Traveling to Xinjiang? Want to Stay Connected? Read this. – China Travel

The AFP published a misleading article about email in Xinjiang today and people on twitter have been repeating it ad nauseum. The truth is that yes, one can send and receive emails within the province, but there's a minor problem...

It's relatively unknown compared to it's above-ground brother, but Xinjiang boasts an engineering feat that rivals The Great Wall - and not as many people died building it.

A little intro to the Uigher people out in northwest China, a predominantly Turkic ethnicity struggling to build a better life for themselves on the modern Silk Road.

It was this time last year that my wife and I came across a few pictures of the lakes of Xinjiang and decided to pack our bags and head north west. We knew about the turmoil of life up there, we knew some of the history, and we knew something of Kashgar, but we were just heading for a holiday. We wanted to leave city life behind us and get up in the mountains and amongst the lakes.