Kanas & Hemu autumn phototour
The timber villages and the three bays worked around the gold fortnight, with dawn hours on the water.
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All the journeys, one page.
Fourteen private journeys across four regions — from a three-day desert taster to the eighteen-day flagship. Every row links to the full itinerary.
Explore the guide ↓Xinjiang, all regions
- The plate
- 14 journeys
- The range
- 3 – 18 days
- The range, money
- ¥3,600 – ¥49,800
- The comparison
- Honest
The complete plate.
The table below lists every journey on the plate. Days and prices are the journey's own; the effort column is our honest grading; the window column is when the route genuinely works. Journeys fall into their region's page from here — the comparisons are deliberately side by side.
Altai journeys.
Autumn gold and the snow belt.
The Altai ski week
City powder, the country's biggest verticals, and two nights in snowbound Hemu.
Ili journeys.
Grasslands, passes and the green corridor.
The Wusun ancient trail
120 km over the Tianshan on the old horse road — two passes, glacial rivers, Paradise Lake.
The Xiata valley & Muzart glacier
Forest, hot springs and the ice wall at eye level — the pass without the full crossing.
The Ili valley cycling week
Quiet valley roads through orchards and the octagon city to the horse country at Zhaosu.
Turpan journeys.
The oasis below sea level.
The Turpan oasis walk
Jiaohe at dawn, the karez, the vineyard villages and the dunes — winter-friendly.
Turpan & Kumtag desert camp
The ruined cities by rail, then a night in the dune-field camp — the easiest desert night in China.
Pamir & Tarim journeys.
The caravan country and the gold.
Kashgar & the Pamir road
The caravan capital, then the highway up to Karakul and the stone city at Tashkurgan.
The Muztagh Ata expedition
Three high camps on the west ridge of the father of ice mountains.
The Tarim poplar autumn loop
The Luntai park and its vintage railway worked around the gold fortnight, with the desert crossing and Hotan.
Crossing journeys.
The roads that stitch the plate together.
The Duku highway self-drive
Your own vehicle and a lead car across the 561-kilometre Tianshan crossing.
The Xinjiang silk road flagship
The whole territory end to end — Turpan, the Ili valley, the caves, the desert, the Pamir.
The silk road oases loop
The classic northern arc: Urumqi, Turpan, Korla, Kuqa and the desert's rim.
The Hexi corridor
The classic overland approach to the region from Xi'an and Lanzhou.