwest to southeast, with a length of 1,760 meters and a maximum width of 300 meters. It has a total area of ??430,000 square meters, of which 360,000 square meters of construction area are concentrated in the southeast of the old city. It occupies two-thirds of the total area of ??the ancient city. Due to river erosion. There are cliffs tens of meters high around the platform. The terrain is steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. Because the two rivers that flow around the city meet in the south of the city, it is named Jiaohe. The ancient city was built by the Cheshi people, and the construction date was earlier than that of the Qin and Han Dynasties, about 2000 to 2300 years ago. The ancient city consists of temples, official offices, towers, residences and workshops, with a total area of ??250,000 square meters. Jiaohe Ancient City is almost entirely excavated from natural soil, and the tallest building is as high as three stories. After 2,300 years of ups and downs, it still stands tall. It is the oldest, largest and best-protected earth-building city in the world. In 1961, Jiaohe Ancient City was listed among the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

3. Scenery of the Flame Mountain. The Flame Mountain is located 10 kilometers northeast of Turpan City. It runs east-west and is 98 kilometers long and 9 kilometers wide. The main peak is 831.7 meters above sea level. In midsummer, when the mountain is illuminated by the scorching sun, hot air currents rise, and the ocher-red mountain looks like it is burning. The mountain is not high, but it is famous if there are immortals. The Flame Mountain is such a mountain. The Flame Mountains are located on the northern edge of the Turpan Basin. It is called Chishi Mountain in ancient books and Kiziltag in Uyghur, which means Red Mountain. The Flame Mountains run east-west. It starts from the Liusha River in Shanshan County in the east and ends in Taoergou in Turpan in the west. It is 100 kilometers long and 10 kilometers at its widest point. The Flame Mountain is full of bald mountains and not even a blade of grass can grow on it. Every midsummer, the red sun is in the sky, the earth is steaming, and the flaming clouds are swirling around. It looks like a flying fire dragon, which is very spectacular. According to legend, in "Journey to the West", Tang Sanzang was blocked from going to the Flame Mountain to obtain scriptures, and the story of Sun Wukong borrowing a banana fan three times took place here. The Flame Mountain is located in the middle of the Turpan Basin and is mainly composed of Mesozoic Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary red sandy conglomerate and mudstone. , the mountain is majestic, deep and winding, covered with gullies. There is no grass growing on the mountain and the bedrock is exposed. In the hot summer, under the strong sunlight, the red mountains are billowing with heat waves and red smoke clouds are steaming, just like balls of burning flames.