Dec 12, 2016
rezaphotography Grapes coming from elsewhere #Chatgal, #Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) In Chatgal, the Karez – the underground irrigation system invented by the Persians more than two thousand years ago – are supplying the vineyard and the cotton fields with water. In this region – the world’s hottest region where temperatures can reach 70 degrees – the melting of the Bogda mountains glaciers supply with water the thousand karez which spread in the desert. A woman is working in a vineyard field. Photograph captured while doing a reportage on the Xinjiang for National Geographic. Text by Rachel Deghati, published in "Sur les routes de la Soie" (Hoëbeck publishing, 2007).