Hongqipo Apple Orchards
红旗坡冰糖心苹果园
The core production area of Aksu's ice-sugar-heart apples. In late autumn, visitors can enter the orchards to pick and taste the 'sugar-heart' apples, whose cores are translucent.
Hongqipo Farm lies on the northern outskirts of Aksu city, at the northern edge of the Kekeya forest belt. Its large day-night temperature range and abundant sunshine make it the core production area of the geographical-indication product Aksu apples. Most of the orchards grow Red Fuji, and the flesh around the core turns translucent, forming the 'ice-sugar heart'. The harvest season runs from late October to November. Some orchards welcome visitors to pick and buy fruit, and it can be shipped directly to other parts of China. The orchards are private farm production areas, so contact the orchard in advance and do not enter without permission. It can be combined with the Kekeya Memorial Hall on the same route, about 30 minutes' drive from central Aksu.
Opening hours
Daytime during picking season
Nearby sights
- Kekeya Memorial Hall
- Aksu Prefecture Museum
- Duolang River Scenic Belt
- Aksu National Wetland Park
- Tagelake Village (Ta Village)
- Tianshan Tomur Grand Canyon
- Bozidun Scenic Area
- Dolan Tribe Scenic Area