Jiayuguan

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Day 8...


Travel Expenses
*** Total: 112RMB ***
Bike Rental: 6RMB for 1 Day from Jiugang Hotel
Entry to Jiayuguan Pass: 30RMB
Entry to Overhanging Great Wall: 20RMB
Local Transport, Food and Others: 25RMB

Overnight Train from Jiayuguan to Dunhuang: 31RMB
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                ~ Train Code: N857
                ~ Type: No Seater!!!
                ~ Departure: 0332
                ~ Arrival: 0755
                ~ Travel Time: 04Hrs 23Mins (297km)


*Overland Distance Covered So Far: 3,469km



My overnight train from Lanzhou to Jiayuguan


Morning sunrise from train across the desert


Arriving at Jiayuguan train station early in the morning


Numerous camel figurines along one of the road, as camels are important symbol of the Silk Road


Rented a bike and went to Jiayuguan Pass, the first pass at the western end of the Great Wall of China


Approaching Jiayuguan walls


Snow-capped Qilian Shan faraway


Entrance of Jiayuguan




Views from within the walls


Knocking this rock with small stones amazingly produces sound of a crying swallow


Generals planning the defence of the fort


You can have a go at these targets to test your archery skills


One of the entrance through the walls


You can do camel riding here too to have a taste of the Gobi Desert


This is the main pass, from which you will reach the Gobi Desert upon exit


Stretch of the still standing narrow strip of the Great Wall running all the way towards Qilian Shan


Men to the right! Horses to the left!




Wonderful view of the pass


Numerous buildings within the fortress itself


Entrance to the small museum


Very beautiful painting of Jiayuguan Pass


When merchants from the west meet the east


Map of the Silk Road


Weapon artefacts




Model of Jiayuguan Pass


Cycling along the highway that cut across the Gobi Desert


With my China Lonely Planet! =p


Recently restored Overhanging Great Wall


Built among some very treacherous terrains


View of an oasis within the Gobi Desert


Typical Chinese door with couplet by the sides


Little section of the western edge of the Great Wall


Railway cutting through the desert


First fire tower of the Great Wall, that marks the beginning of the western section of the Ming Great Wall


Here comes the train


Cycling through the Gobi Desert is really strenuous, under these extreme conditions


Jiayuguan seen from afar


Back to Jiayuguan train station to take my overnight train to Dunhuang

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