Travel Guide East Asia China

The Flaming Mountain is located in north Turphan Basin of Xinjiang Province. The Flame Mountain starts from Langan Quicksand River of Shanshan County and ends at the Peach Channel in the Turpan Basin. The Flaming Mountain is very popular thanks to a classical novel, The Journey to the West by the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) writer, [...]

Located in the southern rim of the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Tuopulukedun Temple is 2.25 meters long and two meters wide, with walls about 1.3 meters high. It is the smallest
temple in the world.
The temple is wood-and-mud structured and has fine frescos of Mahayana scriptures on the four walls. [...]

Situated on Bayinbuluke Plain in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Korla Swan Lake is a famous swan lake nature reserve in China and one of the largest swan reserves in the world. Thousands of swans of different species live in the area, providing the spectacle of thousands of swans in flight across the vast open sky.
Swan [...]