Urumqi Tours

Urumqi is the capital city of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region located in China's most northwestern area. This literally "beautiful pasture" in Mongolian is a major transport node and the largest city of the whole Western Region. Situated in mainland China, Urumqi is renowned for being ranked in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most remote city from any sea (2,500 kilometers). The Han are the most important ethnicity of the population but Uyghurs, Hui and Kazakhs are also of great number giving a special cultural interest to this distant city! Urumqi enjoys a semi-arid continental climate with huge discrepancies between winter and summer times, the two longest months there. With continuous sunlight and bare precipitations, Urumqi enjoys an extremely ...

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