Wide Eyes, Wider World

Thoughts, narratives, essays, and poems on Going Places.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"--Marcel Proust
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Showing posts with label Who Is Chinese. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Who Is Chinese. Show all posts

Monday, August 6, 2007

Exploring the Gobi Desert, Part 1: Turpan

Turpan (which is "Tulufan" in Mandarin) is an oasis town in the middle of the Gobi Desert, about three hours by car from Urumqi. T...

Friday, July 20, 2007

Kashgar

After bidding smoggy, huge, and oh-so-very-Chinese Beijing adieu, my parents and I boarded a flight for Xinjiang. Xinjiang (which means ...

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