In the morning, you will visit the Chaiwobao Salt Lake and the ancient Ulab City. They are all located on the east of Urumqi. To enjoy fully flexibility, travelers are suggested to charter a car for the tour. Here we would like to offer some vehicle rental companies information in Urumqi for your reference: Guoyu Rental(Add: No. 32, Beijing Nan Road, Urumqi; Tel: +86-991-3825128); Oulande Rental(Add:Cangfanggou Road, Urumqi; Tel: +86-991-5890226). Drive east on the Lian-Huo High-way for about 40KM and get out of the High-way at the Chaiwobao Exit. You will find the Chaiwobao Lake(28 Square Kilometer). It is the largest freshwater lake in the suburb of Urumqi. Thus, it also become the aquafarm of fishes like cyprinoid, grass carp, chub, herring and river crab. Then, you may either trek or drive to the Chaiwobao Salt Lake (27 Square Kilometer) which 5KM to the southeast of Chaiwobao Lake. Nicknamed as the “Chinese Dead Sea”, the Salt Lake is impregnated with salt riching in Glauber's salt. Nowadays, it has not been developed both as a place of origin of salt but also a popular tourist site. The entrance fee of the Chaiwobao Salt Lake is ￥30.00 net per person. Optional tourist programmes offered here are like swimming, salt bath, salt field, salt hill, race on salt course, Salt Museum, fishing and so on. Besides the two lakes, Chaiwobao has earned its fame from the delicious Braised Chicken with Potato and Red Pepper for about 15 years. You can not miss it. The most famous restaurant is named Yangle Restaurant. You will easily find it. In the Chaiwobao Salt Lake Resort, there are a few newly-built hotels for travelers to spend time there leisurely.

In the afternoon, you will drive to visit the ancient Ulab City. It is located 17KM to the south of Urumqi and neighboring the Ulab Reservoir. Some scholars think the city was the ancient Luntai City holding north branch of Silk Road in Tang Dynasty. It was mentioned in some poetry of the Tang Dynasty and Ci (another form of the poetry) in Song Dynasty like ”Alfalfa in northwestern region lush, and horses in Luntai fat”. Now, there is no entrance fee for the city. But visitors should get the oral permit from the Ulab City Villagers Committees(Tel: 86-991-5861126) at the west side of the old city. If you did not bring anything to eat for lunch, you may eat at Villagers Committees or some local family introduced by the Villagers Committees. The meal charge with be discussed by then. Uncivil act like camping in the ancient city or climbing the city wall are all prohibited. If interested, you may walk to the nearby Ulab Reservoir, but anything regarding polluting the water is prohibited. Return to Urumqi. The pleasant tour ends here.