DAY 02： URUMUQI TO DUSHANZI

Photography Highlights: S101ROAD,  ANJIHAI SENSET & BLUE HOUR

The S101 Defense Highway in Xinjiang is a hidden gem for photographers, offering a diverse and captivating landscape that unfolds with every mile traveled.

Drive about  2 hour to S101 Defense Highway.

S101 Defense Highway

The S101 Defense Highway also takes you through areas of unique geological formations. Strange rock pillars, eroded canyons, and multicolored mineral deposits showcase the forces of nature over time. These natural wonders offer photographers the chance to capture rare and extraordinary images.

S101 Defense Highway, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

S101 Defense Highway, Connan 5D IV, 24-105mm F4

Xinjiang

Whether it's the panoramic views of the landscape or the intimate details of the flora and fauna along the way, the S101 Defense Highway in Xinjiang is a photographer's paradise that promises a collection of images that tell the story of a wild and beautiful journey.

PANO S101 Defense Highway, Connan 5D IV, 24-105mm F4

Xinjiang

S101 Defense Highway, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

Anjihai Grand Canyon

The Anjihai Grand Canyon in Xinjiang is a captivating destination that offers photographers an unparalleled visual experience.

Anjihai Grand Canyon Sunset, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

This natural wonder is a masterpiece of geological forces. The formation of the Anjihai Grand Canyon is attributed to the combined effects of river erosion, tectonic movements, and the exposure of various rock layers over millions of years. The powerful Anjihai River has continuously carved through the land, gradually deepening and widening the canyon. The uplift and movement of the earth's crust have also contributed to the shaping of the canyon's dramatic topography.

DAY 3:  DUSHANZI TO ROAD DUKU TO NALATI

Photography Highlights: Road Duku

The Duku Highway in Xinjiang is a captivating canvas that unfolds before the eyes of every photographer seeking to capture the essence of raw, untouched beauty.

PANO Duku Highway, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4

Xinjiang

This extraordinary road snakes through a landscape that seems to have been crafted by the hands of nature itself. Towering mountains rise majestically on either side, their peaks capped with eternal snow that glistens under the intense sunlight. The contrast between the white snow and the deep blue sky is a sight that begs to be immortalized through the lens.

PANO Duku Highway, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

The Duku Highway is not just a road; it's a journey of discovery, a source of inspiration, and a photographer's paradise waiting to be explored and captured in all its glory.

PANO Duku Highway, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

DAY 4： NALATI TO BAYINBULUKE TO NALATI 

Photography Highlights: Bayinbuluke Glasslands Sunset

Bayinbuluke (巴音布鲁克) is located in the northwest of China, on the southern slopes of the central Tianshan Mountains. It belongs to the Bayinbuluke Mongolian Autonomous County and is the largest high-altitude wetland ecosystem in Xinjiang. As part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor," it is renowned for its breathtaking natural landscapes, unique ethnic culture, and rare plateau ecology, often hailed as a "fairyland on earth."

Jinkeng Terrces Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4

Xinjiang

Nine-Bend Eighteen-Turn (九曲十八弯) 

   - The Kaidu River meanders here, forming the "Most Beautiful Curve on Earth." At sunrise, mist and golden light reflect on the river’s surface. 

Pano Longji Rice Terrces, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

 Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon 

   - Red Yadan landforms contrast with snow-capped peaks and forests. The canyon’s deep, quiet valleys feature natural rock carvings. 

 Bayinbuluke Grassland 

   - China’s second-largest grassland, lush with vegetation. Wildflowers bloom in spring, turning golden in autumn, framed by distant snow-capped mountains. 

Pano Longji Rice Terrces, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Xinjiang

Bayinbuluke combines natural wonders, cultural richness, and ecological marvels, offering unforgettable experiences for photographers, adventurers, and cultural enthusiasts alike.

DAY 5： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: LIRIVER  SUNRISE, LOCAL LIFE SHOOTING, SUNSET WITH FISHERMAN 

Sunset Landscape Cuiping Hill

There is a nice shooting spot in the mountaintop with well good steps to climb, it will be 20--35 to hillup depending on how fast you are (the fastest is 10 mins). The sun lights with the fields and the two river（tortoise river）meeting together.

Pano Cuiping Hilltop Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Cuiping Hilltop Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

The Magnificent landscape view in the distance. we will arrival the hilltop as early as we can, so the the shooting platform is small and more and more local photographer to visiting. untill 07:30--08:00 pm down hill the mountain cuase after sunset the blue hour especially therie is cumulus clouds form light around the village and the tortoise river.

