http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 629) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 5 Aug 2009 17:01:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/the-ancient-city-of-khotan/Khotan is a province 8 days journey in width, subject to the Great Khan. The inhabitants all worship Mahomet. It has cities and towns in plenty, of which the most splendid, and the capital of the kingdom, bears the same name as the province, Khotan. It is amply stocked with the means of life. Cotton grows there in plenty. It has vineyards, estates, and orchards in plenty. The people live by trade and industry; they are not at all warlike. From Travels by Marco Polo The ancient c...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3099) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 5 Apr 2009 11:52:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/the-ruins-of-ancient-niya/The archeological site known as Niya (hereafter referred to as the Ruins of Ancient Niya), which lies deep in the Takla Makan Desert on the southern rim of the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, has been called the Pompeii of the East, owing to Niya having been buried, quite suddenly, as had ancient Pompeii ages earlier. Or so it seems, for no one really knows what caused the residents of Niya to abandon their city in such a panic that they even left their dogs tethere...]]>Sat 29 Aug 2008 4:15:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/bar/hetian-night-market/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 592) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 29 Aug 2008 3:55:00 GMTcactushttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/shop/hetian-jade-culture-and-commercial-street/HeTian jade-culture commercial street, located in the downtown area of Hetian, has the reception capacity of more than 200 visitors who want to do sight-seeing and go shopping at the same time. The street, featuring the world-famous HeTian jade(also named Nephrite), is a aggregate market which shows special jade culture of Hetian. And you could get some genuine HeTian jades at reasonable price....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 593) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 29 Aug 2008 3:29:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/shop/hetian-brand-bazaar/Hetian brand bazaar is a large integrated bazaar in Hetian. It offers not only the national commodities, smallwares, but also provides some medicinal materials, fruits, and tools for agricultural production, different kinds of live stocks and faggots from Uyghur (one race in China). There are also lots of local special and delicious cuisines, fresh and dried fruits, porcelains and lacquered wares, and some other high quality merchandise, famous tobaccos and teas come from other places. There ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 630) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 29 Aug 2008 1:23:00 GMTcactushttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/fig-tree-king/The Fig Tree King, located In the courtyard of Laykah　township government, Hetian County, 22 kilometers from the city of Hetian, is about 4 meters high and takes a place of 0.1 hectares. This is an important tourist destination in Hetian. The crown of this tree looks like a huge but chic green mushroom. It is five hundreds years old, planted in 1507. It bears fruits for three times from June to October every year, and the golden yellow fruits of it are big, fresh, sweet and bright. It totally be...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 624) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 28 Aug 2008 22:08:00 GMTcactushttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/hetian-museum/Hetian Museum is famous history museum, opened to public in October, 2005, covering an area of 3.4 square kilometers. There are 9066 pieces of historic relics are on show in the museum, among which one relics is under national protection and over 400 pieces of cultural relics were excavated from the ancient cities of Niya, Mallikurwatur, and Yotkan. The exhibitions include colored potteries, ancient coins, silk and woolen textiles, documents on wood slips, clay and wood sculptures, and mummie...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 708) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 20 Aug 2008 21:17:00 GMTlinnazhenghttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/bar/hetian-bazaar/Hetian bazaar which covers an area of 118,352 square meters is one of the largest markets in Hetian. Every Sunday, most citizens of Hetian rush into the market. At that time, you can see many folk song and dance performances in this bazaar. People enjoy dancing and singing happily. A kind of folk performance named Mashraf which is very popular is performed almost every week there. I think that you will enjoy the native folk performances....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3321) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 20 Aug 2008 21:04:00 GMTlinnazhenghttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/restaurant/lokman-restaurant/Lokman Restaurant is the best restaurant in Hetian town which provides Uyghur food with a menu in English, Uyghur and Chinese. It is not only a restaurant but also has a bakery counter and sell bottled pomegranate juice. The polo (primitively means eating with fingers), rice dish with lamb and vegetables and the Langman( a dish of hand-pulled noodles) are its most famous dishes....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3323) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 19 Aug 2008 23:30:00 GMTaaronhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/restaurant/night-market-of-hetian/The Night Market of Hetian is in the south of Unity Square. It is the busiest Night market in Hetian. In this market, there are so many stalls which provide quite a variety of delicious foods and snacks and fruits like Kebabs (kewap in Uyghur), nut candies, noodles, roast chicken, roast lamb, sheep-head soup, water melons, Hami melons and so on. You don't needn any menu, just pick up what you want and the vendors will cook for you....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3322) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 19 Aug 2008 22:50:00 GMTandy yenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/restaurant/tuhongjiang-aji-uighur-ancient-restaurant/This restaurant is located at a remote place. However, it is very easy to be found because of its good business. It is an ethnic restaurant, but it is different from other common ethnic restaurant. The dishes and tea there have its strong characters. It is mainly famous for its ancient. Roast chicken and Braised pork in lamb tripe are its most famous dishes. And if you want to try its braised pork in lamb tripe, you have to order it before 4 hours. Because it is a Uyghur restaurant, drinking alc...]]>Tue 11 Aug 2008 1:53:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/festival/hetian-songs-and-dances/Thu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/food/greasy-tower-pie/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 626) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/mallikurwatur-ruins/Thesite is at the fringe of the Taklimakan Desert, some 17 kilometers west of the Luopu county. Mallikurwarur was Uygur language, which means White Castle. Majority of the ruins are buried underground in the deep sands. The only trace of the city is a broken section of a city wall in the north. The wall took shape of an arc and is 100 meters long, 2.60 meters high and 1.6 meters thick. It was built with adobes of different sizes. It is very interesting that all the adobes were carved with stra...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3101) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/mazhatage-ancient-castle/Hetian Mazhatage ancient castle is also called Red and White mountain by the local people, while in 《Song History. Biography of Yutian》, it is named Mountain to the Holy land. During the Han and Tang dynasties, it is an important traffic hinge linking all the directions. The mountain originates from the west of the great Takalamagan desert and stops short when it reaches the Hetian river. The mountain has quite boundless and unique natural view with the white counterfort to its north and the red...]]>Thu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTdianahttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/food/nangkeng-flour-made-food/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3100) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/ruins-of-rewake-buddha-temple/Rewake means pavilion in Uigur language. Since there stands many clay towers within the stupa, so it got the name Rewake, or Luowake, Yaowake, Lawake. It is a group of Buddha Temples with a tower as the centre, and is consisted of a tower in a square yard and the temples outside of the yard. The tower faces the south, and there are two door-shaped gap in the middle of the southern end and the western corner, each side of the yard is 45 meters long. There is a small temple outside of the east...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3102) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/attraction/sangzhu-petroglyphy/Sangzhu petroglyphy is engraved on a piece of rock in the village of Wuerqi in Pishan County, Hetian. The picture faces directly towards the riverbank and has entered the lower range of Kunlun mountain. It is more than 3 meters long, and 1.3 meters high. On the picture, there are many portraits of human being with different postures: some were bending the bow and about to shoot, some were walking following the horses, and still others were riding on the horses; there are pictures of animals, mos...]]>Thu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/bar/cultural-center-of-hetian-city/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 440) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/xinjiang/hetian/product/hetian-carpets/ Hetian carpets belong to oriental hand-made carpet system. They are produced mainly from Hetian Prefecture, so they are called “Hetian carpet”. The carefully chosen raw materials and the fine weaving art is the major reason why they are so much favored by consumers all over the world. The fiber of the wool is not too thick or too thin with great elasticity and silk-like luster. It is not likely to be distorted, and the wool would not drop, quite comfortable to be touched. So the carpet made of...]]>