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Snow Lotus Hotel Urumqi

No.216 Qiantangjiang 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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We spent all Thursday at the Hostel, surfing the net, reading, and talking to other travelers. Janie, a 60+ Belgian guy living in Sweden arrived. He is a young at heart lifelong traveler who is meandering his way to Thailand. Sisi, also 60+, is a spunky solo Dutch traveler who lives in Belgium arrived late after a long ride with a taxi that couldn’t find the hostel. And finally, after many phone calls, he found it ...

Heaven Lake, Kazakh Yurts, Turpan Night Market

A travel blog entry by londone7

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If you were to blindfold and airdrop me I would think I was in Iran. This is not the China of Bejing and The Great Wall. Breakfast was in the arabian style hotel again with lifesize aladdins lamps in the dining area. They were also making fresh noodles in the kitchen.

There are two time zones in Xinjiang. Officially all of China is on Beijing Standard Time. However locals have adopted Xinjiang local time which is 2 hours back. You have to be careful as ...

Introduction to Xinjiang - Silk Road China

A travel blog entry by londone7

... ethnic chinese. I was fascinated by this part of China and wanted to see for myself. I loved the food I tried in the Xian muslim street market and Uyghar restaurant in Shanghai. Their music is very turkic/arabic and I wanted to hear more. The architecture is also quite unique, either pure ...

Meeting Double A

A travel blog entry by shoulin4

... up to the top floor, which wasn't the best idea in the world. It was hot, smokey, and greasy, but still a very interesting atmosphere. We all ordered food, and the two A's got their food rather quickly, but it took a frustratingly long time for me and Ms. J to receive our food. We were almost considering leaving. None-the-less, the food itself was rather
good.

After dinner, Ms. J and I parted ways with the two ...

Urumqi Adventures

A travel blog entry by j.bennison

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... every item under the sun. I asked at the information which que I needed and then lined for window 8. I had the page for Beijing on one finger. The Chinese in the back for hard sleeper with another finger so at the window I was ready to go. I knew there would be no tickets for today but when i got there she just barked at me 'no tickets.' I said for how long, she said 'no tickets.' This went on for some time, I even tried showing her my iPod calender which was still no ...