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Silk Road: Ürümqi
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Dietrich Meyer (meyerd)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 97 W: 15 N: 608]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (1490) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-08-31 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Camera: Olympus SP500UZ |
| Map: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-04-03 0:24 |
| Viewed: 391 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Silkroad travels: Ürümqi (=Wülümeqi)
this is the same city like the one in the pictures shown earlier, Ürümqi!
The picture was taken from a multistory building besides the railway station, to which the blue roofs belong. That is what I mean with "rural population": the Uighurs and other Turk people living in this area cook with wood, have backyards or courts where fruit trees grow and chicken roam. They seem to be living from handicraft and trade. But I saw a sizable number of people commuting to downtown offices as well.
How the poor and the rich, the Turks and the Chinese, the rural and the city dwellers, the Moslems, Buddhists and infidels all coexist I don't pretend to understand but they sure do. Xinjiang Autonomous province visibly makes an effort: all official signs are in two languages and scriptures, there are TV programs in Chinese and in Uighur; in banks and administrative buildings the employess mix; there are mosques and a Buddhist center that are frequented.
Historically, the province was a short-lived independent Muslim Khanate a hundred and thirty years ago and from then on a sort of ping pong ball between Russia and China. It was only after the second World War that the fragmented Chinese empire was pieced together again. |
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- Buin
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 3356 W: 0 N: 6617]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-g.gif)
(23110) - [2008-04-03 1:52]
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Guten Morgen Dieter!
Toll, wie der Kontrast zwischen alt und neu, zwischen Moderne und Tradition hier herauskommt. Interessant, wie die Bahnlinie in der Mitte fast in der Umgebung verschwindet. Zusammen mit Deinem Kommentar wieder 1a-Information.
Grüße aus dem Moor! ;-)
Frank
