Posted in DunHuang on Sep 30th, 2009
Left Zhatong, a town in Yunnan famous for apple fruit, due to landslide, the convoy was held up for an hour in Xialongtan, a small town on the highway to Kunming to be cleared. When we left the Xialongtan and stopped at Petro China in Zhongzhai for diesel at around 12.15pm, a lose coupling in [...]
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Posted in DunHuang on Sep 19th, 2009
Reach DunHuang this morning, 19th Sept 2009. 1.30am, after non-stop travelling from XinJiang. Rushing to DunHuang, to get KariKok’s air conditioner fixed. Crossing Taklamakan Desert without Air Cond was a nightmare for KariKok, with all the fine sand blowing into the Land Crusier, he could barely see the road. But bad luck, he was not [...]
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