Silver Star Urumqi

No.639 Qitai Road Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur, 830000, China

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A Tread of the Silk Road

A travel blog entry by michellendave

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FOLLOWING THE SILK ROAD INTO XINJIANG

Dave has wanted to see the far west of China for a long time. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is a sparsely populated region of high mountains and massive deserts. In addition to the unique natural scenery, we are looking forward to visiting the home to 47 ethnic minorities, 60% of Xinjiang's total population. The Uyghur is the major ethnic group and have their own language and ...

Arrive Urumqi, Grand Bazaar, Night Market, Mosques

A travel blog entry by londone7

... my first full day and get to see Xinjiang by daylight and heading in the morning to Heavenly Lake at the top of the mountain range


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Introduction to Xinjiang - Silk Road China

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... chinese muslim explorer Zheng He that sailed all across south east asia, the middle east, and africa, founding colonies and trading posts, and may have even made it as far as America, before China shut its borders and retreated into isoloationism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
The name 'Xinjiang' means new frontier, which it was to the ethnic chinese as they moved further inlands west, similar to when american ...

My Eureka Moment About Uyghur Music

A travel blog entry by shoulin4

... I guess.

Anyway, epiphany reached, I decided to take a different approach entirely and began asking Mr. A2 questions about Uyghur history, ancient history that is far removed from China and much more related to Turkic history. I asked him about ancient beliefs and learned that the Uyghurs had an old religion before Islam, which immediately hearkened things I'd learned about Tibetan culture, that their ancient religion of Bon influenced certain aspects of ...

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 du Kazakhstan. Une connaissance nous avait fait miroiter un plan de reve, 600km a travers de magnifiques paysages de montagnes dans les Tian Shan. Seule difficulte a surmonter, la plupart de la route traverse ...

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