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Friday, Jiayuguan to Xi’an ~ September 11, 2015

   Our hotel serves mainly a Chinese breakfast with very little western food. I enjoyed watching a chef make noodles, so I made a short movie of his technique   After breakfast we drove to the fort at the western end … Continue reading

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September 10, 2015 ~ Dunhuang to Jiayuguan

We left the hotel in Dunhuang at 8:30 A.M. for a five-hour drive to Jiayuguan. The countryside looked similar to the dry gobi land on our train ride with wind farms and an occasional small settlement.     We stopped twice … Continue reading

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September 9, 2015 ~ From Grottos to Camels

The hotel breakfast buffet had a lot of variety this morning. We actually were the first to arrive at breakfast because we had an 8:15 A.M. show time at the Mogao Grottos.        At the grottos we were given … Continue reading

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