North the Turpan basin has the Bogda Mt, west has ka La Wu Cheng Mt, south has sense the lotta standard mountain, the southeast has the Coombe tower standard mountain, the basin total area is 50147 square kilometers, accounts for the Turpan area total area above 80%, in which is lower than the sea level the area is 4050 square kilometers,Turpan is the national elevation lowest basin.Aydingkol Lake, in basin intimate southerly place.

　　Aydingkol Lake, is located sense north the foothill of lotta Ge mountain. In ancient times the writer literati called it sense the Luo river huan.But imagination rich Uygur national minority people, then calls it AiDing Kuller, means moonlight lake,Because its shape resembles the moon, therefore.Aydingkol Lake is the Chinese lowest place, the elevation - 155 meters, is only inferior to the Jordanian dead sea (- 391 meters) world second lowly.

      It has a long history going back about 250 million years. Ten thousand years ago it was a freshwater lake and was 1,000 times larger than its current size. Natural forces affected its elevation and once it became land locked so mineral deposits began to accumulate. Today, the lake is comprised of three parts: the outer circle is an alluvial plane. The inner part is salt marsh while at its center the lake is pure white and glittering salt rime. Neither birds nor fish inhabit its hostile environs, but one may come across gnats and hares from time to time. Occasionally, mirages are created by the refraction of the sun light.

The Aydingkol Lake climate extreme is arid, landscape extreme bleak, the surface salt shell growth was unique, constituted the magnificent primitive picture which has not opened up wasteland, thus had the special attraction to the tourist.

Admission ticket: 5 Yuan

Travel tips: The self-service tourist please note, the lake week multi-salt flats, the alkali and the sand dune, the path is difficult to walk, best rents the all-terrain vehicle to go to.

Accommodation:
    Everywhere is the good hotel, internal bedding also enough protection against the cold, if therefore the sleeping bag said is for the protection against the cold might as well said is and saves the fund for the health. Where arrives to rest in where is casually my traveling attitude. Looks for one enough cheap also the enough security place stays, pulls out own sleeping bag, pulls open the zipper, worms one's way into, rests, simply does not need to care about the inn the bedding whether has the foot fetid odor, after also does not need the fear to get the home to be able to bring back to a nest flea to come back. But saves the fund is not absolutely the small number.
Transportation:
    The self-service tourist please note, the lake week multi-salt flats, the alkali and the sand dune, the path is difficult to walk, best rents the all-terrain vehicle to go.