Singaporean in XinJiang Series Part 3 | HoTan 和田 | My Vlog | 新加坡去新疆 4th April 2021 China | Noel Lee
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- After a good night’s rest in the hotel in Kashgar,
We proceeded early the next morning to the airport by taxi.
The Kashgar airport is a modest one and I experienced one of my worst coffee at the airport. Let's not talk about it.
We were asked to lower all our window shades for the taxi & take off as the airport in Kashgar was also a military one.
The flight was a smooth one and I managed again to grab some further footage of the ground from above, to show the landscape that we flew over.
There was a simple throat swab CoVid test on arrival at Hotan airport
We then took a taxi to our hotel in Hotan. The hotel was a pretty old one hence I did not take any footage of the room. I liken it to a "3 star hotel" back in the day in LongGang in ShenZhen or GongBei in Zhuhai 10-15 years ago. At least that was my experience. It was okay but not on par with what I stayed in in Kashgar. As you (I) get old, you want to stay in better conditions for a hotel, LOL.
Rented a car with a driver to bring us to a cotton field.
Along the way we saw cottonwood tress and walnut plantations
We went thru 1 main gantry point where the police had 1 armed guard and that was a point where everyone had to show their ID and Health QR code.
Along the way we past at least 2 more roadside check points where Uyghur police glanced into the car to wave us to carry on, or to ask to stop by the road for further checks.
We were waved along on the 1st one, and the 2nd one, we had to dismount the vehicle and have our temperature and ID scanned.Since we didn’t have IDs but passports, we had to use a pen to record on a sheet of paper, our particulars, there was this one Uyghur policeman who even apologised for the inconvenience of the manual input.
We then reach a place where we could have lunch,
Again it was lamb skewers that we had, and I documented the cooks making some Xinjiang noodles, by "picking" the dough into the boiling water to cook
There was this "King of Fig Tree" nearby and we went to have a look. I didn't take any footage of such tree as what I saw didn't resemble a tree to me. It was a set of undulating wooden stems and branches in the center of a demarcated area, meant to preserve the tree.
It was a 40 mins (approx) drive from the lunch location to the cottonfield.
Unfortunately, our quest to find a cotton plantation met with a dead end.
A cotton plantation did lay ahead of a security gantry point.
Because we did not make any prior arrangements to enter this area,
which was outside of Hotan itself, we had to undergo another CoVid test. We did not have the time to wait for such a test result, in addition the police also advised that we had to seek out some foreign affairs office to get a permit to enter a cottonfield.
So we decided to head back to the city instead
And go to the Bazaar.
In Hotan city, we visited the bazaar area, where I took photos of some children.
And even made weChat friends with their mother so that I could transfer the photos of the children to her
We headed back to the hotel at about 6pm and had a bit of a rest before proceeding out to the Night Markets to have some dinner
The 1st night market that we went to, Fernando @FerMuBe did a live stream and that took some time, and we wanted to visit yet another Night Market, hence we skipped dinner to proceed to the next Night Market in order to catch the performances that we were told would take place,
The 2nd Night market was the highlight of the trip since it was a spectacle of life, culture and celebration.
People gathered in what looked like banquet style setting to have their dinner and watch the free performances which featured young dancers as well as senior performers who played cultural instruments and sang.
We could also see police presence , patrolling up and down the floor protecting and preserving the peace.
It was a coincidence that the XinJiang TV network had a cameraman and reporter there that night and she interviewed us.
The link to this short interview, I have included here,
• 4 April 2021 Singapore...
do check it out
We retired for the night after the performance and didn’t actually had a proper dinner, just bits of food here and there while I was taking photographs of the performances and then that interview, too much adrenalin and didn’t think about food.
The next morning, again at 5am, we checked out and proceeded to take a flight back to Urumqi where we transited for the afternoon and then back to ShenZhen.
Along the way while in the City layover, I met some school children selling
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I can imagine Xinjiang being another tourist hotspot in the future. I definitely want to visit
It is already a tourist hotspot. Just a little far from other population centers. It takes a long vacation to go there.
The best is to self visit or travel , rather than trust the western media, the western media get too much political issues into the news, hard to tell true or not. Credibility is getting lower and lower.
i have been there for few times, is really nice travel place!
