Xinjiang Ili Grassland Travel Guide.
How to Choose the Right Season and Time, Avoiding 90% of Tourist Mistakes❗
The Ili grassland seems like a masterpiece of nature. Each season has its unique beauty, but the key is not in the routes and tickets, but in how to grasp the best season and time.
🌸Season Selection
The most beautiful moment of the Ili grassland is from mid-May to mid-June. At this time, the grass is lush, wildflowers are in full bloom, snow-capped mountains stand tall, and the scenery is picturesque. Moreover, there are relatively fewer tourists, and accommodation prices are quite friendly, with daily rates around 100 yuan easily found.
However, as time enters mid-June to July and August, the snow line on the snow-capped mountains rises, and the number of tourists increases significantly, causing prices to rise accordingly. Especially during the summer vacation, many people choose to travel at this time, but the scenery is not as stunning as before.
Late May to early June: At this time, the Duku and Yizhao roads are not yet open, and some grasslands are not fully open either. It is recommended to visit Chaxi, Kurdening, Nalati, and other grasslands.
Mid-June to early July: You can choose from eight major grasslands, including Chaxi, Kurdening, Nalati, Kalajun, Qiongkushitai, Aktaas, Xiata, and Tangbula.
Mid-July to mid-August: Although most of the snow-capped mountains in Ili's grasslands have disappeared and the grass is gradually turning yellow, the Duku and Yizhao roads are still passable. It is recommended to visit Xiata, Kalajun, Tangbula, and Nalati grasslands.
⏰Time Points
For friends visiting in July, do not have too high expectations for the beautiful photos and videos online. But how can you enjoy the scenery as much as possible in the non-best season? The answer is to choose the right time!
Excluding the impact of weather factors, the best times to enter the grassland are from 7 to 10 in the morning and from 7 to 10 in the evening. During these two periods, the angle of the sunlight is suitable, and the light is soft, which can outline the three-dimensional and layered sense of the grassland, presenting the most beautiful scenery. Be sure to avoid the noon period, as direct sunlight will cause the scenery to lose its light and shadow undulations and layering.
Each piece of Ili's grassland has its unique charm. But if you can enter the grassland at the right time, even an 80-point grassland will be more charming than a 90 or even 100-point grassland under direct sunlight. So, friends planning to travel to Xinjiang Ili, please remember: the choice of time is more important than the choice of attractions!
The Yizhao Highway, known as the Xiaoduku Highway, is really beautiful, in it, magnificent. Transportation: To Zhaosu County, you can take the Yizhao Highway, cross Baishi Peak, turn over the mountains and cross the mountains and countless mountain roads, and you will arrive in Zhaosu County. The Yizhao Highway is opened around June every year. It opens at 9 o'clock in the morning. The mountain road is very dangerous and the scenery is too beautiful. Recommended reason: the mountain road is steep and steep, the distant mountain is quiet, surrounded by mountains and pine forests, and occasionally encounters a few famous singers singing here to sing. I didn't stop to enjoy it. Fortunately, there was a photographer who could take pictures and remember the photos taken.
Yizhao Highway is really beautiful! Although it is not as good as Duku, it is also well-deserved to see the four seasons in a day! Yining is very good for eating and living, the hotel is good, in the city center, the room size and facilities are very good. There is a large, small and cost-effective restaurant next to the hotel. We came to eat 5 times for six nights in Yining. Pearl balls are stuffed with lamb and taste OK.
The Yizhao Highway is only open for four months a year, which is absolutely beautiful. This is the Yizhao Highway at 21:30 in the evening, not the attractions are better than the attractions. The whole journey is 180 kilometers, which is a section of the ancient Silk Road "bow moon road", more than 3,000 meters above sea level, bypassing some 360-degree turns, very sad but beautiful. Only Yizhao Highway can be comparable to Duku Highway. Every eye is a wallpaper with filters. I have never seen such a green meadow. It is connected to the white stone peak in the distance. It is him who is steep and steep. It is him who is cold and wild. The light and shadow are unpredictable. Communication between Tianshan North and South, The scenery is beautiful, as if walking through the clouds.
Yizhao Highway, comparable to Xiaoduku. I tried to enter the mountain this year, but unfortunately the road landslide, the road has not yet opened.
Baishi Peak is the highest peak on the ridge of Wusun Mountain, the most dangerous and beautiful is one of the signs of Yizhao Highway
The Yizhao Highway is one of the sections of the ancient Silk Road "bow moon road", with provincial road number 237. The Yizhao Highway is 200 kilometers long, from Ili Yining to the north and Zhaosu County to the south.
The Yizhao Highway in Xinjiang is indeed a place worth visiting!