the steads
Green fields, desert, barren mountains and snow covered peaks. everything.
Looking for yurts or a place to camp but just found oil well pump.
Nomad lowland shelter, possibly.
putt putt
Itching for a fix.
Han(Hu?) woman whose place we camped at and got fed watermelons
big cheese
Shy kid not sure who it belonged to cos supposedly the man and woman living there were brother and sister...
Daria poking around in the remains of an ancient city but cant remember name.
Ahh no tourists but not a whole lot to see either.
Fun being able to explore with no one around
not sure if these were catacombs or the like or newer buildings because there wasnt really much left of the rest of city apart from some walls and piles of dirt .
Inside
Vathson looking tall
Climbing down a hole to see what was at the bottom. There was a small empty cavern off the side and no spiders thankfully.
Crossing the dessert/semi-grasslands to Qtai. Meet a nice man who gave us some nice big juicy tomatoes.
Off to chase some camels
hamming it up
going to pester more big ol' camels
Prolly trying to un-jam the lense on camera
Bike all loaded up minus vathson
Camping in the cold hills next to an old Kazakh couple in their felt yurt.
mmm warm.
Off for a walk up the hill
Fresh snow!
Kazakh kids who wernt really that sad
A blond kid. You see a few fair haired folk about, not sure if it comes from the Russians or who. You also see blue eyes too.
No bulls in this country!
Lots of Muslim architecture in Urumqi
MMMM lots of melons. Been eating my share!
Kazakh girl from the mountains
They were muslim hans which come from the original hans which settled there hundreds of years ago. not from the more recent flood of hans to the area who receive incentives from the government to move west.
Where we went swimming after we werent allowed in to Heavenly Lake as we refused to pay 100quay. Water seemed of questionable quality.
Tourist trap yurts. Should catch a few Hans.
Darie doing it chinese man style with the belly out when it gets too hot.