In fact, it is popular. It's just too far, too big. It takes a lot of time and a lot of money.😊😊😊
Been to Bei Jiang ,would like.to go Nan Jiang omce the border opened
Great defination of 读万卷书不如行万里路
中华文化崇尚和睦。这片土地上的民族团结、人民幸福就好。感谢Noel，感谢所有不编造谎言的媒体。
Amazing. Thank you for showing the world the true Xinjiang.
Thank you Harry.
Appreciate your watching.
中国欢迎所有不预设立场心怀善意持中立立场探访中国普通人生活的旅行者，你会真切感受中国普通人民的善良，好客，热情与友好。
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i really like the photos u took for the kids
Children are the future and they are always lovely wherever they are in the world. I just happen to see the ones in Urumqi, Kashgar and Hotan.
Thank you Noel brother for this wonderful video ❤️❤️❤️❤️. I really appreciate your hard work ❤️🙏.
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Today's video makes my day.
Foreign or other religions living in China is safest and most happiest in the world.
Foreign or other living in China means living in futuristic country ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Thank you China for helping India during covid period ❤️. I will never forget that ❤️❤️❤️❤️.
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China India friendship forever ❤️🙏....🙏
Thank you again Nilesh for watching.
Falun Gong
Your words are so kind♥️♥️♥️
@@gergentanakrisse5430 . Thank you sis 😊❤️
It is great to see a citizen of a small dot making a big impact against the narratives of giants. Singaporeans need to be able to think for ourselves and tell right from wrong.
Yeah. Wake up and stand against the manipulative ones.
@@DrakeLimOfficial I hope you can truly wake up someday
@Winston S Very strange indeed.
Yeah sorry guys, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire. If any society starts forcibly “re-educating” people without even an opportunity to a fair trial and think that is ok you have already lost your way. And please dont insult me or yourselves by saying that I am blindly following western propaganda. It is especially amusing since people within China have a strict restriction to the news they see and can share. Try sharing anything contrary to the “correct” view on your social networks or talk about Tiananmen killings on weibo and see how well it goes. The fact is the internal media within China is compromised and unreliable because you can’t air anything opposed to the official line. I hope China could work together with the people of Xinjiang rather than use this fear and violence to control them. It is far from you now, but one day your local court might jail you just because you live in the same apartment building as a thief. All societies western eastern have done grave mistakes and hurt people before and even now. It is particularly worrying in China because of the control the state has in the modern era that no voices are allowed to question what is going on amongst the regular chinese people.
@Winston S real mature of you to assume I’m western. Two wrongs do not make a right. You are correct that America has committed crimes in the middle east but it is not wise to bury your head in the sand seeing that China is making the same mistakes. You are also correct earlier that America gains economically from attacking China on this matter but that doesn’t mean abuses happening in Xinjiang are a conspiracy given the overwhelming evidence. As I originally said, there is no one from within China allowed to question the chinese narrative, if you are arrested tomorrow in China on false charges as a Uyghur, what choices do you have? You think everything the chinese state is doing there is perfect? If a person approaches the media in China in such a case they would be turned away, if they approach media outside China you would call them traitors. The world is not black and white. Two things can happen at the same time. Good day
Wishing you good health, joy and kindness in your lives.
Likewise. Thank you.
Support your video. Bro. Love from Malaysia , your neighbor country. 😉
Thank you Dominic, love Malaysia truly Asia.
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Thanks you for sharing this video
Nice video, great music and fantastic photos. The smiles on the kids are the real truth, what a joy to watch. Beats the haters and their negativity anytime, all the time. Cheers
Looking forward to watching
Bro, your trip to Hotan is very rush. In fact, you should have planned 2-days each in Urumqi, Kashgar, and Hotan. Try to visit there again. I hope I can plan my next Xinjiang trip soon. Been there since 2016. Miss the lamb skewer. See that Urumqi has changed from your video as compared to 2016.
Incredible footage and love the music
That means a lot, it means the effort paid off.
Thank you and I appreciate you.
Noel, 加油!
