Outside of Turpan we went to visit Jiaohe Ruins, which are the remains of an ancient city from about 1600 years ago. We visited in the afternoon when it was REALLY hot, and we were pretty much just moving from one shade patch to the next. I think we all would have gotten more out of this visit if it had been cooler temperatures. That being said, overall it was an interesting place to visit. In the first photos, it's a little hard to tell that these were once buildings, but further down, it will become much more obvious.
Can you tell that I'm hot? In an attempt to stay sorta cool (or at least not completely bake), I was carrying around an extra 2 liters of water and dumping it on my head about every 10 minutes or so....
While much of what we saw I think was original, there were some sections (like this photo) that were or had been reconstructed. There were also several sections where I noticed they had painted the stone (maybe to help keep it from deteriorating?) and that detracted a bit from the visit for me....
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