Yining Airport is a 15 minute taxi ride north of town. The only destinations for flights out of Yining are [wiki=c46e51c263ff26fbce724bc34c4c0cdd]Urumqi[/wiki] and [wiki=eb7661eab34bc826061792e3639a03ba]Altay[/wiki].
Urumqi - takes about 12 hours
* Shihezi - takes about 8 hours
there is no direct train from Yining to Almaty
The Long Distance Bus Station is at the northwest end of Jiefang Road near the intersection with Ahemaitijiang Road.
* Almaty, Kazakhstan - takes about 12-15 hours, but apparantly no direct buses
* Altai City via Burqin - takes about 48 hours
* Chorgas - Small bus ¥25, Large bus ¥?. Use this to cross the border to Kazakhstan by foot. Takes about one hour after which you can walk to the border by foot in ten minutes. Once through the Chinese passport control and customs you must use a bus to travel over the border for ¥20. Bribes appear to have been formalised so that you need to pay a further ¥20 after the bus departs. On the Kazakh side there is another little bus that apparently costs 500 Tenge to take you to the taxi-stand. Do not forget to ask for your (apparently) free registration at the Kazakh border, you need two stamps on your immigration card for this. Otherwise it costs 767 Tenge, atleast in Almaty, to register. It is not really necessary but can save you a lot of hassle with corrupt officials.
* Kashgar - takes about 48 hours
* Korla - takes about 18-30 hours
* Urumqi - takes about 15 hours, pretty rough road
* Not a bad option, central and in a nice park.