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Xinjiang’s other famous dish is whole roasted lamb. It is what it is. The lamb is covered with a mixture of egg, green onion, pepper and other spices including cumin and roasted for an hour. When it’s done, a red silk ribbon is tied around its head and celery (or something green and [...]
Urumqi (“oo-rum-chee”) is my Gotham City. Our first look was at night, and it was eerie how the city’s skyscrapers and towers just rise up out of nowhere. Plus it never got dark. The night sky seemed to stay a weird kind of twilight. The capital of Xinjiang is home to 1.6 million people. The [...]
Here’s an awfully cute kid. We gave him chocolate. He gave me this face. (PS: Someone asked me today if I took all these photos. Indeed I did.)
Yurt. So much fun to say. Come on, try it. Yurt. Such a quickstep of a word. Yurt yurt yurt. Fun fun fun. The bumpy road leading to the Heavenly Mountains are lined with yurts. The structures are the traditional home of nomads but on this road, the only herds the nomads are looking for [...] From Beijing, we flew four hours to Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The city would wait. The Heavenly Mountains were calling. Known in Chinese as “Tian Shan,” the mountain range stretches 1,500 km across central Asia. From Urumqi, it took an hour by bus to reach the mountains – or at least the admission office. Then we [...]
More than 2,000 years ago, merchants laden with silk, ivory and later gunpowder, had only three main trading routes linking China to the West. Caravans travelled to today’s Middle East region via Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The roads weaving through dangerous mountain ranges and desolate desert regions became known as [...] |
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