Wusun Ancient Trail, a treasure secret realm exclusively for hiking enthusiasts
✨The coolest hiking route in Xinjiang🎈 (Wusun Ancient Trail) || Route Classification
🚶Hiking Level: Heavy gear 8.5 level🎒, light gear 5 level, highest altitude 3900👀, maximum altitude difference: 1900
📅Hiking Days: 6 days
😎Wusun Ancient Trail itinerary as follows:
D1💗Urumqi - Yining City (It is recommended to take the night train🚂)
🛏Accommodation: Train
D2🥪Yining City - Tekes - Qiongkushitai
🌮Gather in Yining, after breakfast take a chartered car to Tekes County, drive: 2.5 hours. Have lunch🥘 in the Bagua City, continue to Qiongkushitai Village【Starting point of the hike】, drive: 3 hours.
👉Breakfast: Yining City/Lunch: Bagua City/Dinner: Qiongkushitai
🛌Overnight: Qiongkushitai log cabin
D3🚶Qiongkushitai - Log Cabin Campsite (Hike 15 kilometers)
😜After breakfast, follow the Qiongkushitai River upstream, there is a clear horse trail👣, the slope is gentle, herds of cattle and sheep along the way, log cabins scattered. Arrive at the log cabin campsite at an altitude of 2550 meters, with a water source.
🤔Today's difficulty: Level 3 Elevation gain: 850
🛌Overnight: Log Cabin Campsite
D4🧗♀️Log Cabin Campsite-Baozadun Pass- Kuokesu River Campsite (Hike 20 kilometers)
👣Depart from the log cabin, continue upstream along the Qiongkushitai River valley, will cross several scree slopes😎, in the afternoon you can see the azure sky above the snow line. Cross the Baozadun Pass, stand on top of the pass to feel the grandeur of nature😍, then follow a small path down Qiongdaban. A few hours later, arrive at the Kuokesu River valley to camp, with a water source.
😤Today's difficulty: Level 7 Elevation gain: 800 Descent: 1600
🛌Overnight: Kuokesu Campsite
D5😜Kuokesu River Valley - Zip line across the river - Akebulake Forest Management Station (Hike 20 kilometers)
🎉The biggest task today is to zip line across the Kuokesu River, super thrilling🎊 (There is a simple store at the zip line~ for resupply) After crossing the new bridge, start crossing the river 7 times (you can ride a horse across the river) Difficulty level 7, Elevation gain 700
🛌Overnight: Akebulake Forest Management Station Campsite
D6🤩Akebulake Forest Management Station - Paradise Lake (Hike 13 kilometers)
😎Today's journey is the most relaxed, follow the Akebulake River valley upstream, pass through high mountain pastures🐄, then gradually climb in altitude, follow the horse trail uphill, the scenery is desolate. Surrounded by mountains, a turn, and Paradise Lake suddenly appears in front of you, like a sapphire nestled among the mountains. Paradise Lake, also known as Akekule Lake, has a surface altitude of 3100 meters, a length of 6600 meters, and the widest point is 1900 meters, tonight camp by the lake. Difficulty: Level 5 Elevation gain: 500
🛌Overnight: Paradise Lake Campsite
D7🤨Paradise Lake - Akebulake Pass【Altitude 3900】- Bozkek Jirge Valley (Hike 25 kilometers)
🎈Bypass the lake, cross the steep Akebulake Pass from the south shore of Paradise Lake, you can look back at Paradise Lake, bid farewell to it. After descending the pass, through many loose stones, enter the Boaozkeklik River valley to camp.
🛌Overnight: Bozkeklik River Valley Campsite
D8🚶Bozkek Jirge Valley - Heiying Mountain Township (End of the 27-kilometer hike) -- Kuche (You can take the train back to Urumqi the same night)
🎈Break camp from Bozkekerg Valley, continue to descend along the valley, the route is mainly gentle slopes and downhill. Along the way, you have to wade through the river nearly thirty times, the river is deep, and the current is rapid, some water levels reach the waist. Continue forward, exit the trumpet-shaped Heiying Mountain pass, end the hike, and take the shuttle vehicle to Kuche County.
D9🚂Kuche--Urumqi【Train or Airplane】~Various places
Wusun Ancient Road from Qiongkushitai Village in the north, to Heiyingshan Township in Baicheng County (also can be reversed), the whole journey is about 130km, on the way, it will overturn the snow-capped mountains, overturn the board, cross the virgin forest, the ice river, and the blue lake ....... Difficulty and scenery. Known as Xinjiang's "top landscape trail", it is called Xinjiang's three top hiking routes, along with Xiate Ancient Road and Wolf Tower.
Wusun Ancient Road, the north title of Zhungar Basin, the southern control of Tarim oasis, is the throat of Tianshan North and South, many nomadic peoples in history have to compete for this treasure. The Han Wu Emperor in BC made alliance with Wusun to fight the Huns; the Western Turks controlled Tianshan to rule the Tarim Basin in the Sui and Tang periods; The Tang Dynasty Xizheng Turku and the friendship with Turku Qishi, etc., were realized through Wusun Ancient Road.
Wusun Ancient Road refers to Wusun State to Guizi State through the north and south of Tianshan, hiking ancient roads are beautiful and very tired.
I don't know, I was shocked, it's really a paradise on earth, it's worth it.