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Ghost City
This is a top pick! While the sun made its way down behind the far hills, I crouched by a rock wall in a long-destroyed temple in the middle of the Jiaohe Ruins and imagined.
What had happened in this place?
I examined the crumbling wall. Were these striations and grooves in the rock from the wind alone? Could an army have destroyed this, or was …
The Ancient Capital and the Buddha Caves
This is a top pick! Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King of Chinese legend, was coming through XinJiang on his way to fetch back Buddhist sutras from India, when he and his master Xuan Zang were blocked by an impenetrable wall of flame rising from the desert.
Not that an impenetrable wall of flame is any barrier for a magic monkey. According to the story, the …
Tits to Turpan
One of the supposed highlights of travel in the remote state of Xinjiang is visiting the town of Turpan, or Tulufan as it is known to the Chinese. The draw cards I was to learn, aren't actually in Turpan, but are spread out in the surrounding barren countryside. Most of them up to 50km's away.
Once I realised this I wasn't too keen on …
Karez irrigation system and visiting the Turpanese
Thursday, September 27th The train station for Turpan is some 40 kilometers northwest of Turpan, in an area that, from the window of a train, looks a lot like a lifeless wasteland. Our local guide for the remainder of the trip, a polyglot named Taher (pronounced tah HERE), met us at the station with a small bus early Thursday morning and took us to …
Turpan - Western China
... ever rains here but due to plenty of water underground it is a fertile place covered in vines. The locals are in the process of burying the vines before the long harsh winter sets in. We walked through Tuyugou, a traditional Uighur village. Uighurs are the dominant ethnic minority in the area. Uighurs speak a language similar to Turkish and their writing looks like Arabic. Here life is simple and harsh. Women wash clothes in the stream and everyone is ...
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