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Asia » China » Xinjiang June 24th 2006

Hi Mum, I'm in Afganistan Just kidding....I have spent just 2 days in a remote town called Karakul, 3hrs from the boarder of Pakistan and Afgan. It was the first time I really felt the contradictions of this land in every sense of the word. Travelling 6hrs through rough terrain, I watched the landscape change from desert to ice mountians. The most incredible was a scene of fireary red mountains against a backdrop of glaciers. Where else do u see camels on a sand dune and a huge glacial melt behind it? At Karakul, I lived with a family with ancestery from Kyrgyzstan. We stayed in yurts (huts) by the lake surrounded by ice mountains with green pastures, grazing yaks and goats. It was a place I thought I could only visit through the pages of ... read more
Karakul Lake
Karakul
Lazy Goats

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Kashgar June 21st 2006

It's been along time coming but I can finally say I am loving China! I'm in a bizarre place, a province called "Xinjiang" north of the Middle Kingdom. Xinjiang is boardered by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. This amazing cross road in Asia has an incredible mix of middle eastern, central asian and chinese culture. Here are some of my notes along the silk road. The Green Eyed "Chinese" Yeah there really are -- and they are called the "Uigher" (Weegar) people. Here, the "chinese" sometimes have long wavey brown hair, piercing blue/ green eyes and middle eastern/ central asian features. The Uigher people have Turkish roots and speak a language that is derived from Turkish. Walking down the street I see women with head pieces and some in the head to toe outfit ... read more
Brother n Sister
Family
Back Streets of Kashgar

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Kashgar June 15th 2006

hi, after looking at our photos we saw we have a large number of ones showing doors. we found that statistic strange and thought maybe someone would find the photos interesting. so here is the appendix to our Kashgar entry. Dont forget to read about Kashgar in the main entry: Kashgaria enjoy ... read more
The Doors of Kashgar
The Doors of Kashgar
The Doors of Kashgar

Asia » China » Xinjiang June 12th 2006

the LAMETAYEL ODAFIM travel store is just 5 minute away from my work and I stop there once in a while to look at stuff and get some inspiration. A year and a half ago I bought a few 2nd hand Lonely Planet books. I choose to buy books with exotic names and of places I will probably never visit so I can read about their history and look at the pictures to see places I will never see. One of the books I bought was about a highway - Karakorum highway. In the store I did not even recognize by looking at the map exactly where it was, only that it was deep in central-Asia. At home I understood it was a highway connecting Pakistan and western China. on one side a country i cannot ... read more
Kashgar - main Bazzar
Kashgar - main Bazzar
Kashgar - main Bazzar

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Lake Kanas June 9th 2006

Hi all this week we took a long and hard drive up to the north of Xinjiang (look at the map). it is a very unique area in the boarder of china, Russia and Mongolia because it is the only place in China that have a Siberian taiga Eco-system. . the park is not so new but the tourist infrastructure is all from the past year. it is mainly built for Chinese tourists and we saw no Western people for the whole 4 days there. To get there we took a Chinese tour group. we asked to get a tour with a English speaking guide. all we asked for is that the guide have basic English so we can know where and when to go, eat, sleep. instead we got one that not only did not ... read more
crossing the Jungar desert
crossing the Jungar desert
crossing the Jungar desert

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Lake Kanas June 9th 2006

hi all Kanas park was in it's springtime and it was full of flowers. we were overwhelmed by how many diffrent kinds of flower there were there. Hagit thought that there is no need to send so many flower photos in our blog so this is a flower appendix to our previous entry: This is the real Kanas Park blog entry if you got 2 link today then LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS ENTERY. it is more intresting :) ... read more
Lake Kanas flowers
Lake Kanas flowers
Lake Kanas flowers

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Kashgar April 17th 2006

AHH!! This blog is not complete, but I wanted to at least get the pictures up for you to see. Captions and a complete entry are on their way!!! Dear (no longer) abandoned blog, During spring break (March 31-April 6) CIEE took us on a group trip to Xinjiang which is the most Northwest province of China. The population there is largely made up of one of China's many ethnic minority groups, the Uyger people. Since Xinjiang (especially the city of Kashgar) is geographically so close to the middle east, the Uyger culture more closely resembles the cultures of the middle east. Also the Uyger people look middle eastern with a dash of Chinese mixed in. Our first stop was Urumqi, the biggest city in the area. We stopped at the city's museum and got to ... read more
Uyger People
Yak?
Karakul Lake

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Minfing January 24th 2006

in kashgar sollte es das erste richtige wuestenerlebnis geben und zwar ging es in die nahe gelegene wueste. leider schneite es so heftig, das in der trockensten wueste der welt 30 cm schnee lagen, ich glaube irgendwas stimmt da nicht mehr mit dem klima. so ging das gefuehl von wueste etwas verloren, da es komplett weiss war und kein sand in sicht. trotzdem beschlossen wir, wenn man schon mal da ist, einen kamelritt zu machen. so ging es in das endlose weiss und wir merkten nur am wackeln, dass das kamel ueber die duenen zottelte. den einzigen sand, den wir an diesem tag sahen, war unter den hufen des kamels. ansonsten sahen wir in den endlosen weissen horizont. doch heute kamen sie endlich, die wahren wuestengefuehle. wir sind inzwischen in der kleinen oase minfeng. es ist ... read more
taklamakan

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Kashgar January 16th 2006

wunderbares kashgar nach der hoellen busfahrt bis kuqa (durch die eiswueste mit kaputtem bus, sprich 37 std. bei - 10 grad innen temperatur) haben wir erstmal tage lang entspannt. die oasen stadt kuqa ist schoen, aber es ist genauso schwer hin wie weg zu kommen. danach ging es weiter mit der BAHN durch die endlose wuestenlandschaft nach kashgar dem westlichsten winkel chinas. die stadt haelt was der name verspricht. schon marco polo sagte ueber diesen ort:"es ist die groesste und schoenste stadt der zahlreichen oasen" zwar ist auch hier die moderne unaufhaltbar und so reihen sich schon einige betonblocks an der obligatorischen remin lu (volksstrasse) auf, aber das leben und der trubel in der altstadt ist unkaputtbar. So reihen sich in den engen lehmgassen die unterschiedlichsten bazaars, shops und gerueche aneinander, der muhezin ruft zum gebet ... read more
arabische stimmung
der sonntagsmarkt

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Urumqi January 5th 2006

wie bereits erwaehnt, sind wir in eine neue welt eingetaucht, in das am wenigsten "chinesische" gebiet der kompletten volksrepublik china. sowohl von den ethnischen gruppen als auch kulinarisch. auf den pfaden der seidenstrasse reisen wir im geschichtsreichen xinjiang (wortl. neue grenze) die eine flaeche so gross wie westeuropa umfasst, aber lediglich 13 millionen menschen leben hier. mit 3000 km entfernung liegt sie am weitesten weg von jeder kueste weltweit. also isoliert aber auch geschichtstraechtig. unter vielen kriegerischen auseinandersetzungen zwischen den herschern der wuestenkoenigreiche hatte diese region zu leiden. fuer china ist dieses gebiet ueberlebenswichtig geworden, denn nicht nur dass es an viele nachbarlaender grenzt, sondern hier liegt auch unter dem wuestensand begraben ein wichtiger schatz: oel, das fuer die energie chinas sorgt. ein landstich der extr... read more
kulinarisch ganz was neues




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