... and always blue skies!

Traveling the Xinkiang-Tibet Highway

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September 22nd 2007
Reached Lhasa on Sept 19. Left Kashgar together with Imma & Pep, the crazy Catalans :-), and Joe from Switzerland. On the 2nd day out of Kashgar, a few kms after Yarkant we met the "Yakman" Claude Marthaler and Nathalie. We were just talking about broken rims, as I discovered that my backrim was broken as well! I didn't like this decision but I was so close to Kashgar, so I decided to go back to g ... 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