Urumqi / Wulumuqi Urumqi is the capital of and largest city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The following description is excerpted from a writeup by Jonathan of
Hualing Market Jonathan (0) Just north of Hongshan is Hualing Market, reputedly Asia’s largest indoor household goods mart. The main buildings contain thousands of shops, with everything from cheap plastic buckets, to 5 tonne s...
Nightly Summer Market Jonathan (0) During the summer months there is a nightly market on Wuyi Lu. While the products on offer are nothing special, the food market is a great place to eat and watch the action. Things get going about 8....
Geology Museum Jonathan (0) Not far from the Museum, on Youhao Lu is the well-organised Geology museum. Though the exhibits have no English descriptions you still get a good idea of how resource rich Xinjiang is. Perhaps the mo...
Regional Museum Jonathan (0) If you only have time to see one thing in Urumqi, then a trip to the Regional Museum is the place to go. Centrepiece is an extremely well preserved collection of mummified human remains discovered in...
Urumqi Diwopu Airport (URC) Jonathan writes: Urumqi’s new airport, completed only last year offers flights to most provincial and regional capitals, strangely absent being Hong Kong....
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