My Trip to Xinjiang
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Miragedriver
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Nice pictures solarz! If China ever wants to practice in a Mars environment, they have a perfect spot:
solarz
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I know, right? That landscape is truly surreal!
What's even more incredible is that the city roads, markets, and apartment blocks in the earlier pictures were all built on that desert!
Miragedriver
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Do you have more pictures?
Equation
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solarz
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Not for now, these are from my cellphone. My wife's phone has more, but she's still in China right now. She's also got our camera.
I went to Hami. Interesting that you should ask about the security measures. I debated taking a picture of the PAP squad at the train station, but decided it wasn't worth the possibility of trouble. Those guys were armed with assault rifles and frickin' bayonets! Bayonets!
The regular police had some kind of shield + staff/spear setup. Wonder if they got training in phalanx formation?
Funnily enough, the PAP were gone when I went to the train station at night.
Also, every mall entrance had a metal detector, but everybody just walked through it. The posted guard looked bored and didn't even care.