China Travel Stories

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 travel whiskers often causing confusion amo ... View Details

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Inner Mongolia, China by Tom Carter

Date: 2008-9-7 22:42:00 by chinatravel; Tags: Inner Mongolia

In the summer it is a scalding expanse of desert, in the spring verdant grassland; but in the winter, Inner Mongolia is a white kinom few travelers, beyong the occasional Mongol nomad, brave to enter. Indeed, the traditionally nomadic lifestyle of the native Mongolian reflects the region's unforgiving climate. To quote the usually intrepid Lonely Planet guidebook chapter on Inner Mongolia, from ... View Details

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Yunnan Experience

Date: 2008-9-7 22:41:00 by chinatravel; Tags: Yunnan

While China's northeastern parts such as Beijing and Shandong may represent the historical heart of the People's Republic, it's in the west where we find a unique cultural diversity that is so attractive to travelers. Nowhere else in the country might one uncover the splendor of China's varied minority population than 'south of the clouds,' Yunnan. Situated on the southwestern corner of four othe ... View Details

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