kjp

Yup, the travelling (well really, the exploring) is cool fun. We've just had 2 1/2 days of travelling on a bus through the desert. It was kind of boring, but interesting and fun to drop into little towns on the way, and see the scenary change. It's kind of weird seeing sandy sand dunes with mountains in the background that have snow and glaciers on them.

The bus travel has meant I've been able to catch up on some sleep. The previous two nights were camping in a Yurt in the alpine forest on the north side of the desert (we're now on the south west side). I slept pretty poorly on both nights. The first night I ws too cold, second night I was too hot (and maybe had drunk too much earlier that night.... anyhow).

Today and tomorrow we're in Hotan - lots of Jade sellers on the street. It's a fairly strongly muslim area - 80% of women have some sort of head scarf - 5% you can't see anything but there eyes. Having said that, all of the head scarfs I've seen are trendy and fit into the clothing of the person wearing it (ie: there's a fair bit of fashion involved).

Dodgy keyboards seem to be a common factor in internet cafes over here.