have two stories for you which shouldn't become dinner table conversations as both relate to being ill while travelling. I'm now at the station in Deheyan near Turpan still in Xinjiang. I'll tell the latest story first as it just happened and im still in good spirits and then the first from Tajikistan . Today I spend the day on a Tour with Chinese people to a mixture of sights around the oasis city of ancient times. We visited ancient Buddhists caves ransacked by Europeans in the first decades of the 20th century, whole ancient cities in the middle of a big river which was hacked from the bedrock and a couple of other interesting sites including flaming mountains and some 12century tombs. For lunch, under a beautiful trellis of grapevines fully laden ready for
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