Yining is a beautiful and mysterious city, a place full of life’s pleasures and fireworks. For friends who are new to Yining, you may not be familiar with this city, you may not know where to go. Here are some of the popular check-in spots in Yining. Let’s take a look!
1、Kazanqi
Kazanqi is located in the southern part of Yining City, Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture. It is a large-scale original ecological humanistic scenic spot that reflects folk customs. It is the image window of Yining and a national 4A-level tourist attraction. When you come here, you can experience the strong “Xinjiang flavor” in terms of food, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment.
Kazanqi’s various streets and alleys are home to many ethnic folk buildings, especially some century-old residences, with their traditional styles and diverse styles, giving Kazanqi the reputation of “Folk Residence Museum”.
The blue-toned residences, the bright sunshine, and the various colors that collide together, like a colorful town standing in the city, attract people to come.
2、Liuxing Street
Liuxing Street is a century-old street district designed by German designers in Yining City, Ili Prefecture, Xinjiang. It is a witness to the collision of Chinese and Western cultures and a national-level tourist and leisure street district. It gathers local influential original ecological music courtyards and local artist music studios, promoting the exchange and integration of folk music arts of various ethnic groups.
Compared with the traditional folk customs of Kazanqi, it is more modern and youthful. New and old elements collide here, making it a good place to check in for both food and scenery.
The “Alexander Accordion Museum” is also a must-visit. The Accordion Museum is full of various accordions, a total of more than 800. They were all collected by Alexander from more than 20 countries over decades. Each accordion is labeled with its year and country of origin. Most of the accordions here, regardless of size or age, can be played.
3、Ili River
The Silk Road Light Tourist Town is located in the Chongqing North Road core area of Yining City’s Economic Development Zone, next to Yining Railway Station, covering an area of 32,000 square meters. It is the largest tourist town in Ili, integrating food and entertainment, especially at night, attracting countless tourists to come and taste local specialties and snacks, including folk culture, Ili’s diverse folk culture, art paintings, famous and special products, and special food, all of which are showcased here. After dinner, take a stroll along the Silk Road Ancient Road Culture Pedestrian Street and the Minsu Culture Themed Hotel.
The Ili River Tourist Area is an open, multi-functional, one-stop eat, shop, travel, and entertainment tourist area based on the protection and cultivation of the Ili River’s ecological environment and relying on the landscape along the river.
The scenic spot has created many projects such as cruises, tea restaurants, windmill corridors, and music restaurants.
4、Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture Museum
The new building of the Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture Museum is located at the intersection of Culture Road and Ruyi Street in Yining City’s Development Zone, with a construction area of 16,197 square meters. It consists of six parts: the Party History Exhibition Hall, the History and Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, the Exhibition Hall of the Community of Shared Future for Mankind, the Exhibition Hall of Nature and Resources, the Inter-museum Exchange Exhibition Hall, and the Fine Art Exhibition Hall.
The museum houses over 2,700 precious cultural relics. Among the collection are many fine products of the grassland culture, including large-scale grassland bronzeware, deer stones, gold and silver ware from the Boma ancient tombs, silk embroidery relics, as well as grassland stone men, and Chagatai silver, which are very famous. Some of the precious relics have been exhibited abroad.
The Ili Prefecture Museum, as an important cultural landmark of Ili, has always been an important window for people to learn about Ili, the region’s civilization process, and experience Ili’s ethnic culture, attracting both local and foreign tourists to visit and check in. Don’t miss it if you are visiting Ili for the first time!
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