Possibly the greatest sunday market on Earth – Kashgar, China
Every Sunday 50,000 people gather in the westernmost town in China for the Kashgar animal market, the only place to buy and sell goods in an area the size of Europe.
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Karakul Lake, Karakoram – Taxkorgan, China
The mirror-like surface of Karakul lake near Karakoram
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I need a shower – Hotan, China
Inner Mongolia is very, very dusty, so by the time we got to Hotan we were ready to clean up
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Grapes – Turpan, China
Our visit to the Turpan Wine Festival doesn't turn up any exciting vintages
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Clothes Sizes – Dunhuang, China
I finally find some new clothes in Dunhuang. I'd be insulted if I wasn't so relieved
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Western End of the Great Wall – Jiayuguan, China
Jiayuguan Fort - the last point on the Great Wall and the last stop before we crossed the Gobi Desert
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Back to work – Lanzhou, China
It's not all holiday on such a long journey - some maintenance needed to be done by the time we reached Lanzhou
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No, really, we’re in Tibet – Xiahe, Tibet, China
A couple of days in Xiahe, a town on the China/Tibet border that contains more Tibetans than Lhasa (the capital of Tibet).
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