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Selon certains guides, Turpan est la vallée de la mort de la Chine. “Enterrée” à 154 mètres sous le niveau de la mer, cette ville-oasis de 60’000 habitants voit en effet son thermomètre grimper à près de 50 degrés durant … Continue reading
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Today we met with Ran Li Ping, Water Resource Protection Project Officer at the Green Camel Bell (GCB), a Chinese environmental NGO based in Lanzhou (Gansu Province). The Green Camel Bell’s work is focusing on environmental education and communication, community … Continue reading
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We just arrived in China, after a 10-hour jeep ride through the Torugart Pass. Legendary caravans have been replaced by monstruous chinese trucks full of our so-called needs. As a first stop-over in the Xinjiang region, we discovered Kashgar, a … Continue reading
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We have just left Kyrgyzstan to continue our trip to China. Unfortunately there are no pictures for us to share because we haven’t been able to visit the country of horses and wild plains. Instead we spent 12 days in … Continue reading
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Nous quittons un pays, le Tadjikistan, pour en rejoindre un autre, le Kyrgyzstan. Nous laissons derrière nous les sommets blanchis du Pamir, pour découvrir les plaines, les gorges et les lacs bleus d’altitude du pays des chevaux. Les journées de … Continue reading
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Osh is Kyrgyzstan’s second biggest city. During the Silk road period, the city was a major hub. The Mongols smashed it in the 13th century, but Osh recovered and prospered like never before. Its bazar is still the longest of … Continue reading
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Le clavier n’a pas été très actif depuis quelque temps, nos jambes, par contre, oui ! Deux treks de 6 et 7 jours nous ont emmenés sur les traces des bergers pamiris et de Marco Polo. Un ensemble de sommets … Continue reading
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We discovered the Pamir Mountains inTajikistan, a fantastic playground for trekking, climbing and mountaineering. Endless valleys succeed to high plateaus at 4000m high and beyond. Sharing the same roots as Iranians, Pamiris also have a deep sense of hospitality, despite … Continue reading
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Yet another ex-USSR republic, but again a national hero taken from an historic figures, a ruler. Here it’s Ismail Samani, a Samanid (Persian). In Uzbekistan was Timur (Tamerlan) the Mongol. But still a shared culture and identity that Stalin artificially … Continue reading
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A l’époque (IIIème – XIIème siècle) de l’intense échange commercial entre l’est et l’ouest le long de ce que l’on nomme de nos jours Route de la Soie, les régions qui composent l’Ouzbékistan d’aujourd’hui ne sont qu’un maillon d’une seule … Continue reading
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Looking at the map of Uzbekistan, there are many National Parks and Protected Areas marked with dashed green lines and little green trees. We’ve decided to explore one of them, the Ugam-Chotkol Nature Reserve, just 85km North of Tashkent. The … Continue reading
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Here are some pictures of Bukhara and Samarkand in Uzbekistan. These cities were an important exchange place during the silk road period (V-XIIc.), when products coming from the West were meeting those coming from China. Uzbekistan is now slowly becoming … Continue reading