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!