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NOTE - added 6th July 2009 - about the recent trouble in Xinjiang :

When I travelled in 2001, there was no such trouble and locals both Uighur and Han Chinese were very kind and
welcoming. Uighur people I met told me about their feelings regarding jobs (they have more difficulties getting a
job than Han chinese people) and regarding repression (stating that just a week before, some Uighur protesters were
taken to the desert and shot). The Chinese government is quick to call terrorists a few violent people and never
asks itself is : what drives people to violence ? The Chinese government manipulates the news : they don't say
the truth about who starts the violence : is it the police shooting a crowd may be ? If the government would listen
to the Uighur people and treat them equally, surely the relations between both communities would be better.

 

 

dunhuang

Dunhuang : sand-dune on the fringes of the oasis
(although administratively in Gansu province, I feature this photo on this page anyway)

 

Turpan

Mosque in Turpan : the historical capital of the Uighurs, a turkish speaking, muslim people

 

turpan horse drawn cart

Turpan : street life

 

turpan minaret

The afghan style minaret near Turpan


Kashgar street

Uighur kids in the old traditional Uighur part of Kashgar

 

kashgar market

Melons and pasteques at the market in Kashgar

kashgar market

Market day in Kashgar : the "parking lot"

nan bread

Making of nan-bread

 

Karakul lake

Karakul Lake (alt. 3600 m) in the Pamir (my favorite view of the whole trip)


Mustagata

The Mustagata mountain reflecting in Karakul lake
(click here to see more reflection photos and see the full panorama on this page)

 

 


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