Turpan August 2007

Turpan - Tulufan to the Chinese - was the destination of our epic train journey. It's the hottest city in China apparently, and was 40 degrees some days. But it's not humid so it was fine. It's in a different time zone to Beijing - or it should be, but the whole of China operates on the same time. So 10pm in Turpan is 10pm in Beijing. Because we were going West it made for great light nights, and also meant that the sun was hottest at 2pm to 4 pm!

A traditional Uygur home

Evening entertainment

The buildings are for drying grapes

Many of the houses in the countryside had these kind of coutyards.

A cemetery

Shower juice.....read the label