Heavenly Lake (Tianchi Lake) Urumqi

115 km (71 miles) northeast of Urumqi, Urumqi , Xinjiang Uygur, China
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    Lake, Lookout

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  • 1

    Silk Road I: Xinjiang

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    ... a white puffy dress and wanted to be friends with everyone. These kids liked playing with cameras even more than the ones at the Heavenly Lake and there were camera flashes every as they ran around with our cameras. I ended up with photos of elbows, the ...

  • 2

    To Heaven Lake - in the footsteps of Vikram Seth!

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    ... a magical Christmas card scene - as the blurb says: "Nestling among Alpine scenery, with melted snow as its source, lies Heavenly lake. Its crystal clear waters are surrounded by green pastures dotted with the yurts of nomadic Kazakhs, and the silvery ...

  • 3

    Heavenly Lake

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    ... her obsession with repacking her bags each morning at around 5am. More to come in later posts about this nutter. Heaven's or Heavenly  Lake (Tian Chi) is a beautiful small, long steely blue lake nestled below the 5445m Peak of God mountain. We were ...

  • 4

    Xinjiang is awesome

    ... , a nomadic Muslim people, lots of Kazaks, and some other smaller groups like the Hui. Near town is a tourist attraction called Heavenly Lake.  It is what it sounds: a lake in the mountains.  Local entrepreneurs have set up cafes and shops ...

  • 5

    Trouble in da mookie

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    ... the other way. At that point, I swore to get out of this hellhole ASAP. Even though I was to go to Tian Chi (Heavenly Lake) the next day to do some horseriding in the mountains with Kazakh herders, I wasn't going to stay in Urumqi another night to ...

  • 6

    Arrive Urumqi, Grand Bazaar, Night Market, Mosques

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    ... which was CCTV, as well as some Russian Channels. Again all the writing and programming was in arabic. Tomorrow will be my first full day and get to see Xinjiang by daylight and heading in the morning to Heavenly Lake at the top of the mountain ...

  • 7

    Arrive Urumqi, Grand Bazaar, Night Market, Mosques

    ... was in arabic. Tomorrow will be my first full day and get to see Xinjiang by daylight and heading in the morning to Heavenly Lake at the top of the mountain range ORIGINAL ENTRY WITH ALL PICS IS HERE Read more: ...

  • 8

    Tianchi

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    LX and I went on a tour to Tianchi (Heavenly Lake). Neither of us is really the kind of person who goes on tours, but given the situation (if only all the road blocks) it seemed like the quickest and most convenient way of going to the places I was keen ...

  • 9

    Climbing the stairs up to Tian Chi

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    For our little mountain excursion to Tian Chi, or Heavenly Lake, we got up at 4:30am!! At around 7:00am, we were waiting in front of the tour operator office, at the outskirt of a small but very charming public park. We waited for about an hour for our ...

  • 10

    Day 1: August 16th. Urumqi, China

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    ... religion and the culture within the town. After the internation bazaar we drove 2 hours along an extremly bumpy and narrow road to the heavenly lake.  Because the lake lies at an elevation of 6,500 ft. the bus could not take us the entire ...