A break from The Silk Road, China
June 5th 2005 Hi (should I change my greetings from one blog to another? are you getting bored?)
Near Urumqi there is a beautiful lake up in the mountains called Tian Chi, or The Heaven Lake. The mountain range is called Tian Shan - The Heaven Mountain, and is a long range that crosses Xinjiang from east to west.
The lake is about 2000 m high, and therefore it is a little cooler there, which is a nice break f
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