National Geographic Traveler Interactive - 10.11 2019

Two women

wait for

their rides

outside the

train station

in Shache,

historically

known as

Yarkand,

one of the

biggest cities

in China’s

Xinjiang Uygur

Auto nomous

Region.

Window

curtains on

the train from

Guangzhou/

Shenzhen

to Xinjiang

show a Uygur

woman riding

a camel in the

Taklimakan

Desert.

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