Visit the lavender fields in Yili from June to August, here's your ultimate guide
🌈Xinjiang is beautiful all year round, but from June to August, the lavender is in full bloom, covering the hills and fields with a sea of purple flowers🌸, exuding a romantic vibe💜. Walking among them, the fragrance of lavender is so overwhelming that it makes one forget all worries, as if stepping into a fairy tale world🕌, or entering a scene from a movie🎆.
🌸Blooming seasons:
The first season: mid to late June, with harvest at the end of June.
The second season: from July to mid-August, with harvest at the end of August.
📍Huocheng Jieyou Princess Lavender Farm
Yili is one of the three major lavender planting bases in the world, located at the same latitude 43 degrees north as Provence. The lavender at the farm is planted along the hillside, capturing the undulating feel of Provence.
✅️Lucaogou Town, Huocheng County, Yili State: 35 RMB/person, sightseeing car 20 RMB/person
📍Huanghuang Village Lavender River
The back hills and valleys of Huanghuang Village are planted with lots of lavender, resembling a winding river. There are white wildflowers on the hillside, green wheat seedlings by the road, and a café with Southern French country style, the Huanghuang Café.
✅️Sarbulak Town, Huocheng County, Yili State: free, 10 RMB/person for entering the fields to take photos
📍Yili Tianshan Flower Sea Scenic Area
Located in the core area of the Yili River Valley, the scenic area covers an area of 42,000 mu, with 22,000 mu of lavender, a true sea of flowers with a broad view.
✅️Yining County, Yili State, G218 (Yi-Ruo Line): 35 RMB/person
📍Yiparhan Lavender Sightseeing Garden
The park features multiple landscape designs: a white piano, European-style windmill, purple pavilion, white clock arch, and you can also see the processing line of lavender products.
✅️Cultural Road, Yining County, Yili State: 35 RMB/person
⚠️ Tips:
1⃣Be sure to apply sunscreen! Protect your face, body, and even your fingers and toes.
2⃣Choose the best time to visit. Locals recommend the morning or evening when it's not too hot and less crowded, perfect for taking photos.
🕗Morning: 08:30-10:00
🕣Evening: 19:00-21:00
3⃣For photo shoots📸 in the lavender fields, it's suggested that women wear French-style white or light-colored dresses💃, wear a straw hat👒, and carry a vintage bag👜. The overall attire contrasts with the purple, highlighting the subject. You can take great photos without any filters, and your album will be filled with beautiful pictures😘
4⃣There are many bees🐝 (which don't sting) and small lizards🐛 in the fields, so those who are timid should be mentally prepared.
5⃣The flower language of lavender is 'waiting for love'👩❤👨. If you're single, remember to embrace the fields heartily, accept the blessings of lavender, and you will surely harvest sweet love!
Every year in 6-7, the lavender season in the Yili Valley, on the way from Sailimu Lake to Yining, you can pass through the lavender planting place here. The lavender into a purple ocean, and you can smell the fragrance when you get off the bus, and the fragrance of flowers is very calm and good. If you take pictures, time and weather are very important, but it is still recommended to punch a card after passing by. The surrounding area of lavender can also be used as a souvenir.
The Ili Valley is located in the northern foothills of Tianshan Mountain, which is very similar to the geographical location, climatic conditions and soil environment of Provence, France, the world famous grassland originator of clothes drying. Huocheng has a lot of lavender fields. I saw the lavender in expectation. The purple I like is very beautiful. Unfortunately, the photo can't be photographed.
Huocheng lavender scenery is charming, beautiful scenery, purple romance, fun, ideal place for leisure and vacation, refreshing, lingering, cost-effective, good choice.
Don't go to Provence when you see lavender, Xinjiang Ilihuo City, is the hometown of lavender! Xinjiang in June is definitely a beautiful scenery everywhere, especially in Huocheng, located in the western part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the most lingering thing is the beautiful sea of flowers created by lavender. In the lavender season, Huocheng is picturesque, which is really unbelievable. There are three major lavender planting bases in the world, one is Provence in France, Hokkaido in Japan, and the other is Huocheng in Xinjiang, China.
Xinjiang|Because life is worth it, I frequently record 💙 Although I have not been to Provence, I don't think the photos taken are as good as there! Xinjiang is really a beautiful place, and the natural scenery of northern Xinjiang is too nostalgic. So that when you return to Chengdu, you can think of the flower fragrance of lavender through the photo.
Huocheng Lavender Scenic Area is located in Huocheng County, Ili Prefecture, Xinjiang. The Huocheng Lavender Provence area is at the same latitude as France, and the climatic conditions and soil conditions are similar. It is the largest lavender planting base in China and the hometown of lavender in China. Xinjiang lavender has been listed as one of the eight well-known varieties in the world.