China photos: xinjiang

[last updated 27-Nov-2015] Below is a collection of photos taken in China. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler

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Fisheye look at a grassy hill in eastern China

Camels

Driving sheep in western China

Tajik burial temple

Karakoram Highway

Worker tents in China

New yurts

Tajik women at work on the farm

Tajik home in westerm China

Tajik girls walking along the highway

Mud hut in Tajik region of China

Man pulling a cart full of feed grass

Tajik man riding a donkey

Tajik woman standing at the base of Tashkurgan fort

Tashkurgan, as seen from the ruined Princess castle

Tashkurgan meadow

Mosque in Tashkurgan

Mausoleum in Tashkurgan, near the ruined fort

Main street in Tashkurgan

Boy pumping water as his mother washes, Tashkurgan

Turquoise doors in Tashkurgan

Old blue shed

Mother and son

Sunlight catching a snowy peak above Tashkurgan

Sheep in theback of a truck in Tashkurgan

Young Uighur man with his motorcycle

Adobe home

Man riding a donkey in Xinjiang

Children walking to school in Tashkurgan

Kids walking to school along the Karakoram highway

Yaks on the Karakoram highway

A group of yaks walking on the Karakoram highway

Mountains on the road to Datong

Metal workers building dam equipment in China

Metal workers preparing for the construction of a dam in western China

Dam construction underway in China

Worker's tents in remote China

Worker's tents

Mountain ridges

Tajik woman sewing in a field

Stone house

Group of Tajiks riding a hay-filled tractor

Donkey pulling a load of grass

Tajik stone house

Mechnical equipment

Tajik mausoleum

Tajik kids crossing a bridge

Tajik writing

Bridge on the road to Datong

Men crossing a river using a pulley system

Main street in Datong

White ducks in western China

Boy and his father riding a motorcycle riding down the main street in Datong village

Afternoon activities on the main street in Datong village

Woman in the doorway of her shop

Kids playing in the dust of Datong's dirt road

Donkey in Datong village

Tajik boy working with a shovel

Woman working in a field

Woman coming in from a field

Waterwheel in rural China

Goats in rural China

Goats in western China

Goats

Datong boys near their patch of sunflowers

Tajik boys playing in a field

Tajik boys

Tajik children in rural China

Tajik kids in rural China

Doorway in a white adobe wall

Pigeons in western China

Woman walking down the main road near Kusrap

Man with a pony in Kusrap

Mosque in Kusrap

Old wood saw

Old brown door

Kusrap woman fetching water

Group of women with their children in Kusrap

Men diverting a river in remote China

Man watching us from the roadside

Road through an oasis town near Yarkand

Praying mantis in China

Inscription on Altun Mosque in Yarkand

Rear entrance to Altun Mosque

Turret of Altun Mosque

Galloping donkey

Bus trouble in western China

Man pushing a cow

Uighur kids walking on a highway

Id Kah Mosque in western China

Tented worker camp in western China

Mechnical facilities in western China

Facilities in western China

Village along road to Datong

A bumpy road in western China

Modern yurts

Tajik woman in red with a cow

Kunlun countryside

Tajik tombs

Tajik cemetery in western China

Tajik territory in western China

Tajik farmers and their grass-laden donkey

Stone and adobe home in China

Fruit stand in Xinjiang

Tashkurgan fort with shadowed mountains in the background

Tashkurgan town, near the meadow

Tashkurgan ruins

Street in Tashkorgan

Brown door

Barred window

Door in Tashkorgan

Three kids in Tashkorgan

Tashkorgan village

Tashkurgan Road Sign

Tashkurgan town center

Clouds at sunset in Tashkurgan

Man riding bicycle in Tashkurgan

Biofuel

Mountains west of Tashkurgan

Tajik tombs outside of Tashkurgan

Tajik home

Tajik tombs

Leaving the Karakoram Highway as day breaks

Small hydro project in China

Production unit in western China

Turquoise river on the road to Datong

Rocky road to Datong

Valley in western China

Future dam site in China

Dam construction equipment in China

Dam workers in China

Construction equipment at dam site in China

Construction equipment at Chinese dam site

Preparation for dam construction in China

Many warning signs at a construction site in China

Opaque turquoise waters downstream from a dam in China

Remote valley in western China

Rocky road ahead

Tajiks working in a field

Valley on the road to Daton

Whitewater flowing through a rocky canyon in western China

Rocky pass on the way to Datong

The road to Datong is rocky and curvy at times

Airplane view of snow-capped mountains in western China

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