Desert Driving 2

One Kangaroo and a White Elephant

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August 17th 2008
I am currently in Turpan. It is so different from the China that we have seen so far. . We feel like we have hit the real Silk Road now. We left Dunhuang on Friday . It was a big day of driving through the desert - 500km and 14hrs of pretty much continuous driving. There were big sand dunes around Dunhuang (we hired bikes and rode out to the dunes which was good to get out of town a bit ... read more

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Turpan

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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