Hello! It’s been a long time since our last post after leaving China and we have since rested, visited two ‘stan countries and taken a flight to the “balcony of Europe” – the small but beautiful Georgia. The Central Asia we saw was really interesting, the people who were once nomadic have been influenced over…
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So – it turns out that China has it’s own little Persian/turkish region! It’s called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and it’s massive. It takes up 1/6th of China with a total area of 1.6 million square km! Western Australia is 2.5 million square km, so while it isn’t as big as WA, it is…
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From the beautiful south of China we boarded a sleeper train and headed north to the mega, yet surprisingly “chilled out” 12 million people city of Chengdu. We were lucky to share our train compartment with a man from Urumqi who spoke zero English, but was determined to communicate with us anyway (Matt loved this…
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