Urumqi: 24 Hours in China's Most Restricted Region

We’re Oskar🧔🏻 and Dan👱🏻‍♂️, and we believe that anyone regardless of who they are deserves to live their dreams! For the past nine years, we’ve continued pushing boundaries by traveling and living all across the world, including places like Uganda, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia. In 2022, we reached a huge milestone by visiting 100 countries and we’re now on a mission to keep sharing our journey and hopefully make the world a little more open, compassionate, and peaceful along the way❤️</br>China was our 19th country together (first visited in 2016)🌏</br>We spent 24 hours in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang and one of China's most restricted regions, exploring a side of China most travelers never see. From Hongshan Park and the Xinjiang Provincial Museum to a vegan lunch in a local neighborhood and the stunning International Grand Bazaar, this Urumqi travel guide covers Uyghur culture, Central Asian food, Islamic architecture, and daily life in Western China. We stayed at the Conrad Urumqi, tried Turkish coffee and Western Chinese noodles, and walked through mosques and markets that feel worlds away from Beijing or Shanghai. China travel, Xinjiang travel, Uyghur food, Silk Road.