Tourist entrance to the sand dunes - Dunhaung

Sand Dunes, Buddha Statues and Fresco's - Dunhuang

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June 8th 2007
GUANSU, CHINA - (June 2007) Tues 5th - Fri 8th June - (Lanzhou) Today Hee and myself were to leave the Tibetan part of China and head into the Chinese desert. We left Xiahe around 7am and headed to Lanzhou were we arrived around mid morning. There's not much to say about Lanzhou as we didn't stop very long. The town is on the edge of the desert and has quite a big Muslim population and ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more