Road trip to the west, my National Day holidays
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In the middle of Gobi, we stayed in a incredible resort hotel, the pricing is around $200, little expensive.
It has good reviews on Trip.com
It has good reviews on Trip.com
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After 300km drive in gobi desert, Now we finally arrived in Mangya. It is one of the most remote cities in China, the closest other city, Ruoqiang, is located 350 kilometres (220 mi) away. In 2018 it had a population of 63,000.
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And since it's quite like Mars, it's our official Mars Landing Bass for research purpose, now it's also for tourism.
Gate of Mars Bass
Marss road, mile stone of 93KM
G315 national expressway, milestone of 1000KM
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And since it's quite like Mars, it's our official Mars Landing Bass for research purpose, now it's also for tourism.
Gate of Mars Bass
Marss road, mile stone of 93KM
G315 national expressway, milestone of 1000KM
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The Mangya is such tiny town, with only 60000 people, but the town still have a morden airport, it uses ARJ21 plane for short range transportation. Actually, the ARJ21 is the perfect plane for western between small cities.
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The hotel in the town is quite old school, but the pricing is OK, only $30.
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Mangnai - Wikipedia
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The hotel in the town is quite old school, but the pricing is OK, only $30.
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https://defenceforumindia.com/threads/road-trip-to-the-west-my-national-day-holidays.83575/page-7 After 300km drive in gobi desert, Now we finally arrived in Mangya. It is one of the most remote cities in China, the closest other city, Ruoqiang, is located 350 kilometres (220 mi) away. In 2018...
Now after passed through the police check point, we are officially entered in Xinjiang.
Our destination is Ruoqiang county, it's the biggest county in China, it covers an area of 198,318 square kilometres (76,571 sq mi) (about twice the size of Zhejiang province and similar to Kyrgyzstan or Senegal), making it the largest county-level division in the country.
Thanks to General Zuo Zong Tang, stablized such big state to us.
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Xinjiang has best highway & service system, and lowest oil price.
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After left Ruoqiang, now we are going to cross the biggest desert in China, also the 10th biggest desert in the world.
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The desert is as large as 440,000km2, the whole area is full of sands. Now the area is almost operated by PetroChina. They built lots of oil fields and the output is the same amount of India annually. They also built two roads cross the whole desert. Each road is at least 500km long.
We rent a retired Benz Unimog track from PetroChina, went into the heart of desert and sand skating for fun.
Taklamakan Desert - Wikipedia
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The desert is as large as 440,000km2, the whole area is full of sands. Now the area is almost operated by PetroChina. They built lots of oil fields and the output is the same amount of India annually. They also built two roads cross the whole desert. Each road is at least 500km long.
New highway opens in China's largest desert - Global Times
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We rent a retired Benz Unimog track from PetroChina, went into the heart of desert and sand skating for fun.
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After passed the check point, now we entered the most important and biggest city in mid Asia, Urumqi, Guinness Book of Records as the most remote city from any sea in the world.
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Xinjiang didn't have terror attack for 12 yrs, the CCP takes care of them very well. Now there are not many armed polices, i only saw this guy with gun for the whole trip, it was in front of Xinjiang musuem.
Although 50% of Xinjiang population are muslims, the Xinjiang Museum almost didn't mention any word about it, i think this is the attitude from CCP, not bad!
Ürümqi - Wikipedia
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Xinjiang didn't have terror attack for 12 yrs, the CCP takes care of them very well. Now there are not many armed polices, i only saw this guy with gun for the whole trip, it was in front of Xinjiang musuem.
Although 50% of Xinjiang population are muslims, the Xinjiang Museum almost didn't mention any word about it, i think this is the attitude from CCP, not bad!
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The famous Grand Bazaar of Urumqi.
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The local restaurant also applied delivery robot, same as mid and east China.
Grand Bazaar was full of people.
The 'Silk Road' bazaar created by China... just for its tourists
The Chinese city of Urumqi was an important part of the Silk Road. However the bazaar to honour that history might as well be in a Disneyland.
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The local restaurant also applied delivery robot, same as mid and east China.
Grand Bazaar was full of people.
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Road trip to the west, my National Day holidays
The salt lakes is also good tourism site:
Still from Grand Bazaar of Urumqi.
Official store from XPCC, by western definition, it's a bad organization ^_^
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Now the final stop of the trip, city of Turpan,
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Then we went home.
Beautiful lady
Thrift shops
Way home, a cool gal rider.
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Then we went home.
Beautiful lady
Thrift shops
Way home, a cool gal rider.
