CHINA 3 Months In China, March-June 2008

There is no English map of Xinjiang.  Not even Pinyin.  Only Chinese.  But I can read the elevation numbers: four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand.  Not bad, thinks a mind accustomed to elevation in feet.  But that mountain is not seven thousand feet high.  It's seven thousand meters.  Twenty-three thousand feet!