Going to Yili is definitely not just about flower viewing.

There are many attractions to see here.

Apart from that, there is a lot of scenery to see.

When you go to Yili, you can try local food.

It is recommended that you go to a place where it is in full bloom, then you can see more beautiful scenery.

Best Travel Time: The peak tourist season in Ili starts from April and ends in October.

The peak season is from May to August.

May and June are when wildflowers and lavender bloom.

From July to August, the melons and fruits are fragrant and delicious food can be enjoyed everywhere, but in August the flowers on the grassland begin to disappear.

From September, autumn begins in the valleys and forests.

People who like hiking should catch up with this safer season.

After the end of October, Yili enters winter.

Although many attractions and hotels are closed, it is still fun to enjoy the snow alone.

Although Yili is covered with ice and snow in April, the apricot blossoms here have already bloomed in the cold valley, ushering in the flowering season that lasts for half a year.

The spring of May is the peak season of Tianshan red flowers blooming, which lasts until the beginning of summer at the end of June.

It was also the most spectacular lavender season in the valley, hence the name "Chinese Provence".

Not just Provence, China.

After July, under the snow line of the Tianshan Mountains, rapeseed, perilla, and wild flowers are everywhere in the Tekes Valley.

Dazzling sunflowers can also be seen in the vineyards and watermelon fields surrounding the valley.

What to eat in Yili Yining, the capital of Yili, is a place that makes people want to eat.

The Uyghur and Hui cuisine are mouth-watering.

You can choose to go to Hanren Street, where there are various snacks and delicacies, such as barbecue, pilaf, cold noodles, noodles, noodles, and toast.

It's not particularly flavorful, but it's better than the whole thing.

When it comes to specialty restaurants and snacks, you should go to Jiefang South Road south of Baitullah Mosque, where you can find all the Uyghur delicacies you can think of.

From luxuriously decorated hotels to steamed bun shops, ice cream shops, noodle shops, barbecue restaurants, pigeon soup shops, modern burger shops, as well as Turkish-style modern burger shops and Western food restaurants, some are even open 24 hours a day.

There are also many elegant Uyghur restaurants in Haraqin Banner and Liuxing Street.

Many people go in and order a side of noodles and juice, usually at a reasonable price.

: From April 2010 to January 2010, in the early spring of Ili Xinghuagou, people were awakened by the apricot blossoms in Ili.

Apricot blossoms bloom in the cold valley, ushering in the half-year flowering season in Ili.

Over time, wild apricot flowers will bloom everywhere.

From Hami and Shanshan to Korla, Kuqa to Yining and Kashgar, you can see a sea of ??apricot flowers like clouds.

There is a huge wild apricot forest in Class 4, Turgen Township, Xinyuan, the hometown of the Kazakhs near the Nalati Grassland, which has become a new favorite among photography enthusiasts in recent years.

Apricot blossoms usually bloom around April 20th.

It is worth noting that the apricot flowers in full bloom are not the most beautiful.

When it's in bud, the pink blooms and white blooms look like a dream.

The best shooting time is around 8 o'clock Beijing time, one and a half hours after sunrise.

I can’t wait for the spring of Tianshan red flowers and apricot flowers in May. The blooming of Tianshan red flowers means that the warm summer of Tianshan has officially arrived.

As long as the spring rains are abundant, from May to June in Daxigou Township and Sarbulake Town in Huocheng County, Yuzi Township and Awulia Township in Molotohuti in Yining County, Musi Township in Nilek County, and Xinyuan County in the east

In Zeketai Town, you can see Tianshan red flowers in full bloom.

Interestingly, as early as the 1960s, this scenic spot was photographed by filmmakers and was reported by the masses as "a large number of opium poppies are grown in Xinjiang."

After collecting samples, researchers from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the safflower is indeed a wild relative of the poppy, the black-ringed poppy, but it does not contain morphine toxins.

After the Ili lavender Tianshan red flower season in June, the contestants who took over Ili turned to artificially grown lavender.

If you just want to take a look, don’t take it too seriously.

If you go to Horgos Port or Cha County in June, you will often see lavender fields on the roadside.

As early as 1964, Xinjiang introduced three lavender varieties from Provence, France for trial planting.

The planting area has not expanded in decades.

With the development of tourism, lavender has become one of Yili's main "ecological products".

On the way to Horgos Port, you can stop by the grain depot of the 65th Regiment. The lavender fields there are among the best in Qingshui River.

But if you just want to take pictures of people, those paid parks are more suitable for tourists.

Compared with the lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Sailimu Lake has clear water, blue sky, rich aquatic plants and lush trees.

Sleeping in a Mongolian herdsman's yurt or a Kazakh herdsman's yurt seems to be an indispensable ritual, so that you will not miss the West Sea grassland at sunset and the swans roaming in the swamp before sunrise.

Summer Gorge Summer Gorge is probably the best hiking trail in Central Asia.

Flowers bloomed on the soft meadows of pine needles.

You can choose to ride a horse or walk to the huge glacier under Khan Tengri.

If you have better foot strength and experience, following the tour guide and a horse through the vast Tianshan Mountains to the edge of Taklimakan will be a replica of a trip two thousand years ago.

Nowhere else in Qiongkushtai is life closer to the Tianshan Mountains than here.