Jason, our guide, has been asking around what the road will be like for today. Bad is the answer.. very bad! We are very much worried as this means the steering stabilisor could break again and we could strand in…

The city Urumqi is located the furthest from every ocean. So this also counts for the SOS-Village in Urumqi. We meet Montee, one of the staff members in front of our hotel and drive to the village. On the way…

We are quite tired when we wake up. The KTV (karaoke bar) in the same building and a scorching heating system kept us awake most of the night. So a bit groggy we jump in the car and leave for…

Ninety percent of the internetcafe¡¯s we find just cater for gamers and have banned the use of floppy disks to prevent themselves from virusses. Till late at night we wonder around Turpan but with no luck. When we get back…

Sometimes, during your travel you find that one place that hasn¡¯t been discovered by the mass tourism industry. It is one of those places you are not sure of if you should share it with the rest or keep it…

Boring can be beautiful, we did not know that. . The road from Urumqi to Lanzhou in West-China runs in a straight line through the desert. Sometimes the deserted landscape is broken by a dusty little town or a tollgate…

When thinking of desert sand dunes, the first thing that will probably come up in your mind is the Sahara desert and the second thing is a blistering heat. Guess what, we are in Dunhuang China in front of 500…

We feel kinda sad leaving Dunhuang. Why…? Well, because it has a nice and cosy feeling to it but even more because of the everlasting impression the sanddunes and the Mogao caves made on us. We have to drive back…

Michel: My god….we¡¯re not going to make it! Elles: Mmmmhh… what¡¯s happening? Michel: Euuuhh sorry… i was having a bad dream… never mind…better get some sleep. Elles: Watch out for that car!!! Michel: Mmmmmmh what do you mean car.. somebody…

Zangye is famous for it reclining Buddha statue, apparently the biggest in China. After seeing the immense statues at Dunhuang, we are up for it although we are still tired. Driving in China hasn’t come easy. Very bad roads, sand…