I traveled to silkroad in china from urumqi to yinning.
Urumuqi and Yinning are located in Xinjiang, north-western part of
china. It is just near the Kazakstan.
Being different from the imagination, Yinning and Urumqi are very full
of the grass, so it is really good to ride horse.
I strongly recommend that you guys travel to yinning. One of
surprising fact is that it is really hard to find foreigner there even
though natural environment in Xinjiang is amazing.
You can see the photos in my blog and my papree page.
http://papree.com/silkroad -> my papree page
http://irumbiz.blogspot.com -> my blog page
Have a nice trip!