Marco Polo in Xinjiang, Part 3: Taklamakan Desert & Aksai

A photographer from Nat Geo traces Marco Polo's route through Xinjiang to China. In Part 3, he travels into the Taklamakan Desert and attends a Tajik (perhaps Kyrgyz?) wedding in Aksai. Warning: includes somewhat graphic footage of a sacrificial lamb slaughter.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• xinjiang
• marco
• polo
• china
• taklamakan
• uyghur
• uighur
• yengisar
• kyrgyz
• tajik
• history

[Rab1975bit]

Why can't people just watch these videos in peace, just learn something or be entertained, instead of fighting and insulting each other like badly behaved kids! It's a bit sad when adults do that.

[conservativechickk]

I'm Taiwanese and I support the Uyghurs 100%, F**K china!

[kikimimi]

@caonimazazhongtoushu Please learn the English language first before you try to insult someone, because you sound like an idiot.

[kikimimi]

@caonimazazhongtoushu You are commenting in an area where you have no expertise in. Kazakhs support the idea of East Turkestan. Unlike Uzbekistan where the country is named after its major ethnicity, East Turkestan is named after all of our Turkish brothers so that it can become a land that we can unite.

[moldirsar]

@ufo809 kazakhstan kotakbas!!

[ufo809]

FUCK CHINA!!!!!!

[4empion4ik]

FREE UYGHURSTAN!!!!!!!!! FUCK CHINA!!!!!!

[Khamomil]

The very young child who witnesses the slaughter of the sheep looks completely traumatized at aprox. 5:00

[hainguyenx]

@weifangchori east Turkish I want it to be. Someday it will. I respect and cheerish every culture.

[hakanbehcan]

Pls someone writes what the man says in his language the time between 3:31 and 3:58