Cuiping Hilltop Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Down hill and drive for 45 mins to Yangshuo.
Check in hotel

DAY 5： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: LIRIVER  SUNRISE, LOCAL LIFE SHOOTING, SUNSET WITH FISHERMAN 

Wake up early and leave the hotel at 04:00 am to capture the sunrise on the beartiful romote Liriver in Xingping.  Drive for 45 mins to the riverside and to capture the blue hour on the Liriver. 

Liriver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

It is said that Guilin is the most beautiful landscape scenery in the world. "Xingping's Karst mountain is like a painting, and water is clear like a crystal.  " The best part of Guilin Landscape Scenery is in Xingping and Yangshuo. Nature is amazing,  is beautiful, poetic and picturesque, just like stepping into a paradise.


Cormorant Fishing, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping


Clean the Walking Path, Connan 5D IV, 50 mm F2.8
Xingping

Visit a local farmers family for portrait and to see the local house, to shooting the daily life.

Unique local 100 years house, the loclas still leave inside for6 people and 3 generations, the chicken free running everywhere near the house, the living room and the kitche are wonderful shooting highlights.

Feeding Chichen in the front yard, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Reading 0ld Book in the living room, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Sunset with cormorant fishing
Drive 1 hour to the Xingping Liriverside to capture the sunset with the cormorant fishing . the beartiful landscape riverside and  the fishman wear the local raincoat with the cormorants, the lamp light. Wa, there is a photogenic highlights around the blue hour a hundreds of hundres photo you will shooting.

Liriver Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Liriver Blue Hour with fishman, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Nature posture of lighting on his bamboo raft, casting net, cormorant fishing. When nightfall, you can see the local fisherman come and punting on Li river, light up a fire lamp like a bright star floating on the water, with counter of peaks as backdrop.

Pano Liriver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Cormorant fishing is unique in China, and is a popular attraction for the photographer in Xingping with landscaple sunset on the Lirier.


Casting Net , Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Casting Net, DJI Air2S F2.
Xingping

Blue Hour with fishman , Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Return to Hotel
Drive 45 mins to the hotel and rest the evening. Good sleep for tomorrow morning.

DAY 6： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: XIANGGONG HILL  SUNRISE, OLD TOWN VISITING, LIRIVER SUNSET 

Leave the hotel at 03:30 am, drive 45 mins arrival the Xianggong hill before 04:30 am, cuase the gate open at 04:30 am, and a lot of photographers and tourists will be coming.  Climbed the mountain with well steps to shoot the sunrise in the hilltop of Xianggong hill(there are 500 steps in Xianggong hill, and it takes about 10-15 minutes to climb, and the fastest speed is 7 minutes).Pano Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Xianggong Hill 
There are five viewing platforms of different heights on the top of the mountain. Each floor is two or three meters apart, which can give us a better shooting angle. Xianggong hill sunrise is the most beautiful sunrise in Guilin. Looking at the mountains in the distance, I have a special sense of natural beauty. 

Different height photography platforms, of course, the highest one is the best. I like the corner on the left of each floor. Cause I like to shoot the panorama of Xianggong hill.

Pano Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Shooting a sunrise will be one of the most imporant things for the photographers have to do during travels. Every photographer who comes to Yangshuo must not miss a beautiful and spectacular sunrise at Xianggong mountain on the side of Lijiang River. 

Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

The sea of clouds, sunrise, sun rays, and golden clouds here attract numerous photographers and enthusiasts, even the tourist.

Pano Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Xianggong Hill Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8
Yangshuo

Return to Hotel for breakfast

Drive for 1 hour, then walk for 20 minutes in the Daxu old town and knock at the door in the local family if we have good luck and the locals will open the door and welcome us and show how beartiful home there have and nice for portrait.

The locals walk on the street, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Daxu Old Town

Dry Peanuts, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Daxu Old Town

Reading Old News Peaper, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Daxu Old Town

Dive 1.5 hours to the riverside to capture the sunet and the blue hour. and return the hotel about 1 hour.

Liriver Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8
Xingping

Pano Liriver Sunset, DJI Air2S F2.
Xingping

Liriver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8
Xingping

DAY 7： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: XLIRIVER SUNRISE WITH CORMORANT FISHING

Drive 1 hour, walk 15 mins through the path and the fields to capture the blue hour on the remote photography highlights in the early morning.


LirIver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Fishman, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

It is a romote photography highlights, more quiet, no tourise, less photographer even the locals and the most beautifull place for shooting.


Pano Liriver Sunrise with fishman, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

To capture local fisherman paddle along the Li River with the cormorants.  Not to mention the stunning karst rock formations that surround you in 360 degrees for as far as the eye can see.  Calling Yangshuo“scenic” would be a bit of an understatement: its bona fide jaw-dropping.   It’s the kind of place you get to and then immediately fall in love.  


Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Ahead to the airport or the railway station for the next city.