Keketuohai UNESCO Global Geopark

Chinese Name: 可可托海国家地质公园 （Keke Tuo Hai Guo Jia Di Zhi Gong Yuan）
Location: Keketuohai Town, Fuyun County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang.
Ticket: Entrance ticket CNY90.00, sightseeing bus CNY26.00
Estimated tour time: 2-4 hours
Recommended tome to visit：May to Sep
Nearby attractions: Wucaitan Scenic Area, Hemu Village, Kanas Lake, etc.

In the northeast edge of the Junggar Basin, Altay mountains of teh eastern end of  the south, the source of the Irtysh River, there is a since the founding of the country was classified as highly confidential area-Keketuohai. The area is known as China’s Yosemite.

Inside the park, visitors will be able to enjoy the breathtaking views that include the Irtysh Grand Canyon, a huge mine crater, lakes, mountains, a waterfall, fossils and rivers.

The beautiful and rich Keketuohai nurtures diligent, kind, brave and hospitable Kazak nationality. Kazakh nationality has being living a nomadic life since ancient times. They engage in raising livestock for generations and live where there is water and grass, known as the "the Nationality on Horseback". 

In Keketuohai, the distinctive cultural and sports activities, including Horse shows, Aken playing and singing, Buzkashi (goat grabbing) and Girls chasing, constitute the main melody of traditional culture.So to speak, it is the miraculous and mild mountains and rivers that help the Keketuohai Geopark to own differential freshness and intelligence; while it is also the wildness and legend of Kazakhs' life that leave a lot of cultural landscape for the Keketuohai Geopark. 

● Highlights of Keketuohai 

Cocoa Sullivan Lake

Cocoa is located in Sullivan County Fuyun. It’s one of the main resort Keketuohai National Geological park, 23km from Fuyun County. Coco Sullivan lake, also known as Wild Duck Lake, the lake area is around 2677 acres, with an depth of 100 meters. the lake has roots interleaved reed floating islands formed by a plurality size of abundant aquatic plants.

Coco Sullivan blue lake clarification, rich aquatic flora and fauna, Plenty of aquatic plants and more than 20 floating islands in the lake attract thousands of wild ducks, moorhens and swan gooses every year. There is also a large grassland to the south of the lake which supports herds of cattle and sheep.Distant expanse of fertile grassland, cattle and sheep flocks, feeding the lake relaxing, quite comfort. Clouds, mountains and beautiful prosperous Cocoa Sullivan, and draw up a strong Italian danmo of Chinese landscape painting, with one “Prairie flooding”, the stunning views, is seek spring outing, fishing scenery, a great place for photography stetch.

The 3rd Pit

There are rich geological relic resources in the Geopark. The granite landform at the source of the Irtysh River is unique, and the mountains are mainly in such forms as campanulate, quaquaversal and pyramidal,with the exposed bedrock and the extremely high cliff. For the surface form of the mountain, the top is round and smooth, and the side face is steep.

Keketuohai was once a celebrated mining area in China, and rare metals were mined there for more than half a century.
World-class granitic pegm atite deposits,especially i the veins of dozens of the most typical and representative three vein. There are 80kinds of mineral symbiosis, mainly lithium, beryllium, niobium, tantalum, cesium and other rare metals, including beryllium reserves ranking first in the world, this unique dikes for domestic and foreign rare. Precious stones such as emerald, aquam arine and emerald, amethyst, garnets, etc.

Produced in the granitic pegm atite. Whether the completeness of geochemical evolution of its pegmatite, or the width and abundance of its rare metal mineralization, or the magnificent and unique tectonic formation characteristics, etc. is rare throughout the world, the ore vein is also the basis and realistic reflection for the generation of Modern Mineral Crystallography and Granite Pegmatite Metallogeny Theory. The typical graph of the ore vein has been included in the textbook, paper and monograph of many countries.

Irtysh Grand Canyon

As the major scenery of Keketuohai Scenic Spot, the Irtysh Grand Canyon is an amazingly beautiful wonderland properly decorated with mountains, waters, trees, stones, and human beings which together bring tourists there a fantastic experience. Cocoa Sullivan Lake, commonly known as Wild Duck Lake, abounds in aquatic plants with over 20 floating islands of reeds. In summer and autumn, thousands of ducks, crane and red geese gather and live here, making the lake a good place for sightseeing tours on cruise ships and fishing in leisure tours, photographing and camping.

Ilaymu Lake

Ilaymu Lake is the largest barrier lake rich in large earthquake geological fault zones, which looks like a huge "8" from above. In the center of the lake are two mountains from east to west, leaving a rather narrow stream behind which seems like Three Gorges of Yangtze River when one looks from near and like an enormous aquamarine from high and afar. With the title of "Geology Museum", Kalaxianger Earthquake Fault Zone is now the most spectacular and most well-preserved earthquake site in the world. In the eyes of geological experts, it’s also a geological shrine.