The Baicheng Landforms in Xinjiang are how I’d imagine the surface of Mars to look. Vast and barren with rich reds and browns.
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Sheep 🐑, cows 🐄, camels 🐪, and goats 🐐 all for sale at Kashgar’s livestock market.
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An evening wandering the dark, smokey streets of Kashgar’s Old City.
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The legendary Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine near Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China.
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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”.
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Distant views from a short hike over the Tiemenguan, the end of the Great Wall of China in Korla, Xinjiang, and a key passage on the Silk Road.
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The incredible sculptures at the Longmen Grottoes, painstakingly carved out of rock over several hundred years.
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The Longmen Grottoes are truly spectacular. So many sculptures ranging from 2cm to several metres tall. It’d be an incredible feat to construct them today with modern tools, let alone 1,500 years ago!
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The vast, impressive, and arid landscapes of Gansu Province in Western China.
