Mountain Village Dunhuang

... constant travel, so we decided to take it really easy. We spent the morning exploring the dunes. <br>We all decided against the camel rides but decided to go for the jeep safari across the dunes. <br>Quite good fun. The sand below the surface actually consists of tiny and heavy-ish bits of stone. The dunes don't really get pushed out of shape because of this. The surface sand just gets blown up by the ...

After Qinghai we left for the Gobi Desert and the city of Jiayuguan. Our first stop was Jiayuguan Fortress which is at the very end of the Great Wall. It acted as a border check station for any travelers going into or out of China. It was also attacked a few times by invaders. And they had all sorts of dangerous activities for us to try!! Refer to pictures for details. <br><br>Jiayuguan as a city though sucked. It was a pretty big city, but it was like there weren't enough ...

We spent an uneventful night in another faceless Chinese Hotel eating great food from local restaurants. Note to anyone wanting to lose weight, try a total chinese diet, it works. The morning dawned bright and clear and we set off to one of the major focal points of this part of the trip. The Mogao Caves. <br><br>Finally a tourist stop for the Tombies. Simply put this is one of the greatest deposits of Buddhist art in the world. As ...

... mais c'était quand même bien cool. <br><br>Au retour du trek, puisqu'on était pas alles si profond dans les dunes pour dormir (nous on était en chameau mais pas le guide et comprehensiblement il n'était pas en humeur de grimper des montagnes de sables de la hauteur de Bromont), on s'est organisés une deuxième expédition par nous mêmes, à pied. On s'est bien équipés avec nos litres d'eau etc pour survivre au désert ...

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... except we are having internet problems again, although the 'no pay' record still stands as they gave up on us last night as their cobbled together system wouldn't work for long enough. Here it was 'here's a modem, change all your settings to ours and good luck' I'm not willing to do that, as with my level of expertise, I may not be able to get it back at the next stop. Tomorrow we have to travel south for about 30 ks then it's back onto the 312 Silk Road to Hami.<br>

... a bit so it didn't take us another 4,5 hours to get to camp but had enough time to set up my tent, have two beer i had been carrying in my back pannier for 30 km's. Dinner was served...a nice bowl of spaghetti bolognese, there were no leftovers as you can imagine.. we all were a little hungry. DAY 123 "8 hours an hour...." - desertcamp - 140km ...is what I did for many hours of the day..8km's!! The morning started off ok, Max and I were solving all worlds problems, but once ...

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... into little glasses that are typically used for baijiu - the Chinese rice wine. Well, that's what it was. Our mistake - the tour guide, in her translation of the word baijiu (which actually means 'white wine') misled us into thinking that we were actually getting grape wine, not rice wine...oh well, it was a nice baijiu...All in all, it was a nice stop and I definitely recommend it. After that we stopped off for some lunch at ...

... carved into the rock walls and then filled with Buddhist artwork and statues from different time within Chinese history. There has been various amounts of damage done over the centuries such as flooding, earthquakes and then people. They were found by a monk in 1900 and he spent his life restoring them. Sadly badly in places. He also found loads of scrolls and paintings and sold them off to various people from countries such as England, France and Russia. He needed the ...