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Ill in the desert – Turpan, China

Camping near Turpan

Camping near Turpan

This is short because I was mostly ill for these 4 days. We spent full days driving through the desert, with a mixture of hotels and wild camps.

Highlights include:

  • A near fight in a market when a lady tried to charge us GBP14 for what should have been a 50p meal.
  • Sitting outside Mogao caves because I didn’t want to throw up on an important Buddhist relic.
  • Sitting in a hairdressers, getting laughed by Chinese people at for my (excellent) impression of a pair of clippers
  • Coming out of a hairdressers and getting laughed at by my truckmates for my (excellent) haircut.
  • Camping on a farm in the middle of nowhere and wandering about all night in pitch darkness trying to find ground soft enough to dig a hole for the toilet.
  • Waking up 2 hours later and not being able to find the hole again.
  • Waking up 2 hours later and not being able to find the hole again.
  • Waking up 2 hours later and not being able to find the hole again.
  • Getting up in the morning and falling in the hole (thankfully not)

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