Another good breakfast at the Sultan hotel, and then a ramble around town. Maghnus went to see the largest statue of Chairman Mao and to visit the various food stalls, Christa and I went to visit the largest mosque in Xinjian, rather old and rather special. Oddly enough, Kevin was forbidden to enter and it turned out that it was because he has a full beard and moustache; Christa, fortunately, has no such facial adornment and was given full reign (despite having no head scarf). We then visited the local street market area and at 1.30 pm Beijing time checked-out and headed for the railway station. Interesting chat with our taxi driver who spoke excellent English and has a travel business, having retired from 10 years of working in the civil service. The station (as we
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