Urumqi Travel Guide

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Urumqi-'Beautiful Pasture,' unlike Las Vegas-'The Meadows' is not the first place you would go to for a decent, all you can eat buffet. Actually, Urumqi is not the first place you would go for a lot of things. Urumqi is the world's most remote city (in relation to any coastline.) In fact, the only thing close by is the 'Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility.' While you may have thought such a marker to be found at a nunnery in Warsaw, the true pole is relatively nearby, at 200 miles outside of this lonely capital. The city, the biggest in western China, boasts an industrial core and a solid population of over 2 million people. While isolated, the terrain is not without aesthetic charms. Urumqi sprawls in the shadow of the altitudinous, Bogda Peak, while, salinating to the east, you'll find a distinctly non-Mormon Salt Lake. Topographically diverse, note how the Zunggar basin meets pine forests and sand dunes cum rolling fields. Explorers will appreciate that while this is the Eurasian Point of Inaccessibility, it is much easier to locate than the other 3 inaccessibility points: Point Nemo, lies in the middle of the ocean, the other two on the ice blocs of the northern and southern poles. An important way station on the ancient Silk Road, shop around for some Hermes knock-offs, and then mellow out in the Tartar Mosque and the Red Hill (a mountain composed of sanguine rock.)

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