Sights in Ürümqi
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Xinjiang Autonomous Region Museum
The provincial Xinjiang Autonomous Region Museum has finally finished a massive US$13 million renovation (ten spanking-new halls were built and English captions are being put up - hurrah!) and is a must for Silk Road aficionados. Desert-mummified bodies include the 'famous' old 'Loulan Beauty' of Indo-European ancestry, who became something of a Uighur independence symbol in the 1990s.
The lost cities of Xīnjiāng - for example Niya, Loulan, Astana and Jiaohe - can basically only be studied here as they're now all either bare or off-limits (in particular Loulan, near one of China's nuclear test sites). New exhibitions include Buddhist frescoes from the Kizil Caves and an i…
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Erdaoqiao Market
This former Uighur market is no better than a Chinese-run tourist trap these days, but the streets to the north are still the centre of Ürümqi's Uighur community.
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Hóngshān Park
More of an amusement park, with better views than People's Park. Also has north and south entrances.
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Èrdàoqiáo Market & International Bazaar
The Uighur market, Èrdàoqiáo Market(Èrdàoqiáo Shìchǎng), and the International Bazaar (Guójì Dàbāzhá), have undergone extensive 'redevelopment' in recent years. The carpenters and blacksmiths that once worked in the nearby alleys have all but vanished and the target customers are no longer Uighur traders but Chinese tour groups, who arrive in droves. Planted in the bazaar is a replica of the Bukhara Minaret in Uzbekistan. This one, of course, has an elevator to the top. The area is bursting with restaurants, snack stalls and souvenir stands, plus the odd camel brought in for tourist photos. The non-traditional has also arrived in the form of a KFC and Carrefo…
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