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Another long day's drive along long straight roads (still good old G219!), with few settlements, lots of mountains, wide open landscapes and the best wildlife encounters of the trip.
Today's drive would see us depart Tibet and cross the Aksai Chin, entering Xinjiang and setting up camp, for the last time, at Dahongliutan. Not that we could tell when we crossed any of those all important lines of control.
Persuaded by Carol to break camp early to allow for a stroll along the road, we were all ecstatic when the jeeps did catch us up - it was freezing in the long shadows.
Initially the plateau remained covered in sparse green grass, with the reds, oranges, golds and purples coming through in surrounding mountains, but as we drove onwards and upwards the terrain turned harsher and snowtopped peaks reappeared as did narrower river valleys, and the technicolour palette disappeared.
Crossing over into the Aksai Chin there were plenty of reminders that, as far as Beijing is concerned, we were in Chinese territory - marker posts, sign boards and a semi-submerged hotel on the shores of the Lungma Tso.
We saw more wild animals than humans - several pairs of Tibetan antelope once we'd crossed the Jieshan Daban pass (5,200 m), had a close encounter with large eagle a little further on. Later in the day as we off roaded a short cut, we passed an outcrop where more birds of prey were nesting - not being a birder, i can't remember what they were - possibly Lammergeier.
As the afternoon wore on our route took us along long stretches of dead straight road, no tarmac as yet but it won't stay that way for long; we saw a large army camp unmarked on the map - I'm sure there are more.
Crossing the Khitai Pass (5,150 m) pass brought us face to face with Xinjiang - with our first sighting of signage in Uyghur. The greens and reds were long gone, and the rest of the day we drove through grey river valleys, and dust.
We camped at kilometre marker 480…. 8 km beyond the army town of Dahongluitan. Setting up camp proved a challenge - not just because of the wind that was blowing katabatic-like down the valley… we were camping amidst a patchwork of shell craters, presumably on the (hopefully disused!) Dahongluitan firing range. You can see the shell holes on Google Maps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahongliutan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_219
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksai_Chin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_antelope
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammergeier
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabatic_wind
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Saw this post with the rope wrapped around it and thought it looked good. I wondered if people looking at it would think I took it at the coast or on the river. It was actually in the pub garden and was used to rope off areas, but had broken.
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This is a vintage Post Card from my grandmother
This is a vintage Post Card from my grandmother's collection
Franklin County. Photo by J Gallagher, 1973.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
With dusk approaching, some Cromer gulls take a rest.
Of all the lights on the Runton road at Cromer, only one had seagulls on it!
Catalog #: 02-P-00306
Last Name: Post
First Name: Wiley
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Journal Entry three.
Date: Unknown
"Hmm .. Can't really say how many days i have been since we left that working spot, i guess around Two og Three, Anyway me and pete followed the tracks of the Murderes or Killers. we followed the road a day i think and then the tracks startet going in to the forrest kinda. after some time we enden up in at place where there wasent that many trees and we could se one of the killers but i think hey where hill billys you know the stereio type you know the one that cant read and likes gun, hmm .. That Guard was not a problem Pete ended his life fast and i took his ak and gave pete my gun. we wen't up to the camp. the walls wasen't that big, big enough to i coulden see over it and just spary with my new ak and pete startet shooting to it diddent take long time for us to end them. we took there ammo and food and left in case there would be more og them."
Post com looks de tricots: saia, vestido, blusas, e tem ate uma bolsa lindona!
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