Urumqi skyline
Sign in Uygur, Chinese, and English lettering
A small house squeezed between some large buildings
Old man
Man with pullcart
Uygur bookstore
Near the Grand Bazaar
Melon seller (the melons were delicious)
Shoeshine boy
Sidewalk drummers
Boys playing cards
Sidewalk grill
Coal stove on a side street. In this part of China, coal still seems to be a common source of energy in homes and roadside businesses such as this one.
The Ethnic Culture Street
Absolut Islam
I came across lots of stores like this, selling.... well, look at the pictures
Mao being nice to ethnic minorities
"Taxes connect you, me, and everyone; A stronger country relies on everybody."
Uygur knicknacks for sale
Dried fruit
A popular food in Xinjiang is barbecued meat, in this case lamb, usually cooked on a sidewalk grill. It is delicious.
A coal-burning factory north of Urumqi. Coal is a very common form of industrial energy in this part of China.
Near Heavenly Lake in the Tianshan Mountains
Heavenly Lake, Tianshan Mountains, about 150 km north of Urumqi.
Heavenly Lake, with snow-capped peaks of the Tianshan Mountains in the background.
A truck passes a wind farm between Urumqi and Turpan. Strong winds frequently blow in this area, where there is a gap in the Tianshan Mountain range. This makes it an ideal place for harnessing wind power. The wind farm at Dabancheng, near here, claims to be the largest wind farm in Asia.
Camels on a hillside in the desert east of the city of Turpan, a city about 210 km southeast of Urumqi. These camel's job is to pose for photographs with tourists visiting the nearby Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves.
Remains of the ancient city of Jiaohe, near the modern city of Turpan. Jiaohe was occupied from the second century BCE untilthe end of the thirteenth century CE.
Construction cranes in central Turpan, a city of about 260,000 people. After visiting several of China's cities, I have concluded that the construction crane could make a strong claim to being China's national symbol.
The Uyghur people, the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang, and overwhelmingly Muslim. Mosques such as this in Urumqi one dot the landscape in much of the region.
A desert hillslope near Turpan.
Ruins of an ancient Silk Road town, near Turpan,
