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Lifting stations

The Great Wall by train

July 10th 2005
I was woken up by the loud cries of my fellow companions in the carriage: there was apparently something extraordinary to see, they were filming and staring out of the windows. I looked out with my bleary eyes to see a lanscape of sand and small hills, barely higher than sand dunes, clearly the end of the Gobi. However exciting this may be, I saw little to justify such excitement and thought the B ... read more
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