Route: Two Day Tour of Urumqi - Heavenly Mountain Safari Park - Grapery - Urumqi -Grand Shaanxi Mosque -Tartar Mosque - Xinjiang Min Jie Folk Custom Museum - Xinjiang International Bazaar

Grapery in Urumqi

On the first day, you will visit the Heavenly Mountain Safari Park and Grapery. Take the Bus 528A from the gate of the former South Park on South Xinhua Road, you will reach the Heavenly Mountain Safari Park. Situated 25 kilometers away from Urumqi on the east, it covers 75 square kilometers and feeds 1147 animals of 69 kinds. Many national-level rare species live happily here. To create better living environment as well as to cater for the tourists and animal-lovers, theme buildings with popular facilities are available everywhere in the park. The entrance fee is 30.00 RMB per person and the tourist bus in the park is 30.00 RMB per person. After the visit, return to the downtown area and have lunch. Take taxi to the Grapery (Address: No. 221, Yingbin Road, Urumqi, Xinjiang) in the north of the city. Been called for over 30 years, the Grapery has been renamed as the north area of the Xinjiang Arboretum in 2006. For people who have to skip the Grape Valley in Turpan because of limited duration, the Grapery in Urumqi can be a perfect substitute. If you come in August, the 24 kinds sweet grapes covering 0.27 square kilometers will please everyone from in and abroad. Stay overnight. For your reference: Haide Hotel (Address: No.1, Dingfeng Road, Urumqi, Xinjiang; Telephone: 86-991-2322828); Yindu Hotel (Address: No. 36, Xibei Road, Urumqi, Xinjiang; Telephone: 86-991-4536688).

Grand Shaanxi Mosque, Urumqi

On the Second day, you will spend almost the whole day in the Uygur Residents Concentrated Zone. The first spot is the largest Mosque in Urumqi- the Grand Shaanxi Mosque (Address: Yonghe Lane, South Peace Road, Urumqi, Xinjiang; Telephone: 86-991-2810028). Due to the location, it is also called the Grand East Mosque. Differ from other mosques in Xinjiang, the main construction style is the Zhongyuan Han Style prevailed in Han and Qing Dynasty in the main land China. Surrounding the Mosque, houses are almost all belong to the Islamic people. So it is the place second to none to feel the local life of the Islamic people. The second spot is the nearby Tartar Mosque (Address: South Section of the Jiefanf Road, Urumqi, Xinjiang). The famous mosque got the name because people of the Tartar ethnic minority donated the money for the construction in 1897. Usually, female tourists are not allowed to enter Mosques, but this one is an open one. With pre-notice to the Mosque, female visitors are allowed to enter in it. Walk to Shanxi Lane where the Xinjiang Min Jie Folk Custom Museum (Address: Shanxi Lane, Longquan Street, Urumqi, Xiniang; Telephone: 86-991-2828686) is located. Covering 24000 square meters, the four connecting buildings of 5-floor in each building are in typical Islamic construction style. The building will show visitors a wspatio-temporal Xinjiang Province from the four parts: Snacks Mall, Exotic Mallt, Eurasian Merchandise Mall and Jewellery Mall.

Xinjiang International Bazaar

Urumqi has another name of delicacies center in western region, here you can taste various Muslim cuisines and mouthwatering traditional ethnic food of Xinjiang. You may either have lunch on the Snacks Mall or outside the Museum. You can not miss the popular foods like Roast Uygur cake, Thin-skin steamed stuffed bun, Roast sheep, Kebab, Rice and flour-filled sheep intestine and lung and Xinjiang Rice. Walking southward for 10 minutes, you will get to the Erdaoqiao Marketplace. The famous Xinjiang International Bazaar is across the road. In the Bazaar building and the Erdaoqiao Market Building, stores and booths sells kinds of ethnic minority goods and handicrafts from China and Middle-Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Mongolia. Every day, thousands of tourists and shoppers gathered here for the ethnic products attract. You will feel it interesting to find people from all walks of life bargaining here with dialects, mandarin, English Russian and the languages of the neighboring countries. Xinjiang specialties like Hotan Jade, carpets, silk, dried fruits, Yengisar dagger, essential oil, Uygur embroidered hats, musical instruments are all best souvenir or gifts for the families or friends. In the evening, if you are not too tired, enjoy either the breath-taking shows. For your information: The circus performance and the world famous ropedancer at the Adili Circus Flied (21:30-23:30 every day) and buffet dinner with Ethnic Song and Dance show at Bazaar Grand Banqueting Hall (Address: No. 8, South Jiefang Road, Uruqmi, Xinjiang).