The Tengri-Tagh Mountains run 1,056 miles from east to west and 186 miles at the widest from north to south, dividing Xinjiang into the north with the Junggar Basin and the south with the Tarim Basin. It is the main source of water for the region with its vast area of glaciers. The Tengri-Tagh Mountains also hold rich mineral reserves of coal, iron, etc. They are baked with wheat-flour dough with salt and without soda.
Baked nan has a golden crust, is relatively dry, but crispy and tasty.
A Farmer's Market in Akhsu . The city was planned on a cliff without a city wall as the cliff itself was its best protection. The city was abandoned in the middle of the 15th century. It is a witness of almost two thousand years of Turpan history. The Ili River has its source from the western part of the Tengri-Tagh Mountains, with the Ili River Valley surrounded by mountains on the north, east, south, and with the west opening onto a plain which is accessible to the moist current of the Atlantic, giving it an ideal climate.