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Day 60 (13th July) Wushan There was an optional tour to see the White King Castle on an island but it was raining and very misty. We would have got … Read more

The Guiguojingdu complex of temples is located on the top of Mount Ming at Fengdu and is reached from the river either by climbing 400 steps or by taking a … Read more

IMPORTANT NOTICE Can anybody reading this tell Sandy that we have not been murdered, imprisoned or kidnapped. He can follow us on this blog. Also tell our dear neighbour Mo … Read more

This was a lazy day. I booked the Yangtse cruise at a travel agency on the ground floor of the hotel and then we went for a meal to a … Read more

When we arrived in Xi’an, we got a taxi and asked the driver to take us to a hotel. He took us to the Hilton, which is very expensive by … Read more

We got a taxi to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda where Xuan Zang returned from India in 645 to translate the Buddhist texts brought from India and write his Great … Read more

Day 53 (6th July) Jiayuquan to Xi’an The hotel booked a flight to Xi’an for us, let us stay in the room until 14.30 and then took us in their … Read more

There was no problem getting tickets for the train from Dunhwang back to Jiayuquan and, as opposed to the 380 yuan coming it was only 129 leaving for “hard seats”. … Read more

We got a taxi to the Visitor Centre of the Mingsha Shan (Mingsha Mountain) with magnificent sand dunes hundreds of metres high, a temple and the Crescent Lake. The temple … Read more

Day 50 (3rd July) Dunhwang We got a taxi to the Mogao Caves Visitor Centre and joined about a million other people in the queue for tickets, about twice as … Read more