Winter Altay Blue Hour

📷Winter Altay | No one can resist the charm of the Blue Hour
Visiting Xinjiang in winter, the most romantic thing is to catch the "Blue Hour" in Altay🌌
— After sunset, the sky looks like a spilled palette: from golden yellow and orange-pink, gradually blending into dreamy light blue and misty purple, brief but enough to remember the whole winter⏳

📅 Blue Hour Guide
(No one should miss this moment!)
▪️ Sunset time: around 18:00 or later
▪️ Best time: stake out at 18:30｜Blue Hour starts at 19:00 (lasts only 20 minutes!)
▪️ Photography tips: find your spot early! Stunning shots guaranteed! You can even capture cinematic photos with your phone~

✨3 Must-Visit Spots + Hidden Experiences
1⃣️ Top of General Mountain near the cable car
🎿 Experience: Skiers rush to catch the last cable car before 17:30! At 18:30, watch the sea of clouds turn golden orange by the sunset, and at 19:00 the sky suddenly shifts to purple-blue. Skiing while chasing this romance is thrilling to the max!
2⃣️ Hemu Sunrise Viewing Platform
❄️ Experience: Bring a thermos of hot water to play “Blue Hour water splash freezing”! The wooden cabins in the snow glow with warm lights, the cold blue and warm yellow create a fairy tale vibe. Couples standing here look like screenshots from a romantic drama without any filter~
3⃣️ Kanas Fairy Three Bays
🌫️ Experience: Double hit of Blue Hour + morning fog! The morning frost and frozen lake wrapped in light blue mist feel like stepping into an ink painting. Photographers camping here get wallpaper-worthy shots every time~

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👇🏻Winter trip to Altay, this highly praised route by thousands,
takes you to the most photogenic Hemu + Sayram Lake + Kanas in one go
D1 | Various locations → Urumqi (warm up with a milk tea upon arrival)
D2 | Urumqi → S21 Desert Highway (see snow-covered desert wonders) → General Mountain (ski + chase sunset) → Altay
D3 | Altay → Taiga Forest Tunnel (snow cedar forest) → Kanas (snowy Three Bays hike, magical morning fog) → Free time
D4 | Kanas → Hemu (stay in snow-view wooden cabins, shoot snow mushrooms + cooking smoke)
D5 | Hemu → Jikepulin Ski Resort (ski powder snow) → Baili Oilfield → Karamay
D6 | Karamay → 360° tour around Sayram Lake (shoot blue ice + ice bubbles) → Sayram Lake Town
D7 | Sayram Lake → Second visit to General Mountain (in-depth blue ice viewing) → Urumqi
D8 | Urumqi → Warm home

Altay’s Blue Hour is nature’s limited-time surprise. Choose a suitable small group to start this romance, or you’ll really regret it!