Red Mountain [Wulumuqi]

The Red Mountain is located in the Red Mountain Park of Urumchi, Xinjiang. The Red Mountain is famous because of its henna color.

The mountain is 1.5 kilometers long and the width is about 1 kilometer, assuming the trend from east to west. The peak elevation is 910 meters and the relatively height is about 400 meters. Its purple-red sand-stone for is almost 250 million years apart from now and is the deposit formation under the natural mainland environment.

Since Xinjiang is a peaceful liberation, the people have paid huge manpower in order to restore the Red Mountain scenic area and they planted trees on the 910 meters elevation of red mountains summits, causing the approximately 250 million years ago formation of purple and red sand-stone to put on a new layer of green clothing. It started from 1985; a dragon pagoda core massive park was set up in the more than 200 years of historical town. This is the present Red Mountain Park.

There are the mountain asphalt road, the mountaineering stair, the aerial cable car, the pavilion, the view building, the God palace, the artificial waterfall, the Lin Zexu sculpture and the temple and so on. If you ascend the mountain to get a broader view, the Urumqi scenery is all covered. It is the best place to watch this town scenery.