Quote Originally Posted by futianshenzhen View Post
Hey, I'm in a bar waiting for my flight to hohhot so pls excuse any typos. Raymond! No tianshan photos! Wtf! The snowy pics are the highest pass, thru there, I took loads. I have more but need to edit the mofos first. Felix, its not that bad, there are a shit load of road blocks but when u het to a town its actually fairly low key. They were pretty hot on hotel registration but apart from that everyone was pretty much left to it. The locals didn't seem that oppressed and looked busy enough with their own lives. The main reason for not going to xinjiang is the boring roads, there r sole great ones but I also sometimes went days othout a corner!
The trick is to stay off the toll roads unless your in a hurry plenty of back roads of varying quality in Xinjiang that is where you will see the real Xinjiang but you won't be doing the mileage you were doing on backroads.