25/9/26
Left Urumqi for Turpan.
1. This highway route boasts of long stretch their Wind farms !
2. interesting Grape drying houses along the road. Cos Turpan is a Grape City
3. Turpan is very hot in summer ! HOw Flaming Mountains got its name and the filming of the Sunwukong crossing this mountain.
4. More interesting is their ancient city called Tuyugou. The home of the Uighurs. The canals built around their homes are from the Karez wells
5. Karez wells and irrigation system was a well thought out by the Turpan people for survival in ancient times. The place was just too hot. Evaporation rate of water high. Hardly any rainfall. Yet they managed to grow grapes thru this irrigation method! And they stayed alive !
6. The other ancient ruins we went is Jiao He. But this one was built below the clay area. Sunken ancient city to avoid the heat!
7. Urumuqi-Turpan by car took us more than 3 hours. So we decided to buy a train ticket back for RMB78 first class today. ( standard is 48) To cut travel time by 1/2. To see Urumqi city a bit more before we return to spore Tomo!
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Tuyugou!
25/9/26
Left Urumqi for Turpan.
1. This highway route boasts of long stretch their Wind farms !
2. interesting Grape drying houses along the road. Cos Turpan is a Grape City
3. Turpan is very hot in summer ! HOw Flaming Mountains got its name and the filming of the Sunwukong crossing this mountain.
4. More interesting is their ancient city called Tuyugou. The home of the Uighurs. The canals built around their homes are from the Karez wells
5. Karez wells and irrigation system was a well thought out by the Turpan people for survival in ancient times. The place was just too hot. Evaporation rate of water high. Hardly any rainfall. Yet they managed to grow grapes thru this irrigation method! And they stayed alive !
6. The other ancient ruins we went is Jiao He. But this one was built below the clay area. Sunken ancient city to avoid the heat!
7. Urumuqi-Turpan by car took us more than 3 hours. So we decided to buy a train ticket back for RMB78 first class today. ( standard is 48) To cut travel time by 1/2. To see Urumqi city a bit more before we return to spore Tomo!
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Oh Turpan!
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