Ghost city Geopark Administrative Office
【Ghost City Urho】
Urho, also called" ghost city", is located in Urho district of Karamay city, 90km northeast from Karamay city, 5km east from Urho village.(310km east from National road 217). The average evelation is 380m high, from northwest to southeast is abt 5km, the width is abt 3km and the area is abt 15km2. The city is formed of a series of northwest-southeast independant platforms. These platforms are 10-50m high and is constructed by Tugulu group from the Cretaceous Period.

According to investigation, abt 70 million to 100 million years ago is Urho Cretaceous period.By then, here is a huge lake aroud where are thriving plants. In the lake, there lives Urho Stegosaurus,Plesiosaurus,Junggar pterosaur and other ancient animals. It's a heaven for aquatic animals.After 2 mass crust rise-fall change, the lake disappeared and became vast desert with sandstone and argillite. Because located in far inland, there isn't much rain here and the weather is very dry, this landform is kept quiet well. It is called "Gobi Platform" in geology. The skeletons of dinosaurs, fossil oil, and nature asphalt is buried deep into the complicated rock stratum.
The city is located in wind gap and it's windy here all year long. The little and big wind will blow up to 300 times a year, about 86.5% of 365 days. Wind above 7-8 level is more than 40 times every year.(especially in April to August, the maximum wind is up to 10-12 level). Each time the wind blows, sand and stones will fly with murky sky above and weird dark shadows everywhere. The wind circles in this city sound like ghosts crying or wolves howling,giving people creeps. If the moonlight is faint, with everything desolated, the situation will be creepier, becoming a "horrible world". The locals call this city "Ghost City".

Nature's uncanny workmanship can form top beauty spot Guilin, it can also created Yadan landform labelled "ghost".

At present it's sunny and the city is quiet for now.

"Dare devil" Mr. Zhao leaft his handsome figure to this ghost city.

These groups of huge sculptures bearing great changes thousands and thousands of years from the ancient till now . Maybe another thousands and thousands years from now, these stone sculptures will be destroyed by the wind and sand here, too.

No matter how beautiful you were, no one and nothing can withstand time change. And which single grain of sand hasn't existed since millions of years ago? We human are lucky, standing above the nature's gift, living colorfully. We give our deepest thanks to mother nature, as children of mother Earth, we continuing on with our life journey, with the next section of our riding journey

Leaving ghost city, we are back to lively man's world.






From Urho to Bulgin, deserts every where.

The high way in Sinkiang is so Geiliable, the road condition is good and the view is fabulous.
If our friends come here and have a rally event, it must be awesome!

Rushing towards Bulgin!
Preview: Kanas--pure land in man's world, He Mu--God' backyard garden