Ejina Populus Euphratica Tourist Area

Ejina Populus Euphratica Tourist Area boasts China's exceptionally enchanting fall colors and is a great destination for enjoying fall. It is home to a populus euphratica forest whose trees live for three thousand years, stand for three thousand years after death, and remain undecayed for three thousand years after falling. The area gained fame from the forest duel between Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi in Zhang Yimou's "Hero," and today it continues to draw countless people from all over the country who come to see it for themselves.

From the First Bridge to the Eighth Bridge, each spot has its own enchanting scenery. Among them, the Fourth Bridge is very popular—it was an outdoor filming location for the movie "Hero," and here you can admire the magnificence of "the sunset scattering its lingering glow, the desert poplars dyed in golden fall." Whether it is the hazy distant mountains at sunrise, the silent flat sands, and the reeds edged in gold, or the sunset scene where "the falling clouds fly together with the lone duck, and the autumn waters merge with the vast sky in one color"—Juyan Lake always has an otherworldly ethereal air and a transcendent clarity that leave people marveling endlessly.

If you come to Ejina, please do not miss the desert and Gobi scenery. Every year, the Populus euphratica festival is held here. During the festival, you can admire the brilliant and dazzling golden Populus euphratica forest and the endless vast desert.

The populus euphratica interprets beauty with its life. The best season is from late September to mid-October each year, lasting only about twenty days. In particular, the National Day Golden Week is when the populus euphratica's colors are especially golden and brilliant.