Caravanistan

So what if the ethnic group is older than Islam? (It's equally irrelevant, for example, that the Chinese sources you cite predate the adoption of Turkic language.)

It's precisely the Islamic aspects of Uyghur culture that the government is trying to eradicate.

The reality is that wind speed does not affect temperature. Maybe you should try to think wider and realize that your "over scale" car sensor isn't a precision measuring device. Neither is some random thermometer that certainly wasn't designed for high temperatures. The weather station in Errachidia...

I think the person playing professional expert is the one saying wikipedia is wrong and that we had 60°C temperatures in the last 10 years when the all-time record for Earth is 55°C. The reality is that it gets very hot on the region. Uncomfortably (and possibly unsafely) hot. We don't need to make ...

Mazeno, where did I suggest it's comfortable to cycle? All I did was point out that your "facts" are not actually true. If you have a problem with that, maybe don't support your argument with false facts. And yeah, I'm sure many meteorologists would completely agree with you that there are so many r...

Well, Mazeno, I'd say I'll take wikipedia's word over yours any day. Heck, you might notice that wikipedia even has sources for their data... and none of them are facebook! Interesting that you noticed temperatures in Morocco that nobody else did. I guess when you turn facebook off the temperature g...

my "hot" experiences atyrau/aktau/nukus/bukhara, july/sept 2012 - 5 days over 55C 2014 - 7 days 45C 2017 - 7 days 40-45C 2019 - 8 days 40-45C so i think may is ok for western kzh april maybe steppe floods june/july maybe steppe fires (thunderbolts result, in may it is too early for fires as the ste...

Mazeno is the kind of guy who quite literally believes that it is morally wrong to bring technology like cell phones and internet service to under-developed places like the Wakhan, and that these sorts of things just make the locals miserable in the long run. He also believes increased tourism is ba...

The China visa page here on Caravanistan mentions this French service that allows applications by mail: https://www.rapidevisa.fr/Visa/Chine.html Since you now need fingerprint registration, perhaps the best bet is to register your fingerprints while still in France (by ordering a visa you won't use...

Colour me skeptical. Do we really want to pick winners and losers, and decide who receives money and who doesn't? Especially since the idea seems to be that we should direct money to those participating in the tourism industry, even though those participating in the tourism industry already tend to ...

Turkish, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Uyghur are all Turkic languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages Turkey, like Saudi Arabia, has also been funding the construction of mosques in the region as a means of growing their soft power. https://carnegieendowment.org/2014/01/27/tur...