A Kazakh kid

A break from The Silk Road, China

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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 ... read more

Asia » China

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more