Xinjiang, Silk Road trip by Tom Carter

Date: 2008-9-7 22:42:00 by chinatravel Tags: Silk Road

"He's from Pakistan.""No, no! He's Japanese." A lively group of Uyghurs orbiting around me at the Hotan marketplace in southern Xinjiang were vociferously debating the nationality of the 196cm foreigner standing before them.

I am in fact a first-generation American of a hybrid Scandinavian-Mediterranean-Hispanic lineage, my dark brown features and unkempt trav

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