A thousand-year-old village on the edge of the desert - Huaxia Caimen Village.

Huaxia Caimen Village is a small village on the edge of the Kumtag Desert, famous for its colorful courtyard doors. 📍Address: Huaxia Caimen Village 🕙Opening hours: Anytime 💰Ticket price: Free 🚉Transportation: Rent a car or charter a car. Bus No. 6 goes directly to the village. ⏳Duration: 1 hour if you like taking photos of every door, 30 minutes if you just want to take a quick look. 👚Dress code: White clothes look great in photos, but don't wear anything too bright. 🗓Itinerary: A niche destination, you can visit it on your way to Turpan. ✅Huaxia Caimen Village: Take photos, and eat mulberries in May. ✅Kumtag Desert: No tickets required, and the scenery is great. There is a fork in the road on the left side of the main road in Huaxia Caimen Village with a sign for "Xiaohe Tribe." Follow the dirt road and you will see the desert. You can drive to the edge of the desert. Caimen Village is not a tourist attraction, just a village on the edge of the desert. The village is in its original state, with no tourism development, so there are no restaurants. It is said that the colorful doors first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The residents here painted various patterns on the gates of their courtyards. The gates are made of special wood, divided into four rows and sixteen grids, with patterns of landscapes, flowers, and plants painted in the grids. The colors are very bright and highly saturated, mostly using contrasting colors such as blue, red, yellow, orange, and green. The patterns are also rich and varied: some doors are painted with local grapes, some with mountains and lakes, some with bright roses, some with dancing youths, some with girls picking grapes, and some with woodcut relief elements. Some of these time-worn wooden doors have almost completely faded, leaving only mottled traces, but they are still beautiful! The whole road becomes more vibrant because of these colorful doors. On both sides of the road are thick mulberry trees that have been growing for hundreds of years. The colorful doors are hidden among the mulberry leaves, guarded on the edge of the desert over the years. ❤Recommended: The yogurt ice cream sold at roadside stalls in the county is super delicious, made from pure camel milk. A small box costs only CNY 3, and it tastes better than the century-old internet-famous store in Ili.