Budget Accommodation Hostels Asia China Urumqi
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Urumqi (乌鲁木齐, ئۈرۈمچی), also written as Ürümqi, is the largest city and capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. For centuries Urumqi has been a stopping point along the Silk Road. Until recently Urumqi was a small trading post in the desert nestled next to the nearby mountains.
From the Urumqi Travel Guide
In general, I don't really like to stay in White Birch International Hostel. The price is bit too high for what I received. I don't know if any of you can find an accomdation under 40 RMB in Urumqi, the same price can allow me live in a nice hotel in Kashgar. ... more
Looking for people to go to silk road of China in Sept 2006
other places along the route such as Urumqi, Turpan, Dunhuang and Xian. I plan to go for about three ...
cruising china soon
Hey im teaching in china and the term finishes in july and will be doing a bit of traveling all round starting in shandong as thats where i am and heading north to urumqi and maybe further west, then making the way down to lijiang and yangshou etc anyone keen for a buddy or got any good spots or ideas i ...
Train from Beijing to Lhasa
All they have said is that prices will be in line with other Chinese proces (i.e. no premium). Basically, find a journey of similar legnth in terms of distance (Beijing - Kunming may work, but i'm guessing here. Somewhere like Urumqi may be better as it's a long one), plonk it into the railguide at www ...
The Wild Wild West of China – Xingjiang
. After Kashgar, the other cities in XingJiang were rather disappointing. Urumqi, the capital ...
Posted in While We Are Out... by jhongny
Tibet
På vei fra Urumqi til Chengdu ser vi Tibet-platået under oss. ...
Posted in KINA by kina2008
Xinjiang
'Tuovists' are welcome in Kashgar, Xinjiang 'Central Asia International Grand Bazaar at Kashgar'! Since the riots in July 2008, riot police maintain a regular law-and-order presence in Urumqi... here attending an outdoor ethnic dance performance. ...
Posted in SILK ROAD - CHINA by spock15