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Taklamakan Dune Buggy
Posted by: michaeldmanning
Video duration: 140 seconds
A dune buggy ride through the Taklamakan Desert... in Xinjiang, China. The site is known as Loburen Cunzai, or the Lobu People Village. Those trees are Hu Yang, or Diversifolius Poplars... very beautiful around the beginning of November when the leaves turn yellow.
Related: buggy, china, desert, dune, korla, poplar, taklamakan, trees, urumqi, xinjiang
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Great Xinjiang Eclipse of 2008
Posted by: michaeldmanning
Video duration: 486 seconds
The moment of totality live from Yiwu, Xinjiang, China. Includes a few minutes of coverage before the total solar eclipse. Captured from the Exploratorium's live feed on August 1, 2008 (2008/08/01).
Related: 2008, august, china, eclipse, solar, total, xinjiang, yiwu
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Marco Polo in Xinjiang, Part 1: Karakul & Kashgar
Posted by: michaeldmanning
Video duration: 525 seconds
A photographer from Nat Geo traces Marco Polo's route through Xinjiang to China. In Part 1, he travels from the Pamir Mountains on the Sino-Afghan border to Kashgar.
Related: china, history, karakul, kashgar, kyrgyz, marco, polo, tajik, tashkorgan, taxkorgan, uighur, uyghur, xinjiang
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The Kashgar Experience
Posted by: michaeldmanning
Video duration: 463 seconds
Music video for Wushur Kari's song entitled "Ziyarat", in which the singer returns to Kashgar and visits many of the city's top sites. Particularly interesting are the scenes at the beginning and end of the video in the square around Id Kah Mosque. The last two minutes of the video particularly capture the mood of Kashgar.
Related: china, kashgar, uyghur, uygur, xinjiang
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Xinjiang House of Horrors
Posted by: michaeldmanning
Video duration: 136 seconds
The weirdest house of horrors you've never been to... this footage was shot in the summer of 2007 in Korla, Xinjiang, China. Most of what you see here is based on stories from "Journey to the West", one of the major stories in classical Chinese literature.
Related: carnival, china, horrors, house, journey, king, kong, korla, monkey, of, sun, the, to, west, wu, xinjiang
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Monks Protest Outside Labrang Monastery
Posted by: michaeldmanning
Video duration: 345 seconds
Video captured on cellphone of Tibetan Buddhist monks protesting near the entrance to the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province in China. March 15, 2008.
For more information visit http://china.notspec ial.org/.
Related: amdo, china, gansu, labrang, monks, protest, riot, tibet, xiahe
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