Aletai (阿勒泰; Ālètài; also known as Altay) is a city in Xinjiang Province of China. Go 100 km or so in any direction except south and you hit a border: Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, Khazakstan to the west.
The Aletai City airport (AAT) is 17 km from the town center and can be reached by taxi. The only destinations you can fly to are Urumqi and Yining.The airport only operates 5 months in each year and close during winter.
Overnight trains arrive from Urumqi via Kuytun and Beitun. Allow 9 to 10 hours. Pickup a bus from the Aletai station to town 5RMB.
The bus station is at Tuanjie Road.
In place of buses or taxis, .
Aletai buses cost ¥1 per person between any two stops within the town. Just put ¥1 in the container.
The following services were available from the bus station on Tuanjie Road (200m north of Yinshui Rd corner) as 5-Oct-2019. May change seasonally. Alternative spellings possible
| Destination | Direction | Distance | Cost | Departure Times |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burqin | West | 107km | ¥24 | 10:00 and every hour until 19:00 |
| Beitun | Sth West | 60km | 12¥ | On demand as buses fill. Rail service. |
| Fuhai | Sth West | 98km | 23¥ | On demand as buses fill for Beitun |
| Fuyun | Sth East | 230km | 60¥ | 10:00 and every hour until 17:00 |
| Ginggil/Qinggil | Sth East | 314km | 74¥ | 10:00, 12:00, 16:00 |
| Kaba/Habahe | Nth West | 161km | 36¥ | 11:00 via Burqin |
| Jeminay | West | 196km | 57¥ | 10:00, 11:00, 15:00, 16:00 |
Difficult to find anything to do here, it takes 1 hour to walk through the town, though doing some shopping is not a bad idea.
All kinds of chirstals.
Lamb shishkebab, in local dialect is called Kebab, and in Chinese is called Yangrouchuer. Beshbarmak, the traditional dish of the Kazakhs is a mixture of boiled lamb, potatoes, carrots and noodles usually eaten with the hands.
2nd-order administrative division
Primary administrative division