Stretching our legs on a 6km there-and-back trek to break up the drive from Baicheng to Aksu.

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The ruins of Subashi, an ancient temple complex in the Taklamakan Desert, used continuously from the 3rd to 10th centuries. Subash is a Uyghur word meaning “the origin of water”.