Xinjiang: Turpan to Urumqi
October 3rd 2007 We head via bus 3+ hours to Urumqi from Turpan. Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang province. On our drive over, there is nice scenery - view of the snow on Heavenly Mt, large salinized lake, wind farms, and mountains. Quite a nice drive.
Except for... ok, this is gross, beware:
We stopped at a rest stop and I had to go to the bathroom since I had two cups of coffee with breakfast - it was the m
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