Thank you Jeremy, hope you will like the part 3
10 over years ago, it would had been really dangerous for anyone outside to travel to Xinjiang, most of their population were uneducated and lost, committing crime was one of the resort to survive, hats off to the government to restore order and giving them a direction to survive - today all people around the world will get a chance to see Xinjiang's beauty and friendly people.
Most of the population were committing crimes? What nonsense. I traveled through Xinjiang coming from Pakistan in 1987, it was safe. People had their own businesses and were able to determine their own lives. The food was fantastic.
@@sabinereynaudsf you really have no idea, after 90s some western government bribed people there to create chaos and thus start of extremism and crime... I'm not saying all are bad but with paid extremists and mafias running around it was dangerous times during that period
@@allofatso2104 "most of their population were uneducated and lost, committing crime was one of the resort to survive"
You did say most people are criminal. Btw. China has it's own influence operation. ruclips.net/video/psqQimMZeTQ/видео.html
@@allofatso2104 I know about that. The US funded NED wanted people to create problems for the CCP and paid them to do it. When that did not work they created the false narrative that the Muslims are mistreated. It's terrible what the western media is doing.
Truly amazing & discovery!
XinJiang is on my "places to visit before I die" bucket list
Good video, it speaks the truth. It's a beautiful place.
some western media just can't be trusted at all, they deliberately spread rumours about Xinjiang with bad intention, too bad!
I also like Xinjiang very much. I have been to Xinjiang for photography twice
Thank you for sharing Kok Leong. Appreciate you watching.
Love the positive energy! The world needs more of it these days. Also those kids were adorable! I wouldn't have been able to decline their flowers either!
The kids are just walking freely through the city... That must be nice...
Noel, you've come a long way since I first commented. Continue the great work! Love your photos of the people.
Thank you Michael. We’ve come the way of just over a month. The response has been beyond my imagination.
All thanks to the like minded people like yourself. Who can appreciate what I am doing. It’s like literature and you have comprehended my story.
Great recount of the trip!
Get the whole collection on DVD now ! Lol 😂
Fantastic last shot!
Thank you David, I appreciate that very much.
another couch travel vlog 👍
The kids are so cute!
👍 wow...those kids when grew up will be handsome n beautiful for girls. Hope u can follow up trips every 15 months or so for progress to the differences. 🙏..... next trip to be more meaningful by staying for adequate time.....😀
THANK YOU SO MUCH NOEL for this inspiring video. I saw great love in the picture with those flower kids.
Thank you for watching Joseph.
Great to have touched you.
Yes to fellow critical thinking Singaporean. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us in this video.
Hi Drake, hope the 14 min video is a good conclusion to my 1st trip to SinJiang (deliberately spelt with S) and I look forward to a sequel.
Thank you for watching.
PS: there is no critical thinking in this video, just an archive of my experience in Hotan and the last day in Urumqi.
And the array of people that my camera lens was about to come across.
@@NoelLee89 So beautifully shot. And quite curious, there’s not many security cameras now huh? Hehehehe!
Anyway, you’re making my wanderlust that much more intense now, watching this video.
@Zhang Feng Feng I am looking forward to travel there and hopefully, do business there as well, if there's an opportunity, but yes, explore and seeing it with my own eyes is better than propaganda. So this video helps to bring some truth and some kind of an expectation on what reality is, than just what the media says. Unfortunately, Singapore is also pretty much influenced by Western media... so we have to look outside for news.
@Zhang Feng Feng Agreed. We are still ethnically Chinese. We can be proud of our heritage as well as our nationality. Having said that, we should also be critical with whatever information that is being fed to the mass. Question everything we see or hear before we make our own informed judgments about it. No system is perfect, but, as far as the situation goes, the ones pointing the finger at China has four more pointed at themselves.
@Zhang Feng Feng I totally agree with you. The development made in China is so fast, it is almost unbelievable. If I do not have friends currently living there, mainland and Xinjiang, I would really thought it's a lie too. Hah! But yeah, I'm proud of China for being able to withstand all criticism about them, and they are no longer the China that the foreigners only know off, 50-60 years ago.
I love it, it's so nice to see a foreigner prove that one doesn't need a special permit to enter Xinjiang... I've been trying to tell this to my friends for months. Donated you a cup of coffee!
Thank you for the coffee Jonathan.
