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Kezhou Hotel Urumqi

No.45 Hetan North Road Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur, China

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A Tread of the Silk Road

A travel blog entry by michellendave

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... French grocery store chain, that promised imported items such as cheeses and some beverages we had gone without for some time. We got directions from the hostel desk clerk. It was a lot of stops and lengthy ride on BRT #3. But soon we were delighted to see the giant ‘Carrefour’ letters on the side of a building. Once inside, we were disappointed. No cheese apart from the ‘processed’ slices. No imported wine. No Sake. ...

Heaven Lake, Kazakh Yurts, Turpan Night Market

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... it was evening you can feel the humidity and heat vapours more as Turpan is supposed to be the hottest part of the tour almost upto 40 degrees. TV in the hotel was dissapointing. No Xinjiang TV channels, only state CCTV Chinese channels. The only foreign channels were Spanish and Russian versions of CCTV showing the same news items.

Tomorrow we spend the day outdoors seeing many of the outdoor archeological sites and hopefully I wont die in the heat.
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Heaven Lake, Kazakh Yurts, Turpan Night Market

A travel blog entry by londone7

... very famous here.

We then took the park bus the 30km back to the entrance where our car and driver were waiting. However, we got off early to visit his friends local yurt. They offered us milk tea, nuts, and homemade breads. The inside of the yurt had carpeting on the floors and walls. It seemed like ...

Introduction to Xinjiang - Silk Road China

A travel blog entry by londone7

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This is a very good youtube channel dedicated to uyghar culture and history
http://www.youtube.com/user/Duldul601?f eature=watch#g/u

ORIGINAL ENTRY WITH ALL PICS IS HERE
Read more: http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-e ntries/londone7/1/1308566556/tpod.html# ...

Tianshan Tianshi Lake

A travel blog entry by kevinmarkbrown

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... further, but we got waved on. He had been there many times and had never been allowed to drive up to the top. They usually want you to pay for the special buses, or else walk. He attributed it to my presence, kept saying "it’s because Kevin is with me". He thought that was intensely amusing, and kept saying it.

The views at the top were spectacular, as all my pictures testify. Took a good, old walk up to the monastery on the other side of the ...