Yili Winter Ski Guide: Nalati, Kalajun Backcountry & Hot-Spring Powder
Yili’s 2025-26 winter ski season: Nalati and Kalajun powder, Huocheng Fushou Mountain, blue-ice lakes, and hot-spring nights. Plan your winter trip here.
Yili’s 2025-26 winter ski season: Nalati and Kalajun powder, Huocheng Fushou Mountain, blue-ice lakes, and hot-spring nights. Plan your winter trip here.
Plan a Fuhai winter trip around Ulungur Lake’s ice-fishing festival and Altay’s ski resorts. Get dates, activities, transport, food, and where to stay.
Skiing in Tacheng, Xinjiang: Qianquan and 4S-rated Yemili ski resorts, Emin County snow parks, Kazakhstan border travel, season dates and beginner options.
Skiing in Karamay, Xinjiang: Bingfeng and Tianshan resorts at Dushanzi, Longshan, hot springs, Jinlong Lake ice park, plus season, costs and access tips.
Ulungur Lake winter fishing in Fuhai, Altay: the waking-the-nets rite, kilometre-long seine hauls, visitor ice fishing and how to pair it with skiing.
Zhaosu in Ili is Xinjiang’s Tianshan Snow Capital: the 2S county ski resort, Hantengri backcountry park, heavenly-horse snow shows and how to get there.
Ski Nordic at Wenquan Cross-Country Ski Resort, Xinjiang Bortala: the region’s only FIS-certified track, 11 km of groomed loops, hot springs, and Sayram Lake.
Plan a winter side trip to Sayram Lake from your Xinjiang ski holiday: blue ice, frozen bubbles, photo spots, tickets, safety and hot springs nearby.
Koktokay (Keketuohai) International Ski Resort in Fuyun, Xinjiang: 1,200 m vertical, dry Altai powder, a 200-day season, how to get there and when to go.
Visit the Altay Museum of the Origin of Human Skiing in Xinjiang: free entry, opening hours, Dundebulake rock art, fur skis and how to fit it into a ski day.