Train - Across China
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Travel 3,000 Miles Through China’s Wondrous Wild West
" The cars are well appointed, with purple and blue seats, floral tablecloths, and lace curtains depicting the promise of camels and mountains in the west. Each car has a hot-water dispenser, and the salty aroma of instant noodle soup fills the air.
The staff are impeccably dressed (blue for controllers, who check tickets and maintain the cleanliness of the cars, and purple for food vendors), and the whole operation is “army-like organized,” Paley says. Each stop is only 10 to 15 minutes, and while technically passengers can get off to stretch their legs, “you are looked on very seriously by the staff,” Paley says. “They don’t want you to stray...” "
From Hong Kong to Urumqi (Xinjiang province), it is one of the longest train journeys in the world—2,910 miles (4,683 Km) across China, in over 50 hours. The enormous resources from Xinjiang (cotton, minerals, oil) usually go East, while the people (mostly Han Chinese) from the mainland come the other way, towards Xinjiang (a province traditionally inhabited by Muslim Uighurs), aka China’s Wild West.
Full story here : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/travel-3-000-miles-through-chinas-wondrous-wild-west/
" The cars are well appointed, with purple and blue seats, floral tablecloths, and lace curtains depicting the promise of camels and mountains in the west. Each car has a hot-water dispenser, and the salty aroma of instant noodle soup fills the air.
The staff are impeccably dressed (blue for controllers, who check tickets and maintain the cleanliness of the cars, and purple for food vendors), and the whole operation is “army-like organized,” Paley says. Each stop is only 10 to 15 minutes, and while technically passengers can get off to stretch their legs, “you are looked on very seriously by the staff,” Paley says. “They don’t want you to stray...” "
From Hong Kong to Urumqi (Xinjiang province), it is one of the longest train journeys in the world—2,910 miles (4,683 Km) across China, in over 50 hours. The enormous resources from Xinjiang (cotton, minerals, oil) usually go East, while the people (mostly Han Chinese) from the mainland come the other way, towards Xinjiang (a province traditionally inhabited by Muslim Uighurs), aka China’s Wild West.
Full story here : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/travel-3-000-miles-through-chinas-wondrous-wild-west/
