Turpan Turpan is hot.  Very hot.  It sits in the Turpan Depression, the second lowest point on earth behind the Dead Sea, roasting in the still air.  In Turpan, the summers are very long and boiling hot, the winters are short…

Hami Hami is an old oasis-city along the northern route of the old Silk Road.  Due to it’s strategic location, it has traded hands many, many times between the imperial Chinese, the Mongols, the Uyghurs, and various Turkic Central Asian…