Wen Zhou Mansion Hotel Kashgar

Torugurt ligt hoog en het is er koud!!!! Vanaf Narin is het nog 190km volgens de kaart dus zelfs als we de slechte wegen die we hier gewend zijn incalculeren en rekening houden met kronkelende bergwegen, zouden we het moeten redden om maandagmiddag bij de Chinese grens aan te kloppen. Wishful thinking blijkt want als het zonnetje tegen een uur 5 flink begint te zakken, zien we nog geen grensposten….Dus campsite zoeken en poep rapen want het is echt berekoud! Met een zak vol ...

... with the vast majority of people muslim Uighers; with their food, clothing, gold plated smiles and lifestyle markedly different from the Han Chinese. We felt that our visit was a great introduction to the region in which we would be travelling for the next few weeks and we enjoyed our couple of days as two of the very few tourists in the town. <br><br> <br>We flew in late from Urumqi to find an airport taxi cartel, a police/army road block for passprot cheques ...

... to the Everest Base Camp. Fiona decided to purchase a number of furry presents for friends from a nice young Urghur man. <br><br>Negotiations went very well and he was very keen to show Fiona all of the different ways to wear the furs. This involved me sitting down and watching as this man got extremely close to tie the fur in all sorts of different ways. All I could hear was,&#8221; Mike he&#8217;s a bit close. Opp&#8217;s that was very close.&#8221; This ...

... on.<br><br>We returned to try to check in to the Good Day Inn only to find frightened staff shooing us away before we could even get in the door. They stated that they had expected to get their foreigner hosting liscense only to have the disturbance make it impossible. So we had no choice but to return to the hotel where we were initially quartered, inside the old British consulate. When we checked in at 1400, shops were open on the streets. By 2100 Beijing time&#8212;1900 local time ...

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... var nemlig kanskje den eneste blonde i byen. Barna, som ennå ikke hadde ferdigutviklete hemninger, pekte og lo trillende av henne. Voksne var mer subtile, men det var ofte å se at folk stoppet opp og dulta hverandre stille i armen, før de på skift kikket over skuldrene. Det føltes som en mellomting av å være kjendis og the town freak.<br><br>Andre dag stod vi med (den dyrekjøpte) lappen i hånden, og ble geleidet lett over grensepasset, som faktisk er beliggende på drøye 3700 meter.<br>

Kashgar is the true frontier city of China and was a significant hub of ancient Silk Road trade. Like nearly all centres in the far west of China, Kashgar is an oasis city located in the western Tarim basin also known as Kashgaria. Lonely Planet comments:<br><br>"Kashgar (Kashi) is the end of China's New Frontier, itself the end of China. The first intrepid Chinese traders must have envisioned themselves at the end of the earth as they approached this readymade oasis for the first ...

From the Torugat Pass to Kashgar, Far West China OR A Tough Time for Two Tired Travellers <br><br>It feels quite strange to actually walk from one country and into another. But that is exactly what we did. <br><br>The amazingly bleak and inhospitable No Mans Land of the Torugat Pass is no relaxing place to hang out and after a miserably cold and frustrating three hour wait with our ever obliging Kyrgyz guide and driver, our Chinese guide Abdul finally arrived to ...

We were well read about the administrative difficulties tourists can encounter crossing the Torugat Pass into China and we were keen to get going so that we would not miss our driver who was picking us up at 12.00 noon from the Chinese side of the border. Vita and Slava were not quite so enthusiastic about our desire for punctuality, relaying horror stories of the Chinese drivers always being late, and in some instances not turning up at all. <br><br>The main ...

... of beautiful wares and carefully avoided mentioning prices-a sure way to start bargaining that would indebt us into a purchase. The houses we visited were built on a courtyard plan with the, bedrooms and kitchen circling it. Different generations lived on different floors, even in the basements. The television and a big bed or carpeted platform seemed to have the place of honor in the courtyard, where people could sit in the cool shade and take refreshment. After a ...