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Travel Blogs from Urumqi, China

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Urumqi, Urumqi, China travel blog

Urumqi

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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The origin of bread and donuts?, Urumqi, China travel blog

The origin of bread and donuts?

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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If you thought Muslims were only good at growing beards, stoning and undertaking terrorism, think again. Across most of China you will find Muslims, often traders. In the far West, the Uyghurs, make an excellent bread called nan or nang. It is a flat ...

Heaven Pool, Tian Shi, Xinjiang, China travel blog

Heaven Pool

A travel blog entry by beats

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This 5 day trip provided me with some idyllic R&R. Up to now China had not offered restful travelling. It was see a place, take a long bus ride or three, see another place, move on. And there were some long, long bus rides. I spent much of my time ...

A Night With Ly and Wang, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China travel blog

A Night With Ly and Wang

A travel blog entry by beats

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... A Clue handing that on a card to Lionel Blair and saying, "Go on Lionel mime that one......." They feed me on something that looked like a black pudding (blood sausage) kebab on a skewer, but it being China could as easily have been pig's rectum. ...

Urumqi Wanderings, Urumqi, China travel blog

Urumqi Wanderings

A travel blog entry by bethverde

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... some businesses-have Chinese characters and the pinyin Romanization of the words, using the same letters as English. But in Urumqi, there were the characters-still 85 percent indecipherable even after nearly three years in China-and Uighur writing spelled ...

New email while in China, Urumqi, China travel blog

New email while in China

A travel blog entry by grizzly

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This is for my friends and family whom I am unable to contact via my usa.net account. In China, all Internet providers go through the national defense ministry which blocks thousands of web sites. This means, I am unable to get to my email account. Anyone ...

Extracting wisdom in China, Urumqi, China travel blog

Extracting wisdom in China

A travel blog entry by chris-marianne

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... of these of late), where we had arranged to meet Tiffany (who had decided to tear herself away from the riveting metropolis of Urumqi to provide M & I with someone else to talk to for a change). Luckily things are all pretty close to each other in Turpan, ...

Urumqi, Urumqi, China travel blog

Urumqi

A travel blog entry by nikkiviper

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Bussin vaihto, Urumqi, China travel blog

Bussin vaihto

A travel blog entry by iloinensancai

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Silk Road I: Xinjiang, Urumqi, China travel blog

Silk Road I: Xinjiang

A travel blog entry by justjonas

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... We took a four hour flight, which was nothing after a 14 hour one, and arrived in the far Western city of Urumqi in the province of Xinjiang. Beautiful weather. Huge city surrounded by mountains. Largely minority Muslim people called Uigurs who look very ...

International Plaza & Market, Urumqi, China travel blog

International Plaza & Market

A travel blog entry by michaeljudy

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Arabic, Cyrillic & Chinese Characters, Urumqi, China travel blog

Arabic, Cyrillic & Chinese Characters

A travel blog entry by markwilliams84

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... seeds, nice) all sold on the streets. It sometimes makes you feel more like you are in Central Asia rather than China. From Urumqi I wanted to catch the Silk Road Express train but unfortunately this only ran twice a week (on Saturday and Monday) ...

Erdaoqiao Market***, Urumqi, China travel blog

Erdaoqiao Market***

A travel blog entry by michaeljudy

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Different shopping ...

Leaving China, Urumqi, China travel blog

Leaving China

A travel blog entry by schwate

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... drittgroesste Minderheit (nach Uyghuren und Huihui). Ich bin gespannt, wie das Wetter in Almaty ist, laut Wettervorhersage etwas kuehler als Urumqi, hier war es gestern ueber 30 Grad, heute aber regnerisch und nur knapp ueber 10 Grad... Um 23:58 geht ...

To Heaven Lake - in the footsteps of Vikram Seth!, Urumqi, China travel blog

To Heaven Lake - in the footsteps of Vikram Seth!

A travel blog entry by krishnad

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... was fine - nothing special; a typical 'business' hotel - could have been anywhere in the world. 25th October: Our last day in China, and we ended on a high note with a journey into the snow-capped mountains to visit Heavenly Lake, 2000 metres up in the ...

Urumqi Break & Night Mkt***, Urumqi, China travel blog

Urumqi Break & Night Mkt***

A travel blog entry by michaeljudy

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Great and cheap ...

