China 2001 - Part Three: Kashgar

" trinket vendor near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar"

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Travel story: China 2001 - Part Three: Kashgar

Kashgar, Friday, September 7



I spent most of the day traveling. First, I took a three and a half hour flight from Beijing to Urumqi. That's about the same distance as flying from New York to California. Urumqi is in the far northwest corner of China, in Xinjiang province. It's surrounded by mountains and deserts and is a hard place to get to by land travel. One of its claims to fame is that no city is farther for an ocean than Urumqi.



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