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1 000 kilometers can be a long way to travel in one sitting. Let me rephrase that: 1 000 kilometers IS a long way to travel in one sitting! Unfortunately that's approximately the distance one would have to cover in order to get back from border town of Kashgar to the capital of Urumqi. The Taklamakan Desert offers only a few small towns along its northern edges as relief during this journey and beyond large stretches of flat desert there ...Details

“I’m sorry I must have heard you wrong” I told the men at the gate in Chinese. “Tell me again how much will it cost for me and my friends to enter the park?” One of the gate guards repeated himself slowly and with better pronunciation but the price remained the same.

“Are you kidding me? The price on the ticket doesn’t say that much! What’s the extra charge for?” I was getting a little frustrated.

“The car.”
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