"Watermelon"?

Mud

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August 22nd 2010
The next morning the three of us (me, Kayleigh and the other American we shared a yurt with) packed up, said goodbye to our Kyrgyz family, and stood by the road to try and flag down a bus. Karakul Lake didn’t seem to be an actual bus stop so we just tried to get anything we could. Finally a bus from Tashkurgan stopped for a photo and pee break. A little boy squatted down and had diarrhea basi ... read more

Asia » China » Xinjiang

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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