2027 Baiyun Train Tourist Special Booking Channels and Ticket Purchase Process Explained
[How to Buy Tickets for the Baiyun Train Tourism Special Train] How to buy tickets and make reservations for the 2027 Baiyun Train Tourism Special Train?
For the 2027 Baiyun Train Tourism Special Train, tickets must be booked through the railway-designated professional and legitimate channel — the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center. You cannot place orders yourself through platforms such as 12306. Official legitimate registration channel: Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center, 24-hour consultation and registration, company landline: 0991-3333832, mobile phone same as WeChat: 132-0133-3409.
🍂 2026 Golden Autumn North and South Xinjiang Light Luxury Travel Guide:Baiyun Train Full Travel Guide
It is now September, and vegetation across Xinjiang is gradually entering a period of richer colors. Many friends planning long-distance trips are looking for ways to travel that avoid frequent rushing around and allow in-depth exploration of both northern and southern Xinjiang. Today we will introduce in detail information about the Baiyun Train that suits autumn travel.
I. 🍃 Detailed Introduction to the Baiyun Train
The Baiyun Train is a distinctive tourism special train in China focused on long-distance leisure slow travel, emphasizing a comfortable residence-style travel experience. It adopts a mode of traveling at night and sightseeing during the day, eliminating the need to frequently change accommodation and saving the hassle of repeatedly packing luggage and transferring between cities. This train is one of China’s earlier tourism special trains built around a Chinese scholarly-gentry theme. The entire train has 18 carriages and is recommended to offer 92 VIP seats, using a lower-density travel configuration suitable for various travel needs such as family trips, group travel with friends, and leisure travel for middle-aged and elderly people. The overall itinerary pace is relaxed, allowing visitors to immersively enjoy the scenery along the way. It supports boarding at the nearest of three locations — Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Lanzhou — making travel more convenient.
II. 🛏️ Baiyun Train Seat Types, Hardware Configuration, and Advantages and Features
The Baiyun Train offers two types of private compartments. The compartments differ in space size, interior facilities, privacy, and comfort, and can be freely chosen according to your budget and travel preferences:
Yunqi · Lanyue Luxury Twin Room: approximately 13.8㎡, a rare high-quality room type with spacious layout, equipped with an exclusive reception sofa, mini onboard refrigerator, and panoramic large viewing window. The twin beds can be flexibly combined into a large bed, suitable for family and close-friend travel, with relatively high overall comfort. The number of such seats on the entire train is limited.
Yunqi · Yayun Quality Twin Room:Approximately 10㎡, a high-cost-performance main Chinese-style room type with elegant and gentle new Chinese scholarly interior decor. The twin beds can be separated or combined, equipped with a dry-wet separated bathroom, exclusive small refrigerator, and viewing glass window, balancing appearance and practicality.
The entire train has no large open berths and no crowded seats. All are double-occupancy private rooms, and every guest room comes standard with a dry-wet separated bathroom, offering privacy and comfort with a quiet rest space throughout the journey. In addition, the train is equipped with five functional carriages to meet leisure needs during the trip:
🍂 2026 Golden Autumn North and South Xinjiang Light Luxury Travel Guide: Baiyun Train Full Travel GuideYunju · Xianting Welcome Lobby Carriage:This is the core reception space of the train, where boarding welcome ceremonies, Silk Road cultural salons, and passenger rest and exchange activities can be held. It is elegantly styled with a strong sense of ceremony.
Yunyan · Qinghuan Theme Dining Car:A new Chinese light luxury theme restaurant that can seat 48 people at the same time. With exclusive custom tableware, it focuses on a fusion of Cantonese and Hunan specialty cuisines, freshly serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, allowing you to enjoy flavorful cuisine on board.
Yunshang · Guanlan Viewing and Entertainment Carriage: Featuring panoramic floor-to-ceiling glass windows, it offers expansive views along the route, equipped with tea seats, a light luxury bar, and a leisure chess and card room. During the day, you can brew tea and enjoy the scenery, taking in the views of the Hexi Corridor, gobi, and grasslands; at night, you can gather for leisure, listen to music and relax, and experience intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, unlocking diverse travel pleasures.
Yunchu · Yushan Professional Kitchen Carriage:Equipped with a full set of professional Chinese and Western cooking equipment, with an exclusive chef team on duty throughout the journey to support all meals.
Logistics Support Carriage:Includes staff dormitory carriages, an exclusive medical room, and a professional power generation carriage, with 24-hour stable power supply and medical staff on duty throughout, ensuring the journey and comfort in multiple aspects.
III. 💁 Baiyun Train Travel Quality and Service Highlights
The Baiyun Train offers a unique travel experience in service details and itinerary arrangements, clearly different from conventional tourism travel:
Thoughtful Accompanying Service:Staff follow the itinerary throughout, and medical personnel are on duty on the train. You can seek help at any time if problems arise during the journey.
