Friday, April 13, 2007

and nevertheless already pictures!

completely unexpectedly! I am a network genius! thus can of the impressionen current xinjiang round trip you you already about some marvelous please.
still I am in hotan, tomorrow go it into taklamakan.
starting from Friday night am I again in urumqi.








the large travels - part 2

hello together!
still there I am! in kashgar, a correctly correctly fine city! after five minutes I already met someone on the road out urumqi. and the best: tomorrow Sunday is - day of the camel! no, but it is a giant bazaar with approx. 150,000 humans. and there I will buy and mirror-image-eat myself a camel from it to prepare. perhaps also not.
altogether is ours travel so far very eventfully, maintenance SAM and full new experiences. unfortunately can I mean whole pictures nevertheless only in urumqi again in the net to probably place, I am glad that I have here at all time to write something times briefly.
in the latter are we meet the whole silk road of korla (the city after the unbelievable mountains) over kuqa and aksu (awat with excursion to the relationship of guhar in) entlanggebrettert in our supervehicle. so far there is already over 2000 km on schlagloechergespickten highways, occasionally interrupted of modest police patrols, those our driver once 500 yuan (!) unbuttoned. but the next do not meet become more erholsamer, we must across taklamakan shortly back into the north. there it is called stores of water carries forward.
jut, I must slowly back in the hotel, which is by the way the old British consulate, who is occupied times with the silk road, that would be allowed that to know.
I say good-bye with the best wish!

wrong does to me

I can unfortunately high-load no pictures here! sorry, there must you probably some more wait. I see in addition that it fast go, perhaps already tomorrow?

the large travels!

round trip through xinjiang. that means: old oasis cities, wild landscape, high mountains with snow-covered culminate, friendly and curious humans and endless, schlaglöchergespickte roads. really, it may be that the Chinese are proud on x-thousand kilometers again asphalted roads in the year. but notice: Chinese bitumen is not German bitumen! to know completely importantly. after 13 grant drive of urumqi to the beautiful sayran lake (?) I was therefore finished totally. therefore I saw more kebabtier only living. one grants later, than it came on the table, there I had fallen asleep. into marvelously cosy kasachischen jurte with nomaden, which feast in the summer their cattle on in the mountains (2,100 m) hold. outside it has strongly gewittert, beautifully to to fall asleep. however I became later awake short time. by two hires.
1. again once I had to divide my bed with someone. this time it was a mouse. no, no sweet mouse - probable a uighurische quilting mouse.
2. joschua came also into the tent. he apparent loves the genuine, genuine adventure and meant themselves outside one volume-tore tightens to have. well, there joy arises, so 200 km far away from the next city. but one slept first times. at the next tomorrow then an unforgettable experience. primarily for joschua, whose was supplied foot by an age-old kasachischen medicine man. as it looked (S. photo) and as I joschuas cry interpret it the volumes with its hands properly again zusammengeknotet. subsequently, there were one egg-salt-connected. finished! and again once as info. at dorstener physician parliamentary group. price for this treatment: 2 euro! and free of charge to it one mixes imprints! also interesting then the breakfast! I schlürfe mean milk dte peaceful, when the sheep head comes on the table. it looks one quarter of an hour later in such a way, as if a horde/hurdle would have rumgeknabbert piranhas to it - lightning clean! ah, not completely, those nose is penetrate-remained. why actually?? although I understood it already nearly as insolence that none of the eyes was offered to me.
the really interesting at this lake is that it does not fish gives and one cannot dip apparent also. there was probably already many research there, but one does not know so correctly much probably yet about conditions. altogether it was a very beautiful night, there unfortunate that we in the morning already again drove on. whereby our vehicle is also the hammer. ümüt saved - at the correct end? a car for eight people, but more does not go also really purely - the luggage was banished on the genuinly Chinese porter. I give still maximally two to that meet, then he will say good-bye. already on the first day we had merry situations.
now (15.) if we are in the city yili, evenly have we one let us stroll over a large bazaar made, were with the mosque and in the city park. there there is a museum, where much is told about uighurische history. for example over (enlightened up) an aircraft crash of the entire government of the again created republic east turkestan in the year 1949. those were officially from Mao to Peking loaded and here out yili broken open…
and without government east turkestan naturally no large chance had more. very interesting museum thus. there I have by the way (times again…) hard TIG discovers!

