I could not
sleep well last night either for the heavy trucks passing by although we were
about 700 meters away from the road, or for the noisy mice behind my tent. I
got out my tent a couple of times and saw really beautiful sky, full of stars.
It has been a long time since I had seen a starry night like that.
We were camping
in the desert; we needed to wake up really early to avoid packing up in blazing
sun. We were on the road by 7:30 after having breakfast. We had a very fast
start due to loosing elevation and a gentle tail wind. At 1 pm, we arrived in a
village where there was a river. We bought pasta and water, and went to the
river bank. How refreshing it was to take a bath in the river. Then a good
pasta! But the temperature was really high. We waited until 3:45 to start
again. Before that, some kids from the village gathered around us and tried to
make some sort of communication. From there on, we were riding in boiling
weather and in a desert! The road was also the worst with a lot of bumps.
At 6:30, with no
good camping spot at sight, we had to either keep going and suffer until we
hopefully find some good spot, or to seek shelter under the shade of some trees
and wait for a little tolerable temperature to pitch up our tent. We stopped.
After having
instant noodle, we are now trying to sleep. Tomorrow is a big day. We will
cross Chinese border.
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| The Kids from the Village Paid us a Visit |
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