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The Father of Mountains
... happy we'd opted to go to the lake instead of the other trip we'd considered-a two-day camel trek into the sands of the Taklamakan desert. We had more tea and bread in the yurt and endured a showing of the hosts' handiwork that we didn't want to buy. ...
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Central Asian Market Day
... me quite tired at the end of them, even though I might have slept for a majority of the journey. The trip crosses the Taklamakan Desert, I am told the second biggest in the world (???) and a road to enable traffic to cross the desert has been built. ...
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Taklamakan Desert***
Entry containing 41 photos titled: Taklamakan Desert
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I ask you eat food.
... to do there except inhale dust and get stared at, plus I wanted to get on the 25-hour bus to Urumqi through the Taklamakan Desert, which is this giant circle of sand in the middle of Xinjiang. Apparently the Silk Road split east of the desert and went ...
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Kuqa, China
... kept me entertained over the last week. I tried to think about all those foreign explorers who had travelled through the Taklamakan desert looking for treasuries to take back to Europe and those who had lost their lives (literally the desert where ...
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Wiggers (Uighurs) are Cool
... -encrusted carpet. I left Yarkand and took a bus to Hotan (Hetian), which is in the south part of Xinjiang at the bottom of the Taklamakan Desert. I stopped before the bus left to have some lamian at a Uighur restaurant, and three nice ...
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Where are the Women?
... a German couple who are riding from Germany to Indonesia. They rode in from Kyrgyzstan and planned to ride the train through the Taklamakan desert and continue riding from Xining. Frank didn't talk much but Franka more than made up for it. They have a ...
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Kuqa - Taklamakan Desert
... have been driving through some amazing scenery. We've been sandwiched between the Tien Shan Mountain range to the north and the Taklamakan Desert to the south - I discovered today that in the local Uighur language the name of the desert means "Go in - ...
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The Silk Road
... more mountains and losing altitude all the time as we come down from the plateau and begin to skirt the edge of the Taklamakan desert. There is still no tarmac and we are sharply reminded of the precarious nature of the road when we come ...
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Heavenly Lake
... of that sort. And I didn't disappoint, spicy chicken and a crispy burger that turned out to be made of prawn. The Taklamakan Desert. Uighur word meaning 'Enter but do not come out' Another nickname is the 'Sea of Death'. Together with it's neighbouring ...
Taklamakan Desert Map
- Karakoram Highway
- Sayram Lake
- Centre of Asia Marker
- Heavenly Lake (Tianchi Lake)
- John's Information Cafe
- Red Hill
- Southern Mosque
- Tianshan Mountains
- Xinjiang Regional Museum (Qu Bowuguan)
- Ancient City of Jiaohe (Yarkhoto)
- Astana-Karakhoja Tombs
- Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
- Emin Minaret (Su Gong Ta)
- Flaming Mountains (Huoyan Shan)
- Karez System
- Ancient City of Gaochang (Kharakhoja)