Xinjiang's Tarim River diverted and channeled to nurture world's largest desert poplar forest

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Revisiting Alor by Termion in Xinjiang!​

 

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Booming tourism

 

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Xinjiang, world biggest desert forest, where numerous Caspian tigers used to roam a century ago

Looks like a staged Zoo when all the native life has been eliminated.

 

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Looks like a staged Zoo when all the native life has been eliminated.

You don't see a lot of "native life" in the middle of one of the world biggest desert. There is only one village there which wasn't discovered by the outside world until 1960's.

 

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luobur village, the only village in the middle of this vast desert which wasn't discovered by the outside world until 1960's.
Their own legend goes that they are the descendants of Genghis khan's troops who got lost in this vast desert and settled down there.

 

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The sign reads: "Centenarian, 10￥（$1.5） per photo together.
I guess the main job now for the villagers now is ripping off dumb tourists

 

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