Reaching Turpan at 6:30am then we continue with the car & driver hire as we are rushing and need to transfer to Urumqi the same day. We start off with the Jiaohe ancient city attraction at 9:30am. The whole ancient ruin is huge. We walk to the center where we can have a view of the ancient Jiaohe ruin.
Then we continue the walk to the Grand Temple and the further pagoda where it can take almost 2 hours just for the ruin tour under the hot sunny weather without much shade.
We complete the attraction at 12:15pm and then continue with Karez at 12:30pm. Karez irrigation system is a water system at turpan that show the ancient architecture to channel the water to the town from the mountain. Completed the Karez system at 1pm before heading to the local lamb bbq with dry mee. It is indeed a nice lunch.
Then we continue with the Enim Minaret visit at 2pm for an hour. We depart from Turpan to Urumqi at 4:30pm and it takes around 2 hours to reach Urumqi. Urumqi is indeed a huge city where it is a capital of the Xinjiang Province.
There are many Uighur ethnic at Urumqi and different culture at this city.
We stayed at a home local apartment with nice home decoration and local home feel at the outskirt of city center.
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