Hanas National Nature Reserve

Understand

Kanas is a nature reserve in the Altay mountains of northern Xinjiang famed for its alpine scenery Kanas lake. Tickets are 240 yuan per person good for two days. The price is made up of 150 yuan of entrance fee and 90 yuan of unlimited bus ride within the park. Among activities worth pursuing in the park are the boat ride for a fee on Kanas lake and a trip up Guānyú Tái, a mountain that offers spectacular views of the lake and surrounding mountains and scandalously overpriced food.

Landscape

Kanas Lake 48.82N 87.04E, about 1,325m ASL lies in the southern Altay mountains near to the Chinese border with Mongolia and Russia. To the north of the park is Friendship Peak 4,374 m. ASL, marking the boundary with Kazakhstan and Russia.