Korla Silk Road Tourism Town

The total length of the Korla Silk Road Tourism Town Pedestrian Street is 380 meters, and its width is 79 meters. It is a comprehensive pedestrian street integrating hotels, tourist shopping, specialty restaurants, night markets, Bazhou Specialty Product Hall, and Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall.

Highlights of Korla Silk Road Tourism Town

Characteristic Architecture

The facade of the buildings in the town adopts the style of podium buildings with Western Regions characteristics. The exterior walls are covered with cultural stone bricks with colorful patterns, reflecting the Xinjiang style. Static sculptures, reliefs, ground carvings and other cultural artworks in the town tell the stories of the ancient Silk Road, adding to the town's unique historical and cultural heritage.

Ancient Silk Road Commercial Street

Ethnic Handicrafts

The street is designed in a retro style. The building facades are full of Western Regions characteristics and are clad with cultural stone bricks, reflecting the rich southern Xinjiang style. Walking through it, it seems as if you have traveled back to the prosperous markets of the ancient Silk Road. There are many shops on both sides of the street, selling various special products, including exquisite handicrafts, commemorative tourist souvenirs, colorful ethnic costumes, and high-quality Hotan jade.

Food Street

Here, there are many authentic Xinjiang delicacies, and it is a great place for people to taste delicious food. You can enjoy roasted whole lamb, hand-grasped rice, lamb skewers, naan pit meat and other special Xinjiang dishes, all of which are very delicious. When the night market opens in summer, the variety of food becomes more abundant and diverse, with various special snacks and desserts available to satisfy your taste buds.

Educational Value

Through retro-style buildings, designs with Western Regions characteristics and the restoration of commercial trade scenes, the town materializes the abstract history of the Silk Road. Visitors can intuitively perceive the geographical span of ancient East-West trade routes, the circulation logic of traded commodities, and the historical background of the convergence of different civilizations here, thus understanding the geographical and strategic significance of Korla as an important node on the Silk Road.

Activities to do at Korla Silk Road Tourism Town

Cultural experience: Participate in the making of traditional handicrafts in the Ancient Silk Road Commercial Street, such as weaving ethnic characteristic items, and experience the skills of ethnic minorities like the Uygur people.

Leisure and entertainment: There is a children's play area in the town, equipped with slides, swings and other facilities, which is suitable for parent-child activities.