First task: change money at the bank. We couldn’t find an exchange office or ATM in the airport, so we had to catch a taxi and drive to the closest bank. Not an easy task since our taxi driver spoke only Chinese, he didn’t understand the word “bank” and he didn’t have a clue when we were waving some dollars in front of him. At the end we found a bank and also some luck.
The clerk was very nice. She spoke English and instructed the taxi driver to bring us to the Giant shop downtown Urumqi. She understood that we were some kind of “alpinist”….