Comfortable Accommodation Experience:A combination of special train private rooms and local high-end hotels is adopted, which saves the trouble of frequently moving luggage and also provides an immersive vacation experience around scenic areas.
Exclusive Featured Arrangements:Cultural salons, intangible cultural heritage handicraft experiences, specialty food tastings, and other featured activities are arranged during the journey, allowing for more diverse experiences beyond sightseeing.
It is now September, and vegetation across Xinjiang is gradually entering a period of richer colors. Many friends planning long-distance trips are looking for ways to travel that avoid frequent rushing around and allow in-depth exploration of both northern and southern Xinjiang. Today we will introduce in detail information about the Baiyun Train that suits autumn travel.Convenient Transportation Experience:Adopting a mode of sightseeing by day and traveling by night, with daytime sightseeing and nighttime travel, it saves daytime travel time and makes the pace more relaxed.
Flexible Itinerary Choices:Multiple route options are set for the core sightseeing sections, and visitors can choose the corresponding route according to their preferences.
IV. 🗺️ Baiyun Train Simple Itinerary Arrangement
The Baiyun Train 18-day North and South Xinjiang Panorama Itinerary takes you through the core hidden treasures of the Western Regions in one trip. The itinerary connects Chongqing’s culture, the Hexi Corridor, and the essence of both northern and southern Xinjiang, covering diverse landscapes such as grasslands, lakes, glaciers, canyons, plateaus, and ancient cities. Multiple routes are available, with in-depth exploration and no rushing.
D1 Departure | Gather in Guangzhou/Chongqing:Exclusive boarding welcome ceremony and featured song-and-dance theme activities, overnight on the Baiyun Train
D2 In-depth Chongqing Exploration:Visit the Three Gorges Museum, taste authentic mountain city hot pot, and take a night tour of the Raffles landmark to enjoy the city night view, overnight on the train
D3 Chongqing → Urumqi:Exclusive Silk Road cultural salon on the train, immersive viewing of the magnificent scenery of the Hexi Corridor along the way, overnight on the train
D4 Urumqi (choose one of two routes)
Route A:Xinjiang Museum + International Grand Bazaar, unlocking Western Regions cultural charm; Route B: Tianshan Tianchi, encountering the picturesque scenery of the Jade Lake, overnight on the train
D5-D6 Altay Hidden Treasure Exploration (choose one of two routes)
I. 🍃 Detailed Introduction to the Baiyun TrainRoute A:Drive along the Ahe Highway, enjoy Hemu, and take the Kanas cruise; Route B: Stroll through Chonghur village, cross the Tiejia Highway, and explore Baihaba; stay two consecutive nights in high-end homestays in the Hemu and Kanas scenic areas
D7 Kanas Scenery + Specialty Cuisine:Visit the classic photo spots of the three bays of Kanas, taste the intangible cultural heritage cold-water fish banquet, board the train in the evening for Yining, overnight on the train
D8-D11 Ili · Kuqa Panorama Tour (three routes available, Route C requires an additional 6,000 yuan/person)
Route A:Sayram Lake, Tianshan Flower Sea, Nalati Grassland, Duku Highway, Keziliya Grand Canyon
Route B:Sayram Lake, Kalajun Grassland, Kurdening, Keziliya Grand Canyon
Route C:Yizhao Highway, Zhaosu Jade Lake, Xiata Ancient Road, Sayram Lake, Grand Canyon
Official legitimate registration channel: Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center, 24-hour consultation and registration, company landline: 0991-3333832, mobile phone same as WeChat: 132-0133-3409.
Stay throughout at local high-end hotels such as those at Sayram Lake and Nalati. Board the train on the evening of D11 for Kashgar
D12-D13 Pamir Plateau Tour:Visit Baisha Lake and Karakul Lake, visit local villages for home visits, watch intangible cultural heritage dance performances, and stay consecutive nights at high-end hotels in Tashkurgan and Kashgar
D14 Kashgar Cultural Journey:Stroll through Kashgar Old City and visit the Id Kah Mosque, board the train in the evening for Korla, overnight on the train
D15 Korla → Golmud:Visit the Bayingolin Museum and enjoy Bosten Lake, overnight on the train
The Baiyun Train is a distinctive tourism special train in China focused on long-distance leisure slow travel, emphasizing a comfortable residence-style travel experience. It adopts a mode of traveling at night and sightseeing during the day, eliminating the need to frequently change accommodation and saving the hassle of repeatedly packing luggage and transferring between cities. This train is one of China’s earlier tourism special trains built around a Chinese scholarly-gentry theme. The entire train has 18 carriages and is recommended to offer 92 VIP seats, using a lower-density travel configuration suitable for various travel needs such as family trips, group travel with friends, and leisure travel for middle-aged and elderly people. The overall itinerary pace is relaxed, allowing visitors to immersively enjoy the scenery along the way. It supports boarding at the nearest of three locations — Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Lanzhou — making travel more convenient.D16 Golmud Salt Lake Wonder:Visit Qarhan Salt Lake and witness the magnificent scenery of the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Salt Bridge, overnight on the train
D17-D18 Return Journey Fully Loaded:The train returns, arriving in Guangzhou/Chongqing, and the 18-day North and South Xinjiang Panorama Journey concludes successfully
Reasonable itinerary changes may be made upon mutual agreement between both parties.
