Monthly Archives: September 2015

The breakfast at the hotel this morning was really delicious. It was wonderful to get a full American breakfast buffet for a change! We met our guide, Victor, in the lobby at 8:30 this morning. The crazy bus driver drove … Continue reading →

   Our hotel serves mainly a Chinese breakfast with very little western food. I enjoyed watching a chef make noodles, so I made a short movie of his technique   After breakfast we drove to the fort at the western end … Continue reading →

We left the hotel in Dunhuang at 8:30 A.M. for a five-hour drive to Jiayuguan. The countryside looked similar to the dry gobi land on our train ride with wind farms and an occasional small settlement.     We stopped twice … Continue reading →