Gobi desert - oasis of Turfan

Arrived 5:am this morning off the night train from Dunhuang. Soft class. Slept well. Tea in compartment. We are 500 ft below sea level, in the Uighur area. They are ethnically Turkik people, moslems. Today we shall see more Buddhist caves connecting the route Buddhism was spread from India along the SR. Warmer we have left the snow behind
Ttfn

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