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missing it
Day 396: 83团 (Regiment 83) = 0km I didn’t leave. I walked around the village until I found some old structures: …and the desert park behind them: It wasn’t a very big desert. In fact, it was tiny as...
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dirty pearl
Day 402: 赛里木湖 (Sayram Lake) = 0km I was going to stay in my yurt all day: But there was the presence of that massive body of water nearby. The lake. So I stepped outside and left the yurt camp: I came...
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the rolling of the clouds
Day 404: 龙陵山庄 (Longling Hotel) = 0km When I peaked outside my window, it was rainy, and I was glad I had chosen to stay in for the day: Heavy clouds came rolling over the mountains, and the sky changed...
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look closer
Day 407: 果子沟牧场 (Guozigou pasture) – 芦草沟 = 14,9km 2012-08-28 show on larger map Sometimes we have to look a bit closer in order to find what we’ve been looking for: (Note that it says 旅社 – “hotel” in...
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nine inch lakes
Day 423: [喀什 (Kashgar)] = 0km Ever heard of Karakul – the “black lake” in the Pamir Mountains? We figured we were pretty close to it, so we hopped into a cab, stopped to buy some food and got on our...
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dessert in the desert
Day 425: [和田 (Hotan)] = 0km Yes, I know it’s a tacky title. Anyway… We took a train ride along the Southern rim of the Taklamakan desert today. From 喀什 (Kashgar) to 和田 (Hotan) in a bit more than 9...
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the good lunch
day 362: 大丰镇 (Dafengzhen) 玛纳斯 (Manas) = 36,5km 2010-09-09 on larger map I got up at six and started walking a half hour later, when our part of the world was still completely covered in darkness:...
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sexy time immemorial
day 367: 石河子 (Shihezi) = 0km My friends 辉辉 (Huihui), 祁师傅 (Master Qi) and 李娜 (Li Na) got me into a car and drove up to the 天山 (Tianshan) mountains today: It was very beautiful up there… …where the sheep...
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mountain people
day 376: [奎屯 (Kuytun)] = 0 km Since we had nothing better to do, 辉辉 (Huihui) and 雷晟 (Lei Cheng) took me to the mountains today. It was very nice and relaxing: I fell asleep a bunch of times on the warm...
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certificate of participation
day 379: [乌鲁木齐 (Ürümqi)] = 0 km Having been rejected by many a hotel the night before, I eventually managed to find an awesome place that offered room and board in a stadium: Awesome. There was a...
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