Abdul Wahab Tours is a family run business of six brothers specializing in the Xinjiang region.I chose them for three main reasons.1. Excellent English. I was messaging many companies that had poor english with grammatical errors. This can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations, especially when such large sums of money are involved and planning your perfect trip. The contacts at Abdul Wahab always spoke perfect english in their communications and there ...

Here is a post blog private email about my trip to China. I purposely left out anything about politics or government so as not to get my tour guide in trouble with authorities but there is more stuff I needed to talk about from my trip.There is an underlying tension between the ethnic chinese and ethnic uyghars living in Xinjiang. The government has been paying ethnic chinese to take vacations and to resettle in xinjiang province. This is changing the demographic...

Abdul Wahab Tours is a family run business of six brothers specializing in the Xinjiang region.I chose them for three main reasons.1. Excellent English. I was messaging many companies that had poor english with grammatical errors. This can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations, especially when such large sums of money are involved and planning your perfect trip. The contacts at Abdul Wahab always spoke perfect english in their communications and there ...

I first came across Uyghar music in my first trip to China in 2010. The Xian Muslim Bazaar was playing turkish bollywood persian style music but in a language unfamiliar, as well as some actual turkish music. When I asked what this music was a vendor said he was from Xinjiang and this was their music.When I found a Xinjiang restaurant in Shanghai they were playing more of this music and had a satellite tv channel with music videos. Growing up on bollywood music a...

The hotels I stayed at in Xinjiang were quite impressive.The first, Tumaris Hotel Urumqi, had a very impressive lobby and main floor like aladdins lamp or the arabian nights. It was very close to the Grand Bazaar, Night Market, and Tatar Mosque. They had a very large breakfast buffet with choice of western or traditional meals. Two Russian tv channels in hotel room as well as China State TV. Well stocked minibar but pricy in local terms.Video : Urumqi hotel lobby...