Asia Trip - Day 3 (Friday, August 5, 2011)

Flew from HK to Beijing and connected a flight to Urumqi.

Beijing airport: Could never tell if the weather was bad or if it was just pollution in China or both, but the sky was never blue and the weather was always hot. 

By the time we arrived in Urumqi, it was night.

 View from our hotel (Hoi Tak Hotel).

Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China and the one city in the world that is farthest away from any sea.

This place is 75% Han Chinese and 12% Uyghur.


Ate dinner and then wandered around the People's Square.

 Urumqi - People's Square: Center of the square.

 People's Square: Chinese calligraphy on the floor.

 People's Square: People just hanging out after dinner time.

 People's Square: The men playing cards.

 People's Square: The kids rollerblading.