Yes, you do not need any permit to go to any part of XinJiang that is open to the public.
Of course you cannot go into the military bases, etc
And even the Solar Panel factories, which I have enquired, but currently to no avail as to how I can visit one.
You just need to make sure you check and book the hotels that accepts foreigners.
The only place you need a permit for a foreigner is Tibet.
@@NoelLee89 Most welcome; hope to see more content soon! Let me know if you’re ever in Chengdu! 🎉
Very nice photography!
Wish u had stayed longer..especially in Kashgar...a drive out to the mountains and a visit to the wholesale and livestock market would have been interesting.
Thks Noel, ur visit shared here makes me wanna go to Xinjang for holidays now. :) Rgds from Kuala Lumpur.
such amazing trip , i want join next time
Will visit once opportunity arise ..thank for the information
Hi Lee, I am a Chinese living in sg for 16 years, if you have the other chance revisit Xin Jiang, i would recommend u going to kanas Lake，Turpan and Irtysh River (五彩滩）. I was really impressed by the vast and diversed landscape/culture in Xin Jiang.
Nice !
Thanks for giving us a glimpse of what XinJiang looks like, it’s highly unlikely I will get to visit this place. Many Thanks 😊
Thanks Neol, it's so appreciated.
Cyrus sent me here great video. Keep up the good work❤👍👏
Thank you Annie. I appreciate that very much.
Another cheerful vlog, Noel. Understand that you cannot went to the fields due to the border city for COVID control and the sensitivity nowadays as you are non Chinese resident…. While Chinese platform like Bilibili has some locals uploaded the daily life there. It’s really not much difference as most Chinese, only the weather is more dry and less raining ☔️ lol.
Waiting ! 🥺
Thanks for the truth and facts. 👍👍👍
The children seem happy, if the is genocide, do you think the children dare to play outside their house?
Another good video. It's a pity your trip with Fer mu be was so brief.
Good Job and Support !
Looks beautiful! I'll head there next time. :D
What a great job you have done, il will certainly go visiting that place.
Thank you for the video. 他们那边肯定种很多无花果，很想吃
新僵真美!
新疆真美
Another great video!
Thank you for watching James. Appreciate you.
Kudos to you Noel, for yr out of the beaten track trip. Not many Singaporeans would make the trip, given the hassles and issues involved. But you exposed the hypocrisies of the west, and made clear that CNN is not the arbiter of truth, and BBC is absolutely not the gold standard where of accuracy and impartiality as it tirelessly claimed to be. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Yew Woh Poon,
in all honesty, I didn't make the trip from Singapore.
And I have explained in this video
ruclips.net/video/vvSbCwesEV0/видео.html
that if I wasn't in China, I would likely be the same as the many Singaporeans who would not make the trip.
But I appreciate your watching, your comment and Thank you.
Then what about China 9 dotted lines in South China Sea? Just because it is China then it is ok for them to be aggressive?
Very welcome positive reports from fellow Singaporeans, hope you have fun in China
Thank you for watching.
@@NoelLee89 I am currently in Singapore
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Great video
“one yuan survival challenge” ,that’s funny 😄
It is like "flag day" in Singapore and Hong Kong, IMO
👍👍👍
You are a good photographer!
Thank you very much. That is so nice of you to say. I really appreciate it.
China is so clean every where compared to America
Just watched Barrett’s video and came here. Thank you for the very well presented video. Good job.👍
Thank you Angel Baby, I appreciate your coming over to my channel very much.
Great, your followers exceed 10k.
Nice music for the video
Thanks Noel for the video! Amazing filming and editing.
Just sad you did not make an arrangement to visit the field, this leave some people with doubts about whats happening. Of course we know the issue with western fake medias and the BiasedBroadCasting.
Thank you for watching Janine.
I appreciate your comment.
The cotton field is in Different area, so need another Covid Check, he can not wait so he do not go
@@NKOL17 Yes.
Thanks for the video i am form Malaysian Chinese.... would love to visit China someday....
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等疫情过后快来中国玩吧！我作为生活在北京的中国人都觉得现在出去旅游是一个一个的惊喜，尤其喜欢小城市里人们的质朴和热情❤️
4:50 that's probably how Singapore's mee-hoon-kway originated ... LOL 😁
I wish you stayed longer at each places. It didn’t seem to worth the time and effort getting there. However I did enjoy watching.
