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Shanshan

Shanshan was a kingdom located at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert near the great, but now mostly dry, salt lake known as Lop Nur.

Shanshan
Shanshan · GGGAgolf
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Shanshan was a kingdom located at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert near the great, but now mostly dry, salt lake known as Lop Nur.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Shanshan

Airports
Ürümqi Tianshan (URC), 249 km
  • Ürümqi → Shanshan
    235 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · ¥105–145
  • Dunhuang → Shanshan
    479 km · quickest by road, 10h · ¥275–370
  • Jiayuguan → Shanshan
    755 km · quickest by road, 12h 39m · ¥355–475
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shanshan

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shanshan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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If you know how people move in Shanshan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.