It is easy to get from Kazakhstan to China. Just take a bus from Almaty and after 12 hours you are in Yining, the capital of Kazakh Autonomous Region in China (west part of the Xinjiang Province). The country is inhabited by many nations like Kazakh, Uygur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek and of course Chinese emperors. On the streets of Yining we felt more like we were in Turkey than in China, surrounded by the Uygur guys in colourful jumpers, with mustaches, smiles, and dark round eyes calling you from every corner. They were really surprised about our presence in their poor, forgotten country, surrounded by milions of Chinese invaders.
In the afternoon we came back to our hotel. After dusk, just around the corner on the main street of Yining, we found many open air restaurants. The harsh climate of west-north china has caused local food to be extremely greasy and spicy. We could put as much pure white sheep fat as we wanted into our hot noodle soup made of intestines and stomach. That kind of food need a couple of shots of spirits so we did it. After the dinner we were ready to cross the Gobi desert but finally we changed our minds and we went to the ladyboy show at the disco nearest our hotel.