Aletai

By plane

The Aletai City airport (AAT) is 17 km from the town center and can be reached by taxi. The only destinations you can fly to are Urumqi and Yining.The airport only operates 5 months in each year and close during winter.

By train

Overnight trains arrive from Urumqi via Kuytun and Beitun. Allow 9 to 10 hours. Pickup a bus from the Aletai station to town 5RMB.

By bus

The bus station is at Tuanjie Road.

• Burqin — takes about 1.5–2 hours, a bus every hour, costs ¥21
• Urumqi — takes about 12 hours, sleeper ¥160-170
• Yining — takes about 2 days

In place of buses or taxis, .

By bus

Aletai buses cost ¥1 per person between any two stops within the town. Just put ¥1 in the container.

• 101 — from the bus station will to the city center, People's Square (人民广场) and near the PSB
• 1 — from the bus station to city center

Regional buses from Aletai

The following services were available from the bus station on Tuanjie Road (200m north of Yinshui Rd corner) as 5-Oct-2019. May change seasonally. Alternative spellings possible

Destination	Direction	Distance	Cost	Departure Times
Burqin	West	107km	¥24	10:00 and every hour until 19:00
Beitun	Sth West	60km	12¥	On demand as buses fill. Rail service.
Fuhai	Sth West	98km	23¥	On demand as buses fill for Beitun
Fuyun	Sth East	230km	60¥	10:00 and every hour until 17:00
Ginggil/Qinggil	Sth East	314km	74¥	10:00, 12:00, 16:00
Kaba/Habahe	Nth West	161km	36¥	11:00 via Burqin
Jeminay	West	196km	57¥	10:00, 11:00, 15:00, 16:00

• Birch Forest ParkPrime bird-watching spot as well as amply endowed with wildflowers.

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.

All kinds of chirstals.

Lamb shishkebab, in local dialect is called Kebab, and in Chinese is called Yangrouchuer. Beshbarmak, the traditional dish of the Kazakhs is a mixture of boiled lamb, potatoes, carrots and noodles usually eaten with the hands.

• Original Kazak yoghurt, in Kazak is called airan. In Chinese it is Suannai.

• Aletai Diqu Hotel

  phone: +86 906 2122188
  Local three star hotel, probably the best you can find, no one speak English there, the hotel restaurant is also decent.

• Bus Station G.HClean rooms and hot water.

• Golden Bridge Hotel

  phone: +86 906 2127566
  Local three star hotel, no one speak English.

• Postal HotelTwo star hotel. They do not speak English.

Visas

• PSB - visa extensionsCan give you just 7-10 days and will probably send you to Urumqi. Nobody speaks English.

• Hanas National Nature Reserve — approximately four hours away by bus