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Grape Valley is at once an agricultural landscape, lived-in community and visitor area. Channels, trellises, drying houses and homes should be read together; public passage does not grant access to every vineyard or doorway.

Turpan: respecting water, grape production and residents in oasis lanes

Grape Valley is at once an agricultural landscape, lived-in community and visitor area. Channels, trellises, drying houses and homes should be read together; public passage does not grant access to every vineyard or doorway.

  • Recognise the setting in which culture actually occurs — Observe how shade, irrigation, ventilation and drying respond to arid heat, and how visitor infrastructure interweaves with everyday production.
  • Participate only where the setting clearly allows it — Join tastings, picking or activities only where the operator, price and permitted area are clear; follow organiser notices for festivals and performances.
  • Separate residents’ lives, ritual and performance — Do not pick grapes without permission, block residents or assume consent for portraits. Conserve water and take litter away.

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Turpan: respecting water, grape production and residents in oasis lanes

Region: Xinjiang

Places to visit

  • Grape Valley Scenic Area, Turpan — Grape Valley Scenic Area in Turpan is a national 5A attraction extending through an oasis gorge below the Flaming Mountains. Vine…
  • Turpan Museum — Turpan Museum is a national 4A attraction linking basin archaeology, Silk Road exchange and natural history through regional hist…
  • Flaming Mountains Scenic Area — Flaming Mountains Scenic Area in Turpan was listed as a national 4A attraction in a 2012 government work report and a 2022 local …
  • Shanshan Kumtag Desert Scenic Area — Shanshan Kumtag Desert Scenic Area is a national 4A attraction on the town’s southern edge, where dunes almost directly meet the …
  • Site of Qocho City — The Site of Qocho City south of the Flaming Mountains is a national 4A attraction, one of China's first nationally protected site…
  • Jiaohe Ruins — Jiaohe occupies a leaf-shaped earthen plateau about thirty metres above two valleys on the northern edge of the Turpan Basin. Roa…
  • Astana Ancient Tombs — Astana Ancient Tombs lie on the desert plain southeast of Turpan. Together with the Karakhoja cemetery, they preserve burials of …
  • Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves — Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves occupy a red cliff and terrace in the Mutou Valley gorge of the Flaming Mountains, Gaochang Distri…

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