The most famous highway in Xinjiang

The most famous highway in Xinjiang is the Duku Highway.

The Duku Highway starts from Dushanzi in the north and ends at Kuqa in the south, with a total length of 561 kilometers. It connects northern and southern Xinjiang and is only open for four or five months a year. Driving on a highway, you can experience different days ten miles away and experience four seasons in one day. The scenery along the way includes snow-capped mountains, lakes, canyons, grasslands, etc. It is the most famous highway in Xinjiang.

The gorgeous crossing of a vertical drop of two thousand meters is rare anywhere in the world. The richest landscapes are concentrated here. During the road trip, you can truly change the scene with every step. The short time and distance allow you to watch a wonderful montage-style movie.

The Duku Highway is a veritable landscape avenue, starting from the Dushanzi Grand Canyon, to the Nalati and Bayinbuluke grasslands along the way, and then to the mysterious Grand Canyon of the Kuqa Tianshan Mountains at the end. Along the Duku Highway, you can pass through the Yilianhabirga Mountains, Borokonu Mountains, Awulal Mountains, Nalati Mountains, Elbin Mountains, Halke Mountains, Yining and the Kuqa Basin.

The main attractions of Duku Highway

1. Nalati

Nalati Tourist Scenic Area is located in the hinterland of Tianshan Mountains and at the east end of Ili River Valley. Between 85°17-28 east longitude and 43°01-15 north latitude. The total planned area is 1,848 square kilometers. Here live the Kazakhs, the descendants of the Tianshan Mountains who are famous for their warm hospitality and good singing and dancing skills. They retain their simple and rich folk customs and rich and long-standing grassland culture. Nalati is a tourist and leisure resort integrating snow-capped mountains, glaciers, forests, valleys, meadows, rivers, waterfalls and grassland history and culture as well as Kazakh folk customs.

2. Bayinbuluk Grassland

Bayinbulak Grassland Scenic Area is located in the northwest of Hejing County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, in the hinterland of the southern foothills of the central Tianshan Mountains, with central geographical coordinates North latitude 42°47′53″, east longitude 84°09′50″. The total area is approximately 1259.47 square kilometers. The scenic spot is a natural landscape tourist area with the alpine meadow grassland and alpine swamp wetland ecosystem as the background in the large intermountain basin high in the Tianshan Mountains, and with the meanders and swamp wetlands in the upper reaches of the Kaidu River as the main body.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Duku Highway