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絲綢之路【2002年5月】

北京－蘭州－夏河－敦煌－吐魯番－【舊】高昌國－烏魯木齊

涉流沙、穿戈璧、抗嚴寒、戰酷熱。
幻想一下征服這浩瀚的沙漠也可以罷。

騎著隻《易易發》
跟絲路駱駝大隊往沙漠進發。

沙暴大場面
看遠山沙暴形成，十五分鐘後伸手不見五指，
再五分鐘後，滿口黃沙。【犀利】

They might not even have chance to see the outside world in their lifetime.
But they are the heroes who build a great nation.
Highway builders - western China.

A section of new highway in western China

Vegetating & irrigating 15,600 square km of land of the Loess Plateau.
(Click here to see what it is all about)

醒目仔於蘭州白塔山之猛醒亭，夠醒味！

晨運戲曲組合，後面靠把口【唱】，前面靠隻手【舞】。

Anti-pollution propaganda

Performance Standard Gauge in a gas station in western China.
If they do not change the Gauge, something will go wrong soon.
(superstition - or you know the answer - it is a problem similar to Y2K)

Lama's life (in "Mini Tibet") - Their daily meals: flour, powdered "brown grains", butter, and water. Each has his own tray and bowl; eat and clean their bowls with their hands sitting on the ground with legs crossed; shelve trays afterwards awaiting next meal. The trays are their serving containers, food containers and "refrigerators