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A Romantic Travel Adventure
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 12 October 2011
Destination: China Book: The Song of the Silk Road by Mingmei Yip (NEW April 2011) They did it again. Got me to read a romance novel by disguising it as adventure travel. is indeed all three–romance (with plenty of sex), an adventuring quest, and travel to exotic locales Lily Lin, a young woman born in [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library. We'll leave a light on for you.
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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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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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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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