7 Days Kashgar Group Tour

Attractions: Kashgar airport to hotel transfer
Activities: Our guide and driver will meet you at Kashgar airport then transfer you to your comfort hotel. You will free rest of the day to explore the area around your hotel and get yourself ready for Kashgar adventure.

Attractions: Apak Hoja Tomb, Live Stock Market, Sunday Market, Eid Kah Mosque, Old Town, Handicraft Street, Uyghur Family Lunch
Activities: We will begin our Kashgar city tour by visiting the Apak Hoja Tomb, also known as the “fragrant concubine tomb”.

Sunday Market, you will have your lunch either in a Uyghur private home or in a Uyghur restaurant (note: the request for having lunch in a Uyghur family must be booked in advance). After lunch we will wander through the winding narrow streets of the historic Kashgar Old Town rubbing shoulders with friendly Uyghur residents. Located at the spiritual heart of the Old Town is Eid Kah Mosque, the largest mosque in China. We will go inside and learn about Islam in Kashgar and how it is practiced by the Uyghur people in the region. After our visit to the Mosque, we will stroll down Handicraft Street, viewing pots being hammered, wood craftsmen at work and traditional musical instrument workshops. After the tour, you will be brought back to your hotel.
Note: For entering the Mosque, visitors should dress respectfully: no shorts or short sleeved shirts and women should cover their heads with a scarf.

Attractions: Karakoram Highway, Opal Village, Corner Lake, Karakul Lake, Kirgiz Yurt Visit

making and Uyghur food stalls. There is a village market here on Monday’s. Half an hour’s drive from the village we arrive at Oytagh Red Mountain. The mountain valley is surrounded by a beautiful backdrop of multi-colored mountains topped by snow-capped peaks. Corner Lake (BulungKul) is a tranquil shallow lake where you can take very nice photographs of the lake with stunning reflections of the sand mountains. Karakul Lake is 3600 meters above sea level. It is located between Mt. Muztagata (7546 meters) and Mt. Gonger (7719 meters), said to be 2 of the 6 most beautiful mountains in the world. We will visit local Kyrgyz yurts before heading to Tashkurgan. For your lunch, you can either have a lunch in a Kyrgyz yurt by sampling their simple authentic food, or bring your own fruit and bread from Opal Village and picnic by the lake. After lunch, you can walk around the lake on foot or rent a camel or horse and ride around the lake. After the tour, you will proceed to Tashkurgan for spend the night.

Note: Guests will need to carry their passports with them on this tour as they are required to show these at the Gaz check point (around an hour after visiting the colorful mountain on the first day and also on the way back to Kashgar). Everybody at this point needs to be registered by the authorities due to its close proximity to many bordering countries.
It is also advisable to bring warm clothes as temperatures here can be colder than those found in Kashgar.
It is also recommended to bring sunscreen and mosquito spray if you are an easy target for mosquitoes.

Attractions: Stone City, Tashkurgan Grassland, Tashkurgan Cultural and Custom Museum
Activities: Tashkurgan is a small town on the Pamir Plateau, that was once extremely isolated until the rebuilding of the Karakorum Highway in 1987.

here will be followed by the Tashkurgan grassland which is next to the Stone Fort. Tashkurgan Grassland is where you can visit free grazing sheep, goat, yak, and horses. In summer, locals put up tents and serve lunch and dinner for tourists. Last but not least, you will visit Tashkurgan cultural and custom museum that is where you can learn about Tajik culture and customs. Once you are done with your visit, then we will head down to Kashgar. On the way back, you are more than welcome to make many photo stops as you wish.

Attractions: Stone City, Tashkurgan Grassland, Tashkurgan Cultural and Custom Museum
Attractions: free day
Activities: Today is designed for you to have a day off from tour and enjoy the day on your own pace. Except your hotel, no service is included. But if you wish to have a tour in or around Kashgar, you can speak with us and we can arrange it for fee.

Attractions: Shipton’s Arch
Activities: After the breakfast at the hotel, we will head to Shipton’s Arch, the world’s tallest natural arch. It is reached after 2 hours driving from Kashgar, and a 45-minute walk.

known to the West in his book Mountains of Tartary. The arch has figured in the Guinness Book of Records for its exceptional height, estimated to be 1,200 feet, about equal to that of the Empire State Building. Its span is roughly 180 feet. The “true” height of the arch is debatable: viewed from the east (the usual approach route) it appears to be 200 feet tall from the top of the 100-foot rubble pile; from the west side (approachable only via technical ascent), the height is closer to the estimated 1,200 feet. Thus, the height depends upon what is considered to constitute the base of the arch either the base of the rubble pile (partially under the arch where the span achieves its maximum width) or the floor of the west side canyon head, 900 feet lower. After visiting the arch, we will follow the same trail back to the car/van and return to Kashgar.