Next day, woke up, had breakfast at the hotel, and Tariq, our Uyghur guide showed up in time. Tariq spoke good English, so we agreed on the itinerary and drove off in his car. We went to see the multiple sites around Turpan. Breakfast at the hotel in Turpan; which is in a vineyard (grapes…
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Train station in Urumqi was very busy with hundreds of travelers using trains. The train to Turpan was a high speed train, and was punctual. Very comfortable seating and very smooth ride at over 200kph. The landscape from Urumqi to Turpan was absolutely bleak brown desert, with not a single blade of grass except in…
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To celebrate Dilshad’s birthday, we decided to do a trip to the ancient Silk Road of Western China. After a few days in Shanghai for a Beauty and Skincare Show, we took a high-speed traffic-weaving taxi ride to the Pudong airport. Learnt a lot of things in these last few days in China. For example,…
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Next morning, got up at 5AM, and by 5:30AM, we were on the way to the cave. This is actually a conical cave, with the top of the cave open (about 50m wide), and thousands of swallows nest inside the cave (320m deep). These swallows leave every morning en masse, to forage for food, and…
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SLP province has 3-4 regions, and the Huasteca Potosino area is in the eastern part of the state. This is supposed to be a forested, hilly and very green part of the province with lots of natural springs, rivers, hikes, mountains, caves etc. Huasteca Lots of citrus fruit grows in the Huasteca region San Luis…
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