Military City, Urumqi, China travel blog

Military City

A travel blog entry by caraghandben

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... her summer holiday, a Canadian guy who lived in Almaty and a French lad making a film about the muslim community in Urumqi. We headed to bed, our China trip finished and Central Asia looming ahead of us. We really didn't know what to expect, having grown ...

Flat Breads and Kebabs, Turpan and Urumqi, China travel blog

Flat Breads and Kebabs

A travel blog entry by joandpaul

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... - particulary given the fact it's made of clay! After Turpan, it was a short bus journey to the provincial capital, Urumqi. Here we mainly battled with the Chinese train system and failed. We were planning on continuing West to Kashgar, but the ...

NaHu Garden, Urumqi, China travel blog

NaHu Garden

A travel blog entry by michaeljudy

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Ulumuqi NaHu ...

A Tread of the Silk Road, Urumqi, China travel blog

A Tread of the Silk Road

A travel blog entry by michellendave

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... food courts. I tried all four types of samsas they had. Some had sweet fillings other were savory. Urumqi, like many other large cities in China, has exploded into a cosmopolitan city with high-rises, department stores and traffic jams. Public buses ...

Across the Gobi..., Urumqi, China, China travel blog

Across the Gobi...

A travel blog entry by david_sandra

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... an area of intense heat and no rain has flourishing agriculture, particularly grapes.   Finally to our last stop in China - Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the largest province in China, in the far northwest of the ...

Arrivee dans le Xinjiang : Urumqi et Turfan, Urumqi, China travel blog

Arrivee dans le Xinjiang : Urumqi et Turfan

A travel blog entry by z00b

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Après avoir passé quelques jours à Beijing, nous voilà dans le Xinjiang, la partie ouest de la Chine. Urumqi, notre première étape, est la ville la plus éloignée de tout océan au monde. Vu sa situation, on s'attendait à une ville ...

The ticket quest, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China travel blog

The ticket quest

A travel blog entry by cutiebanana

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... city in the world. I daren't dispute the value of the LP; however, I must heartily disagree with their judgment of Urumqi (Urumqi is Ughyer language). I shall itemize for the sake of continuity (ha!). 1. It's not just everywhere in the world where ...

I ask you eat food., Urumqi, China travel blog

I ask you eat food.

A travel blog entry by ninedeuce

... then they go eat and do it.  I suppose if I was them I'd give it a shot, too.  We eventually got to Urumqi like 5 hours late.  I don't think I need to take anymore 20+ hour bus rides.  I got to another generic ...

Turpan to Urumqi - through the Gobi Desert, Ürümqi, China travel blog

Turpan to Urumqi - through the Gobi Desert

A travel blog entry by krishnad

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After breakfast, we left for Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region. It was a most exciting drive; through the Gobi Desert, in very windy, stormy conditions; on a fantastic highway [312] which stretches all the way from Shanghai to the border ...

KFC, we love thee, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China travel blog

KFC, we love thee

A travel blog entry by ataritouchme

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KFC in China is so wunderbar. Clean & quality toilets. Toilet paper & hand soap. Warm in cold weather, cool in hot weather. We just had a short layover here, and having seen everything we wanted to see in Wulumuqi, we spent a goodly amount of time in KFC. ...

urumqi, Urumqi, China travel blog

urumqi

A travel blog entry by laurantim

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... minute le vieux s est leve et on a pu etre a cote. Donc je fais tres attention dans les trains. En arrivant a  Urumqi j etais contente on etait ds une cabine fermee, lorsque 5 hommes debarquent, nous devisagent et s assoient avec nous. Je regarde ...

Xinjiang, Urumqi, China travel blog

Xinjiang

A travel blog entry by sonyann

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Le stop au sommet Deux petites journees a Urumqi, en auberge de jeunesse puisque certains couchsurfeurs ouighours ont eu le malheur devoir debarquer la police chez eux apres avoir heberge des etrangers. Nous y preparons notre escapade en stop en direction ...

A Man of Honour, Urumqi, China travel blog

A Man of Honour

A travel blog entry by robjstaples

... . I'm not really sure I understand it, but at base was genuine human kindness for which I'm hugely grateful. Much as I enjoy Urumqi, being up here in the vast spaces of North West China is an opportunity to escape and explore. Using my splendidly ...

De retour du lac, Urumqi, China travel blog

De retour du lac

A travel blog entry by nycos

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