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Xinjiang Silk Road Ice & Snow Folklure Festival

Xinjiang was called Western region in ancient times which is famous on the silk road .

The silk road is an international road of  historical significance. The ancient has its start in Chang’an , an ancient capital of China (now Xi’an)  and its terminus on the eastern coast of the Mediterranen, with half of it running across Xinjiang .There are three routes in Xinjiang we call  the northern route  southern route and the middle route. So every year mainly in summer and autumn there are many tourists (foreigners and Chinese )  come to Xinjiang experience the minority culture ,custom ,and the unique landscape but during the winter time few people come here to enjoy another kind of folk culture .many people just know in summer  the scenery in Kanas is very beautiful but they do not know the most beautiful  Kanas is in winter not in summer .during winter the Kanas just like a paradise the birches are decorated by white snow , the houses is covered by snow  like many white mushroom grown on the ground and many wild animals are happily playing in the forest .if you stay in such fantastic place you will forget all the troubles .so for those people who love the snow and ice do not just think about northeastern of China ,In terms of the quality of snow and the ice ,Xinjiang is also the best place to enjoy the snow and ice festival .you can play football on the snow ground ,skiing ,skiplane and skibob and so on if only games related to the terms of snow  you can play here too . there are more than one hundred skating places among them more than ten big international skating places .every  year on  the middle of December there will held the snow and ice festival you not only can skiing or playing games on the snow ground but also can enjoy the ice sculpture and folk songs  dances and the different minority culture and custom for example you will listen to the uygur people’s singing and dancing , brave uygur people perform the Dawaz . “Dawaz” means walking on the high  rope , is one of important activity.its like a fantastic acrobatic .In  Xinjiang ‘winter besides skating ,ice sculpture you also can go to the southern Xinjiang :riding on the horse back to see the sunset in the desert and take pictures for the “thousand-year old” divers-form poplar trees .In the northern Xinjiang if you are tired of seeing the snow grass land you can go into the kazak people’s winter house to experience the Akeng’s singing and dancing from this you will know more about kazak people’s culture.

In Xinjiang you can taste many delicious snake food such as the Mutton skewers , thin dumplings , Samsa, plov rice (very wholesome ), boiled mutton, roast whole lamb so on and so forth . after eating some snack food  drinking one cup of milk tea can help you digest .when you finished you trip you want to take some souvenirs for you family members or friends you can go to Erdaoqiao bridge grand bazaar to pick any kind of handicrafts for them all of  the handicrafts with many ethnic groups ‘characteristic because Xinjiang is a multi-nationalities province .

Seeing is believing so Welcome you to come to Xinjiang in winter to experience another kind of folk-culture and scenery . In winter you come to Xinjiag you can get 50% discount  of airplane tickets and almost half  price of hotels and scenic tickets .in Chinese poplar saying goes like this : though spend little money  you can get the best service ,so do not miss such good chance to see another side of  Xinjiang .

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