Urumqi Motels - Comments and Reviews

Fri.5th June. Turpan - Urumqi. 4 hours.
We left at 10am.The wind had cleared the smog making for a lovely drive out of Turpan.
We have learned to be extra vigilant when purchasing bottles of water/drinks. Helen was caught out ...bought a fake bottle of water yesterday at a small supermarket and it just goes to show that anyone can buy a bo...

Well I finally got here! Didn't actually believe that I was going to make it until I was on the flight from Beijing to Urumqi! Until then I was still expecting something to go wrong! I was met at the airport by a lovely man named Roger and taken to my new home for next year! Luckily the new home i was slightly cringing at is the wrong apartment ...

For the first time, I felt like I had bit off a bit more than I could handle. Urumqi (pronounced woo-loo-moo-chee by the Chinese) is the capital of remote Xinjiang Province in China's North West. It's basically Chinese Turkestan and borders all the ex-USSR 'stans (Kazakh, Kyrghiz, maybe Uzbeki, -stans). It also shares a border with Pakistan and ...