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Aletai or Altay is a city in Xinjiang Province of China. Go 100 km or so in any direction except South and you hit a border: Mongolia to the East, Russia to the North, Khazakstan to the West.

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[edit] By Plane

The Aletai city airport is located 17 km from the town center and can be reached by taxi. The only destination you can fly to is Urumqi.

[edit] By Bus

Location: Tuanjie Lu

• Burqin - takes about 2 hours
• Urumqi - takes about 12 hours
• Yining - takes about 2 days

[edit] Get around

[edit][add listing] See

• Birch Forest Park - prime bird-watching spot as well as amply endowed with wildflowers

[edit][add listing] Do

Difficult to find anything to do here, it takes 1 hour to walk through the town, though doing some shopping is not a bad idea.

[edit][add listing] Buy

All kinds of chirstals.

[edit][add listing] Eat

Lamb shishkebab, in local dialect is called Kebab, and in Chinese is called Yangrouchuer. Boiled lamb, in local dialect is called Gushi, and in Chinese is called Shouzhurou.

[edit][add listing] Drink

Original Kazak yoghurt, in Kazak is called Kitek. In Chinese it's Suannai.

[edit][add listing] Sleep

Aletai Diqu Bingguan, local 3 star hotel, probabely the best you can find, it's in city center, alone the Kelang river, no one speak English there, the hotel restaurant is also descnet. tel: +86- 906- 2122 188

Golden Bridge Hotel, local 3 star hotel, in city center, no one speak English, tel: +86- 906- 2127 566.

[edit] Get out

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