The Ili River ancient name also arranges in order the water, the Ili Lishui, is relates northwest farmland the famous rivers.The ancient times fill the human; Lives and so on tokharia person, wusun person, Tujue people in this river basin, west the Tang Dynasty drafted the army and the Mongolian Genghis Khan's cavalry once cuts down by reason of the wooden header swims across the torrential river water.

Ili River originates west the Xinjiang Tianshan the section, within the boundaries of our country, the drainage area 570,000 square kilometers, its water volume occupies head of approximately the Xinjiang numerous river, the amount of runoff approximately composes the entire boundary rivers amount of runoff indeed 1/5, probably some 3/4 water volume flows out the border.

Accomodation:
Here has many star class hotels, the facility is complete, the environment is exquisite, the transportation is convenient, like the friendship guesthouse, the Red Flag guesthouse, shout force the good guesthouse and so on.
Ili governs the county various county seats also to have the facility good hotel, like observes the cloth to look up your county guesthouse, the Xinyuan county guesthouse, the Nilka County guesthouse, the huo ch'eng county guesthouse and so on.
Good food:
The tea with milk, picks food by hand, the noodle soup, the flavor steamed stuffed bun, accepts kind, the spicy pot and the black pudding, nang, mediates.Ili's diet has the rich national flavor.Place snack most places are liberate around the road passenger transportation center and on the Red Flag road good food city.