We arrived in Urumqi late Monday night from Beijing. It was a scramble to get a taxi from the airport because there were many passengers and fewer taxi operators than usual. The driver of the original taxi we'd booked could not come out of the city, he said, because many of the areas were blockaded.
There was a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed soon after the unrest and that was indeed obvious Tuesday morning. We were out on the streets at 6 a.m. when it was still very dark.
Our taxi was stopped twice but we managed to talk our way through the police blockades; they checked our IDs and then waved us through. 
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