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Noodles met ezelevlees
... eten gebracht: Eerst behangplakselsoep met bonen en een soort broodje bapau, ook met bonen. Een of andere gefrituurde stengel en gestoomde dumplings.
Na een korte rit staan we aan een grottencomplex Mogao, door allerlei dynastieen verder uitgegraven en beschilderd. Van buiten is dat weinig opwindend: ze hebben er, in plaats van de originele hout met leem voorgevels een betonnen bunkermuur voorgezet, ter bescherming. Die hebben ze dan ...
Dry as the Gobi Desert
... everything smells like pee - including the two men that are in the cabin with me. And the toilet - well lets just say its the thing that nightmares are made of.
We arrive at Dunhuang around 10am (the train was almost a hour late incidentally), after a fairly breathtaking train journey through the Gobi desert. Most people call this enormous desert that runs through north western China and southern Mongolia the Gobi desert, but actually its two separate deserts - ...
Edge of the Gobi
... 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 ...
1700 Year Old Caves
Yesterday, the 21st, we arrived in Dunhuang on the train at about 7am. As we rode in, we realized that all the books and photos hadn't lied - Dunhuang really is in the desert, the Gobi to be exact, and it really does have honest-to-god, huge sand dunes. It's an amazing place.
The train station, which is the same color as the desert sand, looks like some kind of oversized Egyptian palace. We took a ...
Day 3 - Trekking towards border with Xinjiang
Early start to the day as we have a long bus journey to Yu Men Guan and Devil city - at the border of Gansu and Xinjiang provinces.
On arrival some 2+ hrs, we trekked 15km at Yu Men Guan in the morning, and another 13km at Devil city after lunch... returning to our hotel on another 3hrs bus ...
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