Prologue: It’s been a year since my last entry. Last summer, James and I toured 6 places in Yunan and Chengdu area. I broke the blogs down into 6 pieces, one for each area. This year, we decided to do a family vacation, James, me, Alan (11) and Eric (6), four of us. Our mission: to tour the Silk Road starting from Xinjiang and ending at XiAn, by air, train and bus. Due to boys’ age and their limited traveling experiences in China, we had booked our trip and transportation at Shanghai through a tour company called Rainbow Travel Company on line. We decided to give it a try since we had never joined a guided tour before. Urumqi: On July 6, we flew out from HongQiao虹桥 airport from Shanghai to Urumqi. It’s kind of like
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