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Karakul (black lake)

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July 8th 2012
Our hosts at Karakul lake are Uighur. They do not speak mandarin. The family have goats, yaks and a couple of yurts they use for tourist income. The noodles are handmade from flour and produced using a machine similar to a pasta making machine. Karakullake is surrounded bypeaks over 7,000 metres including Mustagh Ata (attempted by Eric Shipton who nearly made it to the summit) and Kongur. It would ... read more

Asia » China » Xinjiang

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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