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Windfarm windmills Waiting for the riders at lunch stop Tibetan restuarant waitresses and Duck This load defies gravity and road rules These strange cement life size statues of animals along the way do raise a smile The jumbled signs we see... TDA Olympic torch an old oil soaked mop Taklamakan Desert near Kashgar Sunset over camp Sundowner time at camp Loise Jimmy Manon Knut Graeme Striking dunes Snow covered Qilian Mountains Sgins in 3 languages illustrates the region s diversity Scorpions for dinner... Rural grape drying houses Proud Chinese flag Photographer on a bike Manon Passing remnants of the Great Wall Ornate brocades on sale in street markets Night market Dunhuang Nicole and Dan New pylons traverse the desert Murals in Mogao caves Dunhuang Miles s field kitchen Miles and miles of pipe being laid through the desert Max Massive construction marks all Chinese freeways Manon being blown away in a gale we cyled through all day Man s new construction vs nature s ancient works Long early morning shadows leaving Turpan Local colour Live pupae for eating at the night market in Dunhuang Joost on the sraight and flat 1 Inside a Generals bedroom in the Jiayuguan fort Incense burner at shrine in the land of fireworks graeme start of a rest day with bike tubes and beer Graeme louise and Mike Good laughs over a beer Joost Louise and Mike Generals quarters in the Fort Flaming Mountains Flagging tape marks lunch in a howling gale First double humped Bactrian Camel fast downhill into China Fall colours Entry gate to Jiayuguan Fort Each road light has its own solar cell Dune entrance at Dunhuang Downtown Jiayuguan Donkeys for sale Dinner huddled around a welcome fire Desert colours Crescent Moon lake wells up in the dunes Cold desert riding Clive and Stewart taking a breather in the desert Clive and Joost Chris a crazy german walking from Beijing to Germany Chinese graveyard Chinese Buddhas look happy Chinese bike shop Cheerful kids Camp near old brickworks Camels in front of Flaming Mountains near Turpan Billboard in the middle of the desert prclaiming China s prosperity Beers on arrival to Dunhuang after 6 long days of cycling Bad air pollution seems a constant near Jiayuguan Archery for the tourists in the Jiayuguan Fort Approach road to oasis of Dunhuang An old lonely figure on a huge modern highway All his eggs in one basket Al leading racer Aerated buildings for drying grapes Turpan Across Alay plateau A welcome refreshment stop A welcome from a melon seller A fine haze of dust obscures A courting couple.. Mike and Clive leaving from Turpan Hotel