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Kashgar Old Town
Blog: Roving Light Travel Photo Blog - 13 June 2010
When I covered Kashgar 2 years back, I mentioned that the highlight for me was the Old Town. Last year, there were news that Kashgar's Old Town will be razed. The Chinese government of course had various reasons for it, but whatever the case or reasons, the news saddened me greatly.
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Bai Haba (白哈巴), North Xinjiang
Blog: Roving Light Travel Photo Blog - 22 May 2010
Northern Xinjiang is a lovely place to visit, esp in autumn. Besides the wonderful trek between Kanas and Hemu village, there is another village very well worth the time to visit - Bai Haba (白哈巴) village, the most northwestern village in China.
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Travel Bloggers Who Make a Difference
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 15 May 2010
We have been extremely fortunate in who we have come in contact with through Abandon the Cube. We’ve met so many amazing travelers, as well as great writers, photographers and people on amazing missions across the planet.
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A Tired Traveler in Turpan
Blog: asian ramblings - 28 April 2010
Thinking about travel in Xinjiang, China? A guest post by Josh of Far West China.
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Top 5 Destinations
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 6 January 2010
2009 has gone and with it goes my greatest year of travel; so many people have asked for highlights, so here is my top 5 in no particular order! I had the enviable task of spending six months of 2009 on the road – taking in 14 countries – and I’m going to try and narrow it down to the top five spots that I visited. Plenty of people that I’ve spoken with think that such lists are daft, that there is little point in designating an obscure spot that is ...
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Xinjiang- Central Asia/China
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 26 October 2009
After a lot of work (getting the visa, getting info about transportation etc.) I finally got on the bus to Kashgar. it’s a Chinese sleeper bus, which means each passenger has a Chinese-seize bunk-bed (much too short). the ride is pretty nice, though not smooth and quite bumpy. the border crossing is a big waste of time. [...]
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Urumqi, capital of the Uighurs
Blog: Travelicious - 20 July 2009
We had a short stopover in Ürümqi in the western Xinjiang province, China, a city with a population of around 1.6 million. It is quite famous for its claim that is the most inland city in the world, that being the furthest from any ocean.
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Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, China.
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 3 July 2009
Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, China – Images by Jamie McDonald When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Well, we were on the road to Rome, in Kashgar, a crucial silk road stop after and before the Taklamakan Desert. The name of the desert in local folklore means Go in and you won’t come out, and the fierce heat and sandstorms could easily allow one to dissapear very quickly. We wanted to go for a ride into the desert by camel, so we contacted Ali at Uighur Tour and Travel Centre (mailto: silkroadguide@hotmail.com) ...
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Urumqi to Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 23 June 2009
12.57 PM Urumqi to Kashgar Express, Xinjiang, China – Images by Jamie McDonald Welcome to beautiful Kashgar. The oversized billboard in the old town square is not modest in its own description and nor should it be. This is a town that has been on the crossroads of the world for millennia, having seen empires and dynasties across asia, through the middle east and the mediterranean rise and fall as trader caravans crawled through the desert on the silk road. Time today is brief as a 23 hour train trip to Turpan ...
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