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Day One Hundred Nine, May 11, 2011

[caption id="attachment_533" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Urumqi to Kashgar"][/caption] Today was a day of planes, airports, cars and more airports. I traveled over flatlands, grasslands, rivers, snow capped mountains, deserts and finally arrived at night in Kashgar after a few hours break in Urumqi. The first odd thing you meet in this place is that the locals, 70% Uyghur and other minorities, follow their own time zone, while all official clocks are set to Beijing time. So at any moment you have to be aware if a person is speaking to you about local time (which is 2 hours earlier) or official time. The languages spoken are not dialects of Chinese, they are completely different language and written in arabic letters. Exploring starts after a short night's sleep.. [caption id="attachment_534" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="over deserts and snowy mountains"][/caption]

3 responses to “Day One Hundred Nine, May 11, 2011”

  1. Great photos! How interesting that people follow their own time zone! Do think I could get away with that reasoning when I’m late for work?!

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