Hotan — Travel Guide
Hotan is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in western China. The city proper of Hotan broke off from the larger Hotan County to become an administrative area in its own right in August 1984. It is the seat of Hotan Prefecture. Hotan is situated in the Tarim Basin some 1,500 kilometres southwest of the regional capital, Urumqi. It lies just north of the Kunlun Mountains, which are crossed by the Sanju, Hindutash and Ilchi passes. The town, located southeast of Yarkant County and populated almost exclusively by Uyghurs, is a minor agricultural center. An important station on the southern branch of the historic Silk Road, Hotan has always depended on two strong rivers - the Karakash River and the White Jade River to provide the water needed to survive on the southwestern edge of the vast Taklamakan Desert. The White Jade River still provides water and irrigation for the town and oasis.
The best time to visit October to March.
By Air
Hotan Airport serves the city.
Hotan produce from Xinjiang in China, already several thousand years history be a kind of Chinese culture. And is one of Chinese most five famous jades and also the natural essence of good fortune. Hotan is mildness and exquisite and present a grease sheen which has 4 kinds of basic tone , the white jade , topaz , sapphire , black jade that claimed. Hotan have no gradational distinction, but is divided into mountain and river materials according to the geology source.
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