we woke at 7am and had a manky breakfast at the hotel and i ent back to bed for a nap before we left for the 20 minutes bus ride to our camels.so at 9.30am we met them and began our journey. our leader, xin, juliette, me then tony were in one group and the others were behind. we followed the road for a while, crossed a main road and then entered the tennegar desert. The huge sand dunes and vast open spacce was incredible, teuly an amzing experience. Altough at fi...

we met at the hostel at 10.30am at checked out of beijing hostel to go to zhongwei. we left the station at 12 and began our 23 hour train journey!! the hard sleeper trains consist of small compartments of 6 tiny bunks, me tony dave sarah jonny nd katie were in together and julkiet and xin our leader were in a separate one. staright wawy drama as xin told us we HAD to show our tickets and 4 of us had misplaced them (including me and tony!!) after 5 minutes tony fo...