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Silk Road: Ürümqi


Silk Road: Ürümqi
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Copyright: Dietrich Meyer (meyerd) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 97 W: 15 N: 608] (1490)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-02
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Olympus SP500UZ
Map: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-03-31 9:24
Viewed: 376
Points: 2
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Silkroad travels: Ürümqi

The railway is a crucial link to the world for this remote city. The brand new railway station (to the right side of the picture) is organized like an airport: the long waiting queue moves rapidly for the ticket counters and check-ins. Then follows the baggage control with x-ray machines before your are led to your gate (not the platform). The waiting at your gate is again exactly like at the airport. After a while the "sluice" opens, boarding pass checks and boarding follows. There is a long distance train about every 20 minutes in the direction of either Bejing, Kashgar or Almaty. The personnel is polite, efficient and helpful. I watched, completely fascinated by all this.

The railway station is situated in an Uighur quarter of town. Here the clash between a rural, traditional Uighur society and the up-and go modernist fraction of city dwellers was evident. The social contrast reminded me of similar conflicts in my own country, Switzerland, in the early 20th century when the modernist protestants in the cities completely won over the more rural conservative catholics economically.

I put the mark of "Map:View" on the railway station, the long blue roofs cover the platforms.
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  • Buin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 3356 W: 0 N: 6617] (23110)
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Hallo Dieter!
Hier ist Dein Kommentar dem Foto zumindest ebenbürtig. Alles hochinteressant! Sind das wirklich Warteschlangen? Unglaublich!
Auch in China scheint zu gelten "Wirb - oder stirb!"
Schön finde ich das Halteverbotsschild - aber mit dem Zusatztext habe ich Probleme ...
Grüße aus dem Moor (bis zum Kinn! ;-)
Frank

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