ChinaScape - Xinjiang

Flaming Mountains

North of Turpan in eastern Xinjiang, you will come across the Flaming Mountains. These sandstone mountains are legendary from Journey to the West, the story of the buddhist monk, Xuan Zang, and his pilgrimmage to India. In the story, these mountains as described as walls of flames, hence the name. The busdriver told us on a given day, it is possible to boil an egg from the heat of the mountain.




				North of Turpan in eastern Xinjiang, you will come across the Flaming Mountains. These sandstone mountains are legendary from Journey to the West, the story of the buddhist monk, Xuan Zang, and his pilgrimmage to India. In the story, these mountains as described as walls of flames, hence the name. The busdriver told us on a given day, it is possible to boil an egg from the heat of the mountain.