Posts Tagged ‘xinjiang’

End of the world? No longer in Kashgar!

In 2004 I decided to go to Kashgar, at that time there was the myth of it being the end of the world, have a look yourself. Although preparations have been made and I was ready to go, I did not. Too many things happened in Shanghai and Beijing and time was extremely [...]

Magdalena goes Urumqi… and much farther!

Leaving Shanghai for a destination nobody knows something about like Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) is not very common, especially not, if you have no idea that you are going there. My fellow friend Magdalena came to China to visit me in Shanghai, not expecting that I had completely different plans with her: there was [...]