Yinhua Hotel Urumqi
No.52 Xinhua North Road, Tianshan District Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur, China
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A Tread of the Silk Road
... cola. None of the things we really craved. We managed to fill a few grocery sacks with things that looked good.
The next day, we went to the Parkson, just a few steps from our door. Parkson has an upscale grocery store with a selection of stuff as good as any in town. It also has a bakery. One of their baked cheesy sandwiches is delicious and I planned to have it every morning for breakfast.
NO PAKISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, ...
Heaven Lake, Kazakh Yurts, Turpan Night Market
... Iftar the end of the fast en route so we pulled into a service station so he could break his fast and pray. I saw another twin cd pack for 30Y as the store only had a single cd if Sharizoda, so I bought it as the Urumqi store didnt have it and didnt know if it would see it again. The next two days I would see ...
Arrive Urumqi, Grand Bazaar, Night Market, Mosques
... a short ride to the very large Beijing Airport where I had to clear immigration and transfer to a domestic flight to Urumqi. From the air the land is very barren immediately outside Beijing and we soon saw vast desert lands, with sweeping dunes, and rippled ridges.
Wulumuqi + possibly the worst driver in the world
... loads of CD shops, not really seen any anywhere else, tried to get a CD I’m after, no such luck. They just looked blank at me.
Then he took me to the Jade centre, loads and loads of businesses all dealing with jade or other (precious) stones. Thought about buying something as a gift, until I heard the prices. Even when bartered down still more than I wanted to pay.
Very colourful scenes from both spots. Very un-Chinese ...
Wild Wild West
... by saying she herself didn't want to be a housewife, but wanted to be a psychologist or a model instead. I didn't tell her that the first option was probably more achievable. That would have been tight. She was certainly tall enough to be a model, her dad was a professional basketball player she said and she had definitely inherited his lanky genes. It's just her fizog wasn't anything to shout about.
The last time I was in China I managed to escape a ...


