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Altay

      Altay is a place which belonged to Hun in Han Dynasty, it belonged to Turki in Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, belonged to West Liao in Song Dynasty, was a place of later king of Mongol Wokuotai tribe, Mongol and Kazakh nomad tribe here in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, Kbuduo and Altay is self-governed managed respectively in the Guangxu 32th (1906),set up the amban, directly under the jurisdiction of center regime of Qing. It was renamed Altay handle-affairs official in Mingguo period, it belonged to Ashandao in Xinjiang in 1919,set up Ashan special office in three-region-revolution period. Then it was renamed as Altay special office in 1954,now it is called Altay region.
  Altay locus has been a place where many nomad nationality moved about. Lama of lead the soldiers --Hutuktu. gungzhalacan founded the Chenghua temple here in 1871,people began to settle down here, was called Chengyan Town. It became into station of later Altay handle-affairs official. It belonged to Ashan special district in 1911,after Ashan belonged to Xinjiang, it was called Ashan special office in 1919.Chenghua county was founded in 1921.It was renamed as Altay county in 1954,was renamed as Altaty city.

Places of Interest

Nort lake

 It lies in Nort mountains east of Altay mountains in Qinghe county in IIli Kazakstan autonomy state. Strange mountains are high up in the air, pure white snow, silvery light irradiate. Pine and cypress are evergreen, flowers and grass are flourish by the lake. Lake water is clear like mirror, the sun and the moon and stars in the sky, strange and sheer mountains around the lake, flowers, grass and trees mirror in the lake, is a tourist attraction of passing the summer in leisurely day.

Kermuqi stone

people and grave It lies in Kermuqi of 12 kilometers southwest of YIli Kazakstan autonomy state Altay city, there are over tens stone people and stone casket, they were tomb bury of nomad nationality from War kingdom period B.C to the 6th to 7th century. They can were divided into two types: single tomb bury, this form is smaller, some stone caskets stands stone statues; double casket has rectangular stone wall which was built by pieces stones, it is over 10 meters long, stone casket is in the stone wall, it is symmetrical in the left and right, stone stands before stone wall, also standing stones, stone people has one generally, also have two or four standing side by side, they stand and face the east ,Figure is small, early sculpt is simple, carving by negative line, later sculpt is basso-relieve mainly, its sculpt has been developed, you can look at finery and extremity obviously. Excavated culture relics have stone cluster, bony chain, stone jar, gallipot; there are bony ornamental, iron sward, etc, and have the phenomena of burring with dead.

Altay Birch Park

Located in the Kelan Valley which is 2Km to the Altay city.It is only half a square kilometer in are.The place is divided into several islands by the river.There are many kinds of birch trees here.It is peaceful and quite place for the local people to enjoy the shade in Summer .

Fuhai Butterfly Valley

60 Kilometers to the NorthEastern Fuhai,there is a beautiful valley which the local Kazak named Kubelikbulak ,means butterfly spring.

The valley lies in the middle range of the Altay Mountain,there is lush grassland, clear water as well as beautiful flowers.In June and July, there are thousands of butterflies flock here,they cover the 60 square kilometers valley.There are various species of precious butterflies.It is still one unanswered mysteries why there ther are so many butterflies flock here.

 Halongala Mountain Hot springs

Llies in north of Fuhai county, height above the sea level is about 400 meters. There are 17 springs. Spring have different colors and different temperature. Temperature of thermal spring is about 34 degrees, temperature of hot spring is about 60 centigrade or so. Halongala Mountain Hot spring have different features. Flood spring is red like flood, silvery spring have strings of blebs like silvery bead; there are little frog in the frog spring; snake spring, look at from the entrance, there are several little snakes in the bottom. There are heart spring, cold spring, milk spring, warm spring, etc more. Thermal spring have good curative effect for skin disease, rheumatoid arthritis, neurasthenic, etc. Here climate is cool, air is fresh, is a deal place of recuperate and prevent sun stroke, at present, there are roads.

Jiashihalagai Prairie

Located 60km to the Northwest of Altay city,it is 1900-2400meters above sea level.here you can not only enjoy the beautiful rural scenery ,but also can you experience the Kazak nomadic life as well visiting the goldmine.

Altay Petroglyph corridor

Fluctuant Altay mountains, east from Qinghe county to western Jmuni, Habahe county, there are rich ancient rock painting in stretch in an unbroken chain 1,000 kilometers interlaced rock, are singular ancient rock painting gallery in the world. The content of rock painting is very extensive: have abundant shapes of animals, such as sheep, cattle, horse, camel, deer, dog, wolf, etc; have scene of people lived, such as hunting, grazing, dancing, religionary movement, and so on. These rock paintings are similar to rock painting which were found in Mongolian Yinshan mountains wolf mountain region and Black mountains of Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu province; are accord with animal grain design in Qing and Han period in Shanxi in behavior form and art style. these cliff paintings was produced by Sais two thousand years ago by primitive textual research originally, then were added by past dynasties nomad nationality ,are reappearance of life of past dynasties nomad nationality. These rock paintings include rock carving and rock drawing, although many rock paintings are eroded by wind and rain ,by now they are still clear and visible.

