Aksu, China

... as well, to refrain from taking pictures of ‘old places’ because we might sell them to journalists who will make China look bad. Again, I smirk. So there is amongst us, a curious debate over what constitutes an ‘old place’ because ...

After setting off our first stop is the town Aksu, which just kind of springs up from a nothingness, into this bublling little metropolis of a city. We stayed in a beautiful hotel, which was weird because we were all prepared to be roughing it bush ...

... agreed.  As with the last Uighur truck driver this local ethnic Han driver is unlike the other truck drivers from eastern China, he understands the concept of giving a stranger a ride and does not have many doubts about me as an inherent danger.  ...

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