Gongnaisi Scenic Area Road Guide Is the scenic area suitable for camping?

Gong Temple is one of Xinjiang’s scenic spots with distinct four seasons. This feature is also due to the rich tourist resources of the scenic spots. The trees, grasslands, and mountain flowers here all tell you the changes of the four seasons. I want to tell you emphatically that the peak tourist season here is July. Mountain flowers bloom on the grassland, the most unique and wonderful scenery.

Travel Guide

Gongnaisi means Green Valley. People call it the Emerald Valley of the clouds, the botanical garden, and the animal kingdom.

Tickets for Gong Temple Scenic Area:

Within 30 yuan, it is recommended to visit for 2 days (to experience the hot springs).

Accommodation:

The scenic spot also provides accommodation in three- and four-star hotels, or renting local rural B&Bs.

Is Gongsi Scenic Area suitable for camping?

Because the scenic area is an alpine grassland, camping is actually not recommended here.

Traffic:

You can choose to take a flight or the "Southern Xinjiang Star" train from Urumqi to Korla, then take a long-distance bus to Xinyuan County and get off at Gongnaisi Station.

Autonomous driving part:

Friends who miss the road trip can choose to take the Lianhuo Expressway to Dushanzi from June to September, and then take the Duku Highway (National Highway 217) south to 218 On the national highway, turn to Gongnaisi.

The temple has four distinct seasons, green in spring, flowers blooming in summer, red leaves in autumn, and white in winter. Every time you come, you will get a different scenery. For Li Jianmin, director of the Gongnaisi Scenic Area Management Committee who has worked here for many years, the beauty of Gongnaisi cannot be described in words.

In July, the beautiful Gongnais grassland is full of flowers, attracting many tourists. Photo by reporter Chen Feng

Gongsi: The Kingdom of Animals and Plants in the Emerald Cloud Valley

Gongsi Scenic Area is located in the northwest of Hejing County, Xinjiang, 255 kilometers away from Hejing County. The total area is 2,277 square kilometers, including 82,900 hectares of grassland and 79,000 hectares of forest. The scenic area borders Ili Nalati Scenic Area to the west and Nileke, Wusu and Shawan to the north.

The main landscapes of the palace and temple include Hunjiale Genguoleng, Alxian Hot Spring, Panchen Valley, Fairy Lake, Aikenda Ban, etc. There are more than 20 rare wild animals such as snow leopards, goats, brown bears, wolves, wild boars, red deer, argali, snow chickens, rabbits, and lynxes. Non-key wild animals include foxes, chukars, marmots, etc. There are more than 120 species of birds such as golden eagles, vultures, falcons, and swans; aquatic animals include otters and shad; insects include the newly discovered butterfly Apollo, and key protected wild plants such as snow lotus, ephedra, and comfrey.

Mountain Flower Viewing Place

The Panchen Valley in July this year is fascinating because the mountains here are full of flowers in bloom. "Every year from June to July, the wild mountain flowers in the Panchen Valley will be in full bloom. The mountain flowers blooming on the green grass all over the mountains and plains seem to be spreading out a huge colorful carpet." Li Jianmin said, the wild flowers blooming in the sea of ????flowers are named after Huangtianshan golden chrysanthemums. The most abundant, dotted with camel grass, baby's breath and other colorful mountain flowers, forming a large natural garden in Gongnaisi Scenic Area. At the same time, the mountain flowers echo the majestic Tianshan Mountains in the distance, forming a beautiful picture that makes tourists linger.

What’s even more amazing is that the sea of ??flowers in Panchen Valley never blooms at the foot of the mountain, but only at the top of the mountain. Visitors have to climb hundreds of stairs to see the beautiful scenery.

Hejing County invested more than 6 million yuan in the Dahuahai Scenic Area and successively built wooden plank roads, promenades, watchtowers and other facilities. Especially after Gongnaisi Grassland won the title of "China's Beautiful Garden" in 2014, it greatly increased the popularity and reputation of the scenic spot and promoted the development of local tourism. It’s especially convenient to go up the mountain now. We built a circular route, as well as pavilions, corridors, and shelter from the wind and rain.

Arxian Hot Spring, 20 to 30 kilometers away from Panchen Valley, is a place highly praised by local and surrounding residents. Arsian means "holy water". It is said that hundreds of years ago, herdsmen discovered that the hot springs here could relieve ailments, so soaking in the hot springs in Arxian became a habit of local herdsmen.

Mushrooms and wild vegetables: gifts from the forest and grassland to tourists

Tourists who come to Gongnaisi in summer are

from May to September, morels, straw mushrooms, Deer antlers and other wild fungi. It will be served to people's tables one after another.

Is picking mushrooms on the grassland magical?