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Gujun Hotel Dunhuang

No.31 Mingshan Rd. Dunhuang, Gansu, China

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Edge of the Gobi

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... game. It made me wonder if our lights weren't working properly. When we weren't trying to blind drivers with brights, we drove in the left (wrong) lane for some unknown reasons. We concluded that the only logical reason for the driver's behavior was because he is 'nuts'. We were driving through farm country. And out of the darkness, farm carts and tractors would appear on the road without any lights what-so-ever. At other ...

Verdant Trees, Light Khaki Sands & Cerulean Sky

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... in Catholic churches. She pointed out the feminine features of the massive sculpture of the Reclining Buddha. Of them all, this is the one cave he wanted to photograph. The second best thing to our own photos can be found on Dunhuang Academy website: http://enweb.dha.ac.cn/0028/index.htm

LIBRARY CAVE #17
In 1900, men working for Wang Yuan-lu accidently discovered a cave that was sealed up in the 11th century containing ...

Silk Road, Day 2: Camels

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... awhile, all the caves looked so similar....

That night we went to see a show called the Dunhuang Goddess. It was a Chinese acrobatics show about a girl in a painting called 'deer girl'. Those people are so flexible!! There were these little kids dressed up as bunny rabbits and they could fit themselves into these small tin cylinders! The acrobatics were so awesome and it really amazes me to see what people can do.
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Night market drunkeness & desert mosquitoes

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... they had a group wanting to do the tour. So we met up with a German giant (225cm tall!) who spoke fluent Mandarin, and went to John's Information Café, to meet a Swiss couple and two more French guys. After another late night at the night market I slept through my alarm, which is not surmising as it was set for 05:45, and I went to bed at 02:30! But the driver and the Swiss couple, who were staying at the same guest house as me, banged on my door until ...

Jiayuguan - Dunhuang

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... route de la soie, elle abrite une collection de centaines de grottes decorees de peintures et statues bouddhistes retracant plusieurs siecles d'histoire chinoise, et ayant fait le plus grand bonheur des Indiana Jones europeens du debut du XXe siecle.

Aux portes de la ville donc, les dunes, egalement erigees en attraction majeure pour tout touriste passant dans le coin. Il faut s'imaginer ...