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Death Cave
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Tashidele from Tholing and Tsaparang, Tibet, home of the ancient ruins of the Guge kingdom. Today we explored some ancient caves with headlamps and found a cave covered in human bones, clothes and even mummies from the 7th cent. due to the extreme lack of humidity, many of the bones still had skin on them, even a fingernail was on one of the mumified hands we found.
However, after our cave experience and breathing all the "dust of death" we drove immediatly back to Tholing and took showers. We must have breathed in tons of ancient dust particles from all the decaying clothes and bodies - and they are over 1000 yrs old! it was wild. we also got to see the ruins of the Guge castle out here in this huge desert-like canyon with steep sandstone rock walls that shoot up from the desert earth.
We have been enjoying some really good food here! Uyghur food all the way, yangrouchuanr, lamian, ganbanmian, chaoyangrou and more goodies.
Tomorrow we are headed to Ali (Gar) (Shiquanhe) and from there up to Xinjiang - Uyghurland!
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