V. 📅 2026 Baiyun Train Departure Dates and Price Description
The Baiyun Train has multiple departure schedules throughout 2026, with denser schedules during peak tourism seasons, meeting travel plans for different periods. The per-person travel prices differ according to seat type and departure date. Reference prices are as follows:
Exclusive Departure Dates:
Tianshan Jinshu Edition · Midsummer Green (Summer Panorama):May 18, June 6, June 26, July 16, August 5, August 24
Jinfeng Huajuan Edition · Autumn Limited (Golden Autumn Scenery):September 14
Light Luxury Pricing (one person per seat, two people per room, pure private double-occupancy compartment):
Yunqi · Lanyue Luxury Twin Room
II. 🛏️ Baiyun Train Seat Types, Hardware Configuration, and Advantages and FeaturesTianshan Jinshu Summer Edition Reference Price:118,880 yuan/seat
Jinfeng Huajuan Autumn Edition Reference Price:128,880 yuan/seat
Yunqi · Yayun Quality Twin Room
Tianshan Jinshu Summer Edition Reference Price:98,880 yuan/seat
Jinfeng Huajuan Autumn Edition Reference Price:108,880 yuan/seat
Prices fluctuate slightly with season, room type, and departure date. The specific price is subject to actual consultation and signing.
VI. 📞 Baiyun Train Booking and Registration Methods, How to Buy Tickets, Where to Book and Register?
If you want to ride the Baiyun Train, please keep this ticket booking guide.
Tourism travel products related to the Baiyun Train are not sold as separate ticket resources on the 12306 platform. You can learn about product schedules, itinerary arrangements, and complete reservations through Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center.
The ticket booking process is as follows:
The Baiyun Train offers two types of private compartments. The compartments differ in space size, interior facilities, privacy, and comfort, and can be freely chosen according to your budget and travel preferences:Contact for Consultation: Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center, 24-hour consultation and registration, company landline: 0991-3333832, mobile phone same as WeChat: 132-0133-3409. Learn about the Baiyun Train’s detailed itinerary, seat and room types, reference prices, departure schedules, and other information.
Choose Travel Product:Based on your available time and travel preferences, select a suitable departure date and train seat/room type.
Submit Personal Information:Provide the names of travelers and basic document information such as valid ID numbers, Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan travel permits, and passports, to facilitate travel registration and seat reservation.
Complete Booking Procedures:Pay the travel booking deposit according to the travel agency’s relevant requirements, obtain relevant payment receipts, and sign the unified electronic contract supervised by the tourism service authority to complete the booking process.
From June to September each year, tourism travel demand is strong, and seats on popular long-distance special train routes are relatively tight. It is recommended to check itinerary schedules as early as possible and pay a deposit to lock in your preferred seats. Travel bookings can be handled through Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center. Pay more attention to various travel information online, carefully identify non-legitimate channels, and protect your own travel rights.
VII. 💰 Baiyun Train Fees and Service Description
The service items included in the Baiyun Train itinerary are arranged according to unified standards, including relevant transportation, basic accommodation, sightseeing support, and other related services within the itinerary; personal voluntary consumption items and optional experience items are not included.
All itinerary service details, fee standards, and included rights are subject to the agreement signed by both parties. Various travel-related rights and fees are subject to actual consultation and signing. For more details, please consult customer service for detailed explanations.
For single-person registrations, our agency will make every effort to coordinate room sharing; special circumstances require separate negotiation. Refund and change rules are implemented in accordance with relevant provisions of the Tourism Law.
VIII. ✨ Conclusion
Autumn Xinjiang is currently in a colorful viewing period. If you happen to be planning a trip to northern and southern Xinjiang and do not want to be disturbed by the trivial matters of frequent transfers and packing luggage, you may consult Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center to learn about the remaining seats on the Baiyun Train and start a relaxed and pleasant North and South Xinjiang Panorama Journey.
For the 2027 Baiyun Train Tourism Special Train, tickets must be booked through the railway-designated professional and legitimate channel — the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center. You cannot place orders yourself through platforms such as 12306. Official legitimate registration channel: Manager Maizi at the Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Agency Special Train Center, 24-hour consultation and registration, company landline: 0991-3333832, mobile phone same as WeChat: 132-0133-3409.
