Korla — Travel Guide
Korla, is a mid-sized city in central Xinjiang, and is, administratively, a county-level city and the seat of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, which is larger than Great Britain and is the largest Chinese prefecture. Korla is known for its "fragrant" pears. History with thousands of years of history, Korla was an important staging post in the middle of the Silk Road, because of the bottleneck of the Iron Gate Pass between Yanqi and Korla. It was set up as a county early in 1940, as a prefecture in 1954, and merged into the Bayin'guoleng Mongolia Autonomous prefecture in 1960. Finally, it was approved as a city in October 1979. The land is higher in the north, sloping to the lower south in a fan-shaped oasis of fertility. The Kongque River has the whole of its course through the area. This tributary of the Tarim flows through the south of the urban area into the largest river basin in China, the Tarim Basin. To the north of Korla, there are the Tianshan Mountain’s branches-Kuluke Mountain and Hualashan Mountain, and to the south lies the Taklimakan Desert, the second-largest desert in the world.
The best time to visit October to March.
By Air
Korla has its own airport with flights to Chengdu,
Korla Shopping Apocynum venetum tea is making from apocynum venetum grew around Lop Nor and Lop village that became the origin of another named of Lop apocynum tea. Qieqian jade, also known as Qiemo jade among Hetian jades in Xinjiang, is one of the top nephrite in China equal to Kunlun jade produced in the north range of Kunlun Mountain. Korla pear is a popular specialty among tourists travelling Korla because of its extremely sweet taste, tender and succulent pulpa.
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