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Turpan makes for a pretty hot city, located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region it is about 35-40C.

After arriving from a 12 hour train ride and a having a relaxing lunch, visited the lowest point in China (2nd lowest in the world). 156m below sea level. In the middle of the salt flats at the lowest point was about 45C. Took a an hour of a bumpy ride in a mini-bus to get there (and an hour back out too).

From there on to visit a small village out of Turpan. The Xinjiang Region is largely muslim, this little village with it mosque and mud/clay houses look more like something out of footage of the Middle East. Stand there look out of the small place, was easy to think were no longer in China. Some of the houses there are over 300-400 years old.