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Lake in Xinjiang, China
Photo: lwtt93 from Shanghai, China, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The lake is by the G30 expressway and the old G312 national highway that connects Urumqi with Khorgos border crossing with Kazakhstan.
Read in the guideIf you don't have your own car there is a bus (July, 2018) that leaves from the entrance gate every half hour until 6pm Beijing time.
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