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Chine - Urumqui

de Fredy, 26-09-2006

Good morning Xinjiang!

Xinjiang = new frontier. Name given by Chinese government to make clear that separatist groups have no chance achieving their plans. Beijing strengthened the measures after the 11/9, executing some of the leaders. That’s why I’m here, to continue making history. Maybe my intervention will be less crucial than the political issues, but at least I’ll increment the statistics of Peruvian tourists in the region!
First mission: find a place to sleep. The potential hostels proposed by my book guide are full. I start using the “wandering around” technique until I find a suitable place to stay or my back starts to complain. The latter occurs first. After a short pause observing how an Uighur woman with very firm conviction convinces a customer to buy a knife. The scene happens in other language than Chinese. This entertains my back, enough to continue the search. After 5 min I find it! 30 Yuan/night (3 euros). At first view, it seems ok, the bathroom looks a little bit run out and dirty but I’m a warrior traveler or a warrior traveler?! I take it. The rest of the day, I visit the Xinjiang autonomous museum, a complete collection of the silk road is displayed. I look also for a book guide for Central Asia, nothing! I gather information about how to get to Kanas Lake, at the very north of the country and, and about the flights to Tashkent. Caravan Café, a tour operator, tells me that the border will be close for over 1 week for Chinese national day. This means, loosing 1 week of the 4 available thanks to my visas in Central Asia. This is too long and I think seriously to take a plane to the other side, as long as it’s not with Molotov airlines!
At night, my room doesn’t look as attractive as it did this morning. About 5 little cockroaches hide away when I switch on the lights. I take quickly a shower before the time of hot water is over (22h30-0h). After finishing a strange noise comes from below the bathtub, a cricket maybe? One thing is sure, I’m not alone in this bedroom. I close the door of the bathroom and sleep with the lights on, hoping that no cockroach enters into my nostrils.

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