Turfan est la premiere etape au Xinjiang ou l'on sent directement l'influence de la culture de la route de la soie. Cela fait plaisir de se retrouver enfin dans une autre ambiance, musulmane cette fois. Ce sont d'autres visages, d'autres couleurs, notamment celles des voiles des femmes, tres originales dans les tons, les design et surtout la man...

Thursday, September 27th The train station for Turpan is some 40 kilometers northwest of Turpan, in an area that, from the window of a train, looks a lot like a lifeless wasteland. Our local guide for the remainder of the trip, a polyglot named Taher (pronounced tah HERE), met us at the station with a small bus early Thursday morning and took us...

Friday 15th of September 2006. Overnight bus journey to Turpan (Tulufan) 184 miles. Naomi (London), Gaynor (the older lady from Bristol), Luke and Valeran (the Swiss French couple) and I were all getting the night bus. We had all booked early enough that our bunks were together. When Naomi said he had bunk number 1. I thought she would be at the...

After what was a wonderful overnight train ride - at least in comparison to a sleeper bus! - we arrived in Turpan. Turpan is one of those famed Silk Road destinations located in the middle of the desert. It's steeped in history and our first stop in Xinjiang - a province quite different from the majority of China in terms of people, food and rel...

Ungern verlassen wir Kashgar, da es uns diese Stadt mit ihren Menschen und der orientalischen Athmosphere angetan hat. Nach ein wenig Aufregung am Bahnhof wegen unserer riesen Messer im Rucksack - d a s typische Souvenier aus Kashgar - steigen wir um 2 Uhr Nachmittag in den Zug. Wir haben 'hard sleeper'-Abteile gebucht und sind ganz positiv uebe...

well, ive made it to turpan, and its hot..damn hot. the temperature has been in the low 40's for the past 3 days..but somehow that adds to this place. as all there is to do is chill out eat grapes and drink beer..i could stay...not forever, but for a good while. ive seen alot of cool stuff, and met alot of great people..but the highlight lately ...

HOT HOT HOT! Turpan (Tulufan, Torpan, Torfan,.. WHATEVER) is an "Oasis" city in the middle of the hot desert, the city itself is also very hot and it seems that midday is a horrid time to walk around. In the early morning when we arived wasn't that bad, we got of the train and were offered a car directly to the hotel in Turpan for the same price...