like that, now is Monday. I am in korla, i.e. I am heal over tian shan come. what an experience! approximately 650 km stretch by the mountains, of it for about 200 km on over 3000 m, altogether were we 2 meet on the way, pure running time about 20 grant. that cut counts you out… (I white already believe I, why ümüt itself ne week discharged)
but: our hypervehicle held out! and that might give correctly beautiful photos!
and meanwhile I had really all weather in the last two months! last week still nearly 45 degrees in the shade, next to last night had snowed it in the mountains - accordingly ass cold it was on the passport!
well well, now in korla we are again the wild at the northern edge, but it rained even here this morning strongly! but it was correctly wonderful starting from noon, completely clear air. we made culture for something and looked at us an old city. and tomorrow it goes already again, there continues to drive we eastward the old silk road along. there there is everyone mixes to discover. probably then a new report comes to the situation from the hometown of my host.
oh, the most important in the end! according to one (internal?) dmt organization (actually goes on bodo goerlichs cap?) the Chinese people divides itself as follows: a third wuselt around, a third eats, and a third sleeps. sounds so far good, however I would like to let my own observations flow hereby and supplement. it must be quartered. very urgently the quarter is missing solders and welds!
that had to be still said. machts well and leave the fingers of the sheep eyes…

pictures out turpan








sky or hell?

to two meet turfan are enough, in order to visit everything once in the fast run and pull a murderer program through. but gladly I return to this place again.
day 1 and day 2 differ noticeably from each other. first takes place with an unrestrained Chinese group of travels, the latter with friendly localwell-informed (former) students. on the first day naturally again once all prejudices are confirmed. a singular rumgewusel, is it with steps out of the bus, during the mass treatment in estimated 48 between stops with selected and not at all abzockerischen (yawn), guarantees genuine jade, junk and klüngel selling tourifallen…
I had however nevertheless to slam shut (to thus buy), because these shops am believe I the only possibility picture postcards to buy. thus I will meet in the next thus maps to write.
which is still noticeable at the group. the Chinese did not come out xinjiang, and apparent still no uighuren had seen. now they got tourist demonstrations of dance and singing, of free grape-rehearse and free melon - handed in traditional garbs. thus naturally no picture of equivalent humans develops with the Chinese, on the contrary has which from zoo. not beautifully. to that extent I was also quite glad that we drove in the evening not again back to urumqi (the common tourist is too hot it in turfan), but we one night in the hotel remained.
on the second day there was then a very competent line of ali, to which before five meet to dad had become and accordingly well English spoke. a goal completely particularly did it to me. tuyuk valley, a valley about one grants from turfan far away, in the entrance of the valley with much fresh water gives it a very old city with beautiful mosque, in the ravine is deeper age-old excavates with buddhistischen wandmalereien. this place had somewhat separated, mystisches and nearly paradiesisches. beautifully.
otherwise over turfan old, enormous ruin fields of old capitals are, to gone down rich. one visits the whole under the sengenden suns.
besides I experienced something over the emergence of mankind. there was a married couple (brother and sister). in a clay/tone furnace humans became too short to create, whereby the Chinese had exactly the correct color, the black in it-remained for a long time and we white. nevertheless does sense make, or? but it continues! the sister was able besides everything to melt. thus it could once grounds from the fall to save. because one of the four supporting columns was broken (poured malheur!). there it melted from stones replacement and renewed the column. this was however somewhat shorter than the others, and that is the reason, why today in China all rivers flow off after southeast. that is so simple!
now I would like to write something briefly to the photos. on one see to her a goat. this creature stood briefly before heat death, assumes I. a small suspicion falls on hard TIG. perhaps could you are in do sew and of more kebabtier by the ruin city be pulled??
in addition I can present you at this picture my in the meantime unfassbareb Chinese knowledge. the parking lot sign proves this place clearly as parking lot for sweating kebabtiere with merry-multicolored trailers!
so, enough for the moment. I must still ne mix make today. ümüt an interview date in to watch television later, there goes along I and looks themselves the whole times from sews on. and tomorrow' s goes then on large travels through xinjiang. who wants to after-pursue on the map: we start the city after northwest, there lie in approximately 800 km yili. then we go back again, something south of urumqi after korla, then the 500km-wüstenstrasse by the pure taklamakan to the south. there we look at ourselves to the west following several oases, among them for example hotan. we come then in the west of xinjiang into the secret capital of the uighuren, to kashgar. subsequently, we continue to drive to northeast and come to aksu, into the city of ümüts family. and then' s will go again to urumqi, to thousands of kilometers…

