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Turpan - Western China
... dignitaries have been preserved for over 1000 years due to the extreme climatic conditions. Sadly the Bezeklik Caves are not so well preserved. In 1905 German archaeologists cut away the murals and put them in a museum in Berlin which was bombed in the Second World War. British and other European archaeologists followed and some of the treasures ended up in the British museum. Many of the remaining frescos were destroyed during the cultural revolution in the ...
Turpan
... me to six of the sights and it was quite interesting. We are still in the desert, so these places look a bit Arabic. The first stop was the thousand Buddha's Caves. There really are only about 10 caves open to the public and I’m not sure where the other caves are. These caves were really nothing compared to some of the Buddhist Caves I have seen in India, but I’m sure in the next week, I’ll see some great caves. ...
Episode 14
... were some of the group that were not happy at having to travel that far in one hit. D for one doesn’t like doing those long trips, Robin and Keely thinks its too far too. They have only 400cc bikes (whatever that means) and find it quite tiring, especially after the long ride yesterday. It was very much the same expect that they didn’t get quite as early a start. It also got a bit nerve racking when it was discovered that the highway was brand new ...
Hot in the Desert...
... store to buy water….all their drinks were cold ie. refrigerated or frozen…..Sooo different from the rest of China and so welcome as the temperature rose towards 40.
After 2 hours wandering about, ticking off the local market (mostly asleep) and failing to find any restaurants as we had been used to further East, we settled into a street side café under the grapevines for a cold beverage. Tim drank beer and I coke…not sure as to the local sensibilities yet. ...
Silk in the dust of Turpan
... board, much to the interest of passers-by. In the time it took me to messily eat my dumplings and slurp down its scalding hot broth, it was clear who would win, and our bus arriving soon was the only thing that saved me from total humiliation at the hands of our new friend.
He had found a Chinese girlfriend, and was plotting ways to stay with her either in China or Canada, and both options seemed unlikely. A look in his eyes somehow gave us the impression that he was ...
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