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City Hotel Urumqi

No.119 Hongqi Road Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur, 830002, China

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A Tread of the Silk Road

A travel blog entry by michellendave

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The pictographs require some imagination to see them as skiers. And the dating techniques are suspect too, making it difficult to come to the same conclusion. But it is easy to believe the first skiers in China were Dinglings.

TEX-MEX TOWN

Dave craved TexMex and we walked a few miles to Texas Café run by an American Expat. It was challenging to get there. We had to match Chinese characters on street signs with ...

Arrive Urumqi, Grand Bazaar, Night Market, Mosques

A travel blog entry by londone7

... young chap happily holding a large card with my name in the arrivals lounge. His english was excellent and I assumed he would be my driver for the tour but unfortunately he only does the airport pickups.

At the hotel I was then met by my guide for my five day stay in ...

My Eureka Moment About Uyghur Music

A travel blog entry by shoulin4

... downtown. When we arrived at the post office, we were pleasantly surprised to find that there were practically no patrons there (it was right at the beginning of lunch time). I got my things registered and packed up fairly quickly, and we didn't even have to quarrel with the workers about the fragility of what I was trying to ship. They packed up the suitcase, I paid the fee, and Ms. J and I went along our merry way.

We then stopped for lunch, as the both of us ...

Wulumuqi + possibly the worst driver in the world

A travel blog entry by kevinmarkbrown

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... a driver! To say she drove erratically is being kind. It took us an age to get back – mainly 'cos she was in 3rd gear a lot of the time. Zhou kept saying "accelerate", “jia you, jia you”. It was comical and frustrating at the same time. Zhou thought it really funny.

The original plan had been to take in a little of Wulumuqi in the evening. That got shelved as it was already well past midnight and there were plans for the next ...

Back "Home" in the Lovely & Exotic City of Urumqi

A travel blog entry by crowdywendy

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... course the Spring season. Huge deserts swallow a lot of Shaanxi Province and soon the land transformed into large expanses of buff treeless plains intercepted by strangely contoured bare mountains. We were puzzled by what looked to be huge dry river beds, their extensive tributaries contorted and entangled like a mass of riddled tree roots. We assume these are snow fed river beds that become alive, flooding the bare plains during the warmer weather. Closer ...

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