dissolution of the mystery and more

I wish a beautiful!
I just am hell on ground escaped. or was it the paradies? if, then is it there very very hot. that let you be said. I was on two-daily trip in turfan, a crying robbing oasis about 200 km of urumqi. and at the same time ists the warmest place in China - anyhow in the summer. temperature in the shade today at least 42 degrees. comes well to tomorrow! has as consequence that one liquid in itself in-run all day long lets and on klo does not have. actually completely practically. and: I used no sunning cream! I will place photos tomorrow in the net, which will be worthwhile itself correctly, because gives it there really very beautiful locates!
still fast to the mystery. the winner is tim! the father was somewhat too slow. other suggestions were meant surely also good, but finally I had introduced myself sowas as - here the dog is buried -. although my physician of the confidence with its sheep legs made me somewhat thoughtful. but know their which? in August am I again there, then I check times more exactly. perhaps ists genuinly filled with garlic and refines slowly before itself?
thus, I remain with best greet until tomorrow! good night!

pictures of the sky lake (unfortunately without suns…)




here current pictures from the today's day.

still which to the proverb: so with difficulty ists nevertheless also not, or? do you employ you all? and which is at all with the university people, except micha and robi? you are gladly that their finally any longer do not have to bear me, correct?

@anne, thus sister heart: ridiculously, you with your tetrahedron…

to more text does not hand it degrees, I still ate the day nix. now must believe more kebabtier (S. photo) to!

meal - of you joerg

I am from the wild back - part one



a man went into the wild and came out again! (however strubbelig and times again bärtig)

the wild imprints some fast from.
detailed stories there are at the telephone or with larger inquires in one the next spent. at present I am however very busy - sorry.
thus, loosely' s goes:

1. in the wild is quite very warm it. however I played rain man and gezaubert on the first day a covered sky, cold temperatures around 25° and rain drop. to and for itself ne beautiful thing, not however if I thereby in such a way spend itself and in move me place that I a rather centralmagnificent cold catch myself. did not come so well.
otherwise it can be won quite properly to color, now needs I probably really not more to eincremen itself.

2. more knaller! see also photo. thus one of those, it will it notice. this concerns a profit play. the good old of schmidteinander proverb research! which proverb hides itself behind the photo? to the other pictures also do proverbs occur to you?
I am genuinly of believe dropped. studis do not have at all understood which I found so merry…! I have so a thing really ever in mine do not live experienced! particularly since you must present it that the next place 100 km is distant and this photo developed in the midst of of close bushes, where ever in principle a people soul should not have put a foot. perhaps also ever doesn't someone have??

3. wrong announces! ne other history, degrees history was more knaller was only simply unbelievable.

4. presents you, you goes into the enormous wild. to a completely arbitrary place. and everywhere already times someone seems to have been. I did not have anywhere the feeling be really alone. it was quiet, and in fact was also nobody there, but everywhere were keep in track from humans. garbage, waste, bone,…
and which still?
me at one time a student presses an oblong thing into the hand. dark grey color, a kind mixture from plastics and rubber, ends metallically.
after short superior and an investigation has I much sachte and carefully the good piece on the soil put and wanted me on extremely quiet resoles to remove, there takes themselves the next student hell part and throws it into the wild inside. mine live genuinly nearly on me by-pulled. thus leaves myself believes I however best differentiated between Germans and Chinese uighuren to explain. those do not think over consequences.

