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Unbearable Hotness of Being

From Dunhuang it's a two-hour car ride to the train station in Liuyuan, which barely qualifies as a station - one platform, one major street, 2 'restaurants', and a hotel charging by hours for train travellers waiting for their departure. Once on the train, I noticed that my fellow passengers...

written by

Chihyau on June 27, 2010 from Turpan, China

from the travel blog: Backpacking in China

Hot to trot!

Stepping off the bus from Urumqi in the afternoon I was hit by a blast of hot air, it didn't stop! The only thing i can liken it too was a massive dusty hairdrier. Turpan an Oasis town in a basin 200 km south of Urumqi is without doubt one of the hottest places i've ever been equally as hot as...

written by

Dan on May 15, 2008 from Turpan, China

from the travel blog: Been there, Dan that!

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