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China Tour 2013
Silk Road (New Orient Express Train),Yangtze River Cruise
by Sinorama Holidays
Turpan, 11 June 2013
Posted 2013-07-08
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From the train we saw some of the China oil fields. |
| Leaving the train we snapped our attendant and our Tour director, Leo Liu. |
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On the bus, I marvelled at the four lane highway through the desert, with a very wide median to minimize problems from blowing sand. We stopped at a tourist information centre where our local guide bought tickets for the day's excursions. And a bit of rainbow appeared in the sky. |
| A typical lunch (our table in the foreground), and a view of Turpan from the bus. (Just a little town on the Silk Road!) |
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This visit is to the "Flaming Mountain", one of the locations
in the Classical Chinese novel "Journey to the West". Alice & Andrew, and Sew & Paul get memorialized. |
| A couple of warriors upended, and a huge thermometer displays the ground temperature, almost 60C. |
| A sleeping camel, an oil well, and our Tour Director & local tour guide. |
| A photo of some cliff openings, but I do not remember where. |
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On the way back we visited a local family in their open air house.
Not sure where they live in the very cold winter. They did a traditional dance, offered us some of their wine, and had raisins available for sale. We found them quite expensive, at 200 Yuan ($35) for a kilogram (although we do not often buy a kilogram of raisins). They said the tree near their entry was very old. |
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Dancers greeted us as we entered the restaurant for supper. And to announce Andrew's contribution of a cooked lamb. |