5. people! forget the thing with the refrigerators!! everything is only one mär the refrigerator industry. (thus as with winter tires…). meat and eggs and so which. nevertheless great the wild holds itself in! after approximately 4 the meat taste will meet… however hey, I by the way lives very intensively still!

6. I with a nashornkäfer mine sleeping bag divided. in addition live into wild different amusing insects. those are sometimes a little large. are there actually no queues in China?? nix!

7. the shitting house competition one breaks off with immediate effect. I think for finding however the first and second place. who wants, once the public toilet at the bus station visits in kuerla. photo no longer made… probably says everything. the thing becomes too delicate me. perhaps küre I from now on the most beautiful eyes of the women.
@ hard TIG: I yesterday drank a liquor with the father of parida. them are probably degrees in Hamburg…

8. I wants to Bochum totally!

Saturday, April 7, 2007

do not know perhaps yet at all all…

correctly, I must still which loose will.how geil it is actually to possess an official visa!in my passport it is located completely clearly in it that I end to the yearly in China remain may. only 40 euro at handling charge cost. the standard price is for a half year. we inquired from fun times, how expensive it would have been, if I had planned flown as. 50 euro per day would have cost me, in addition history with the health certificate would have for a long time rausgezögert itself. was probably the better decision like that…

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before it goes into the wild…

a beautiful Saturday together!a man went into the wild and did not come out not. the name can so approximate be translated taklamakan. I however have there different plans, because I do not have desire, as a bear tiger naked man in an earth hole under shrubs to live and a schweigegelübde keep.ümüt it said to me degrees that he saw me last night on the road. I was with mehmet to eat on the way, when we met three of its students. naturally I had to hold for a mandatory photo (I believed the next time require I money), as if ümüt us unnoticed by me in the taxi happened. yesterday all foreign students were invited to a trip. a goal was nashan, or south mountain, pointed to wasserfällen and kasachischen jurten a valley in the high mountains with full. we were certain 100 people, of it to the half of Americans, approximately who make a summer language course here. besides give it in addition, many former students, which here-remained and small children had bring along. thus I became acquainted with again many people. per day there is however not in cut felt 20000. goes, because then I would have already had to become acquainted with some doubly. in any case passes it frequently that someone says, he/they me already there or there would then have seen. I cannot return then always…on the trip yesterday there were a fresh lamb and some chickens for us. those were allowed to eat up to then innocently from the green grass and drink the clear mountain water. thus the meat had a exquisiten taste! at all one slaughters much here. on the university area a great many humans, student, teacher, the whole families live. and in the Muslim families one worries oneself occasionally evenly around the own meat supply. yesterday I did not run myself nothing you anything out ümüts dwelling, when beside the entrance of the house an attained full growth goat had to let it live. with approx. 35°C then one expenditure-feasts, one divides and one touches. the head watches. approximately 4 times on day I see on the road also kid, mutton as whole roast on the motorcycle into the restaurant to drive. refrigerators are generally not so common here apparent, the meat are to stop outside because of the grill rum. but I imagine then that all people nourish themselves in such a way here, and there can I also. tastes also outstanding and hardens the stomach terribly off!as I rose today it strongly rained. there I got times something fresh air into my room. then I washed and in the room distributed my laundry with uighurischem detergent. tomorrow I need for my travel somewhat laundry. there I drive for ten meet into the wild. ümüt and a few student comes along, we maps then pappeln and leaves themselves suns on the bellows to seem. apropos: I have that yesterday also made with the trip. jörg had times again along-thought! I am already rather brown and from therefore without cream into the high mountains had driven. naja, who to hear does not want, feels evenly today. stupidly only that stop is off tomorrow into the real wild. perhaps do I buy equal on bazar ten meters white cloth and do wrap myself in it?many greet to all!