Thank you for watching.
The main goal of the very short trip was to show and see for myself that the place that is dubbed as extremely dangerous is actually a normal place after measures are put in place to curb the terrorism that rocked Xinjiang before.
And to see for myself that there is no genocide, cultural or otherwise.
No suppression
Lol not surprised about the cotton farm being strict, they're having trust issues definitely, that or the locals had enough of visitors, maybe better chance when the harvest season begins 😅
Even then, it was also due to the fact that Noel was caught off guard about the COVID test needed before entry, besides making arrangements. Hopefully we can get to see a tour in future.
Actually It is not cotton farm restriction, it is cross-city/border restriction during Covid 19.
@@simonj5128 Yeah that’s why I thought. It’s due to COVID and he has to wait for the swab test results that deterred him from waiting to go to the cotton farm
@Neptunian Yes Exactly. It's confirmation bias. If their views are challenged, it is seen as an attack. It's a natural biological defence mechanism most people would take that is often why, they chose to ignore the "what-if", or evidences that debunked their ideological and dismiss it as, "fake news".
Having said that though, based on what I read on Karthur's comment, the strictness is still plausible, but it is just not suggested in Noel's video and it is specifically stated that he needs to wait for the COVID result and Noel only has the day to visit the cotton fields, and he has other places in his itinerary. So he left.
very good
出租车居然全是新能源车
好帅，我可以惹！！！！！！
I am hoping to see some real evidence of genocide. But all you can show are delicious food, beautiful people and their peaceful lives?
Wow! You have hit 10K! Are you going to do some special vid to celebrate your small achievement? I saw some people suggested a live Q&A session. What say you?
I hope Xinjiang becomes a very popular tourist destination. The Chinese tourists were the world's most numerous before the pandemic slowed international tourism and now with most of those tourists taking holidays inside China places like this beautiful city will prosper.
Thank you for watching
I don't see any difference between urumqi City and other Chinese cities. Glad to see Arabic characters everywhere.
Wow
Great!👍🏻
Lim Kopi Bo. Good Job and keep up the good work. From a fellow Singaporean.
Thank you for watching Ivan Tan. Appreciate it
新疆很美待那么短的时间很可惜，是我估计至少待一个月吧
下次再去，我也有工作，当时不能去哪太久时间
美如画
Long live Hotan👌👌👌
Current Xinjiang residents are studying not being influenced by ill-wishers like in the past His life is very good right now.
So sad you didn't get the opportunity to visit the cotton field but can try it at sheep farm though 😁😁😁
Noel, 你笑得很灿烂啊！
谢谢
must be tough to get up so early to catch a morning flight 😢😢😢!!!
时间有点紧。不过贵在乐观👍
just back from Kashgar holiday. can understand why Westerners are jealous.
i was "emmm"... until 5:13 that's the thing man
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Great presentation.
Btw, how much did that lamb skewer cost?
if I am not mistaken, about 1 SGD per skewer.
Thank you for watching.
很好的视频，因为是真实的！其次，建议你更多展示跟当地人的交流，交流包括更细节的:语言沟通，所见所闻。
Are mosques there active and free to visit in Xinjiang?
我觉得你没必要慢放警车 我可以告诉你每个小片区都有警车停靠 值夜班 。要求是一但有问题5分钟内要到场。75刚发生后是武警守着的 现在换警察了 如果你没经历过75，早市爆炸案或者大型的恐怖活动 我想你也不太理解。 作为新疆出生长大的人虽然麻烦我反而比较安心
連續看了三集，可惜的是因為影片長度有限，有走馬看花的感覺，
说起和田，就想起和田玉。。。。。
Good work. Watch out for the many CIA dogs on your way to 100 thousands!
It would be great if you could write all your expenses along your journey? It's my dream place to go once in my life. How would you recommend for a Thai lady, who speaks no Chinese...going solo?? Thank you!!
Will reply later
@@NoelLee89
Hotan is famous for its jade, buy some for your wife.
so 棉花地没看成，光看了一帮美女唱歌跳舞了 ：-）