Travel with Nature

This article is about the Urumqi travel and you can find some useful information in it if you are planning your Urumqi travel now.

Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is located in an alluvial fan-shaped basin on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. The city opens on to the Junggar Basin in the north. In the Mongolian language, Urumqi means “Beautiful Meadow.”

To get here, you can take the plane and this trip is about 5 hours (from Shanghai to Urumqi). The airfare is not cheap: 2850 rmb for one way if you are not able to get some discount. (info for your China travel and vacations)

If this is your first time to Urumqi, you will find that it is very different as what you thought. Actually, Urumqi is very similar as other big cities of China (like Beijing, Shanghai, etc). You can find nice pubs, bars, shopping malls, supermarkets and all kinds of modern things here.

One thing you will need to pay attention in Urumqi is the time difference. Urumqi is in the very west of China but there is only one time zone in China – Beijing time zone. This makes the office hours here a little bit weird: people start to work at 10:30, have lunch on 14:00, sleep on 2:00. Pretty interesting, We all know that there are several time zones in the U.S. , the American people don’t have this kind of bother but there will be some other confusions too in U.S. because of using different time zones.(helpful info for your China vacations and tours)

In Urumqi, you can find lots of delicious food. The most famous ones here are: Xinjiang BBQ, Dapanji Chicken, Shouzhuafan Rice. I like the Xinjiang BBQ very much. (cost 2-3 rmb for one tring) The Shouzhuafan Rice is also called the “hand-fed dinner”. You can try this unique dinner if you like.

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