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Day 12 (19.05.2007)
Today we went from Yarkand to Hotan - about 300 km. The driver took me to a carpet factory and afterwards to a silk factory. It was very interesting to see how a carpet is being weaved, because even huge carpets are handmade here. The production of silk I only saw on television before and here I saw it for the first time in reality. My main aim in Hotan was to see how jade is being mined, because I am a mineral collector. Since over 2000 years a large part of the Chinese jade comes from Hotan and it is of very good quality. Today people try to find jade here with excavators. Hotan Jade is often white. I have only bought a small and inexpensive piece of raw Hotan Jade. Afterwards the driver and me had dinner and later the day was over.
in search of Hotan Jade
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