 

Blunto Lake

Blunto Lake is called Wulungu lake. It lies in northwest of Fuhai county in IIli Kazak autonomy state, confluent of Wulungu River. Area is 827-square-kilometer,water depth is 5--10 meters generally, height above sea level of water surface is 468 meters. Bulrush is very flourish, field and grassland are wide around the lake. lake water is a little salt, marine lives is abundant, there are, carp, perch, crucian, etc. Mist-covered water is vast, color of water is the same as the sky, there are often pelagic swans, flying seagulls, fish-boat and voice of oars. Lake water ice over in winter, chisel a hole to going fishing, having a unique sentiment. Because of charming and gentle scenery, is also called "bright pearl of Junggar".

Silver Water-Ertix River

Ertix rive r is the only river in China which flows to Arctic Ocean.It is originated from the Northern slope of Altay Mountain.From the root to the waterhead to the border is about 546km,and its drainage area is 57000square Km.Around the river ,there are many kinds of poplar trees.It is considered the Gene Base of poplar trees.

Sand Lake

located in the habahe county,the area is only half asquare kilometer.It is surrounded by mountain,where there are birch and cypress.The scenery changes with the seasons,in July,there are lotus grown on the lake,and there are alos wild geese .

Kanas Natural Reserve

Kanas natural reserve lies in the north of the Burjin county, is a all round natural sight region reserve, its total area is 5,558 square kilometers. Within this region reserve, there are headstrem of two big branch of Erqis River--Burqin River and Habahe, there is the highest peak in the Altay mountains--Friendship apex which is 4,374 meters high. There are 374 agent flickering glacier, the longest Kansa glacier, is 10 kilometers long. These melt water brought up the Kanas natural sight reserve.
Kanas natural sight region reserve is made up of green muddy quartzite, powdery sandstone, quartzite, etc, and mica of Haixining period, is a classic ladder transect mountain, the mountain's height has very big difference,vertical natural sight is very obvious, from the foot of the mountain to top, there are seven national sight regions, namely black calcium earth meadow grassland region, hilly country gray and black taiga belt, hilly float taiga belt, subalpine meadow belt, alpine meadow belt and permafrost belt, etc. Complicated landform physiognomy and natural sights provided favorable conditions for various animals and plants' survival. This place a unique distributing region of Siberian animals and plants north of ancient Europe in our country, there are about one thousand kinds of plants,thirty-four sorts of animals, over one hundred sorts of birds, seven sorts of ReptIlian amphibian, over three hundred kinds of insects, eight kinds of fish. Wood have high and big arbor like Siberian larch, Siberian spruce, Siberian red pine, Siberian fir, and so on, they blot out the sky and ward off the sun, composing the characteristic virgin woods, it is the existent most integrated woods in aboriginality. The trees strew at random orderly in woods, high and big arbor have two and three meters different height' wild rose, gooseberry, honeysuckle and spiral Siberian climates. There are also lichen, Siberian clematis and bilberry, etc. various colorful wild flowers covered whole mountain outside the woods, red peony and erberry flowers, blue myosotis, big funnel flowers, yellow canary-creeper, flower-de-luce, white dependence flower, black aconitic flower, there are birches, Altay poplars, red poplars, gray poplars, Sayan willows, etc along the ravine and valley.

There are various animals in different height in woods, rare red deer, snow leopard, grouse, cabrite, thunderbird, tree frog, black bee, white butterfly, etc.

There is a Kanas lake in the center of region reserve hilly country forest. Kanas lake is made up of the huge compound glacier in the second ice age, now there are many relics of glacier around the lake, lake surface is 374 meters high, lake is 25 kilometers long, and is 1.5--3.9 kilometers wide, area is 37.7 square kilometers, is about eight times of Heavenly Lake. The deepest water level of the lake is below the 176 meters, water quality the rate of mineralization is about 0.2 or so, in July and August, water temperatures over 200 degrees, margin of temperature in the day and at night is 12 centigrade or so. Lake water flux is about 50 cubic meters per second, variational height surface of lake is not overrun 50 centimeters. Because of steady water capacity, the bank of lake is very placid, swamp plant is very flourish, so it becomes a ideal place where fish and water bird spawn and raise up seeds, there are many rare fish in the lake.there are rare birds like swan, black crane, etc in summer in the lake.

The term "Kanas" belongs to Mongolian language, means beautiful, rich and mysterious. Kanas Lake is very beautiful and , but has a mystery surely. People observe the surface of lake in different climate and different position, and will find that water has different colors: overlook the surface from mountaintop, water is dark blue in fine days,and is gray green in cloudy days, and is ivory with a little blue and green in summer,like a crystal mirror in winter, so people also call Kanas lake as "change color lake", it is one place of the "mysteries". The scond "mysteries" is: long long ago, people of this region found that there was "bugbear of lake" in Kanas lake. They often heard strange voice in the lake and looked at very high water column in the lake. What it is that did mischief, people still haven't found out the fact, its real reason which need exploring more.
Kanas is natural sight region reserve, whether from the terms of genic type of species, natural scenery, geologic physiognomy or the terms of remains of ancient culture to look at, it has very big scientific review price.

 

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