Saturday, October 10, 2009

The Silk Road travelogue part 9 - Urumqi 乌鲁木齐

The next stop along the trip was Urumqi 乌鲁木齐.

This is the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. So we were off again to visit the Uyghur tribe in their yurts.



There is a Heavenly Lake (known as 天池 Tianchi) here too. And the view is heavenly.


Right in the city is a rock, likely to be the remnants of a meteorite.


Next stop is Yining 伊宁.

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