First impressions of Hotan (or Khotan, or Hetain…it seems to have a million transliterations…) were the kind that make you question why on earth you had come there. It is a Uighur town in western China that has been subject to increased migration of Han Chinese in recent years as road, rail and economic links to […]
Continue Reading... 3 Comments.I’m writing this from Baku, where extreme heat and wind have combined to make me rather nervous about the prospect of having to get a boat in the next few days… To distract myself from this impending doom, I’ve decided that Georgia probably deserves more than merely a single blog post which focused almost exclusively […]
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