Xinjiang travel guide, if you come to Xinjiang, don’t miss these lakes

When you come to Xinjiang, in addition to mountain pastures, grassland scenery, desert Gobi, etc., Xinjiang also has beautiful lakes waiting for you to see.

Sailimu Lake

Limu Lake is located in the North Tianshan Mountains in Bole City, Bortala Prefecture, Xinjiang, close to Huocheng County in Ili. The water of Sailimu Lake is crystal clear and the transparency can reach 12 meters. Sailimu Lake is surrounded by mountains and there are glaciers in winter, forming a closed alpine basin water system. The average annual precipitation on the lake is about 450 mm, and the annual precipitation is mostly concentrated in April-August.

The water of Sailimu Lake is unpredictable. Every time we see it, it will show us different colors. With the different refraction of sunlight, the strength of the light is different. The lake water sometimes appears light blue and sometimes appears dark blue. The color, sometimes showing a royal blue, and sometimes silver, dazzling. Every summer is the most beautiful season in Sailimu Lake. Every summer, the grass grows along the lake and the flowers are overwhelming. From a distance, the flowers cover the grassland, forming a beautiful and moving picture.

Kanas Lake

Kanas Lake is located in the northern part of Burqin, Altay Region, Xinjiang. The water in the lake comes from glacial meltwater from Kuitun and Youyi Peak and local precipitation. The Kanas scenic area consists of mountains, rivers, forests, lakes, grasslands, etc. Natural landscape composition.

Kanas Lake is located deep in the forest of Altay Mountains. The lake is crystal clear. The water of Kanas Lake is a thousand miles, winding in the valley, forming beautiful water beaches such as Wolong Bay and Moon Bay, Kanas Lake Surrounded by snowy peaks, green land surrounding the jungle, lakes and mountains are beautiful, it is known as "the fairyland on earth, the garden of gods".

Bosten Lake

Bosten Lake is located in Bohu County, southeast of the Yanqi Basin in Korla, Xinjiang. It is the largest inland freshwater soaking lake in China. The Bosten Lake basin is located in a closed intermountain basin --- Yanqi Basin. The general topography trend of Bosten Lake is high in the north and low in the south. , The summer is dry and hot, the autumn temperature drops rapidly, and the winter is severely cold. It is a typical continental desert climate and a transitional zone of the northern and southern Xinjiang.

Barkol Lake

Barkol Lake is located 18 kilometers northwest of Barkol County, Xinjiang. It is a plateau lake with an elevation of 1585 meters. It is surrounded by undulating mountains, beautiful water plants and rippling blue waves. It has a magnificent spectacle of "mirror covered mountains".

Whenever summer is in the middle of summer, Barkol Lake is beautiful and enchanting. Herdsmen graze leisurely by the lake, cattle and sheep in groups, leisurely eating grass. When the strong wind blows across the lake, you can see the green waves rolling, the green grass is against the sparkling lake, the swans in the lake, the birds in the sky, and the green hills on both sides of the lake, at this time Barkol presents a bright Landscape.

Aiding Lake

Aiding Lake is located in Turpan City, Xinjiang. It is the destination of surface runoff in the Turpan Basin. Aiding Lake is different from other lakes. Its lake surface is full of salt crusts. The outer circle is a lacustrine plain and the surface is hard salt land. , The middle circle is the salt marshland, and the bottom is silt. The current Aiding Lake is a piece of dry and cracked land. Walking along the lake during the day, you can see the Gobi full of salt. When there is a hint of grass, the plants in the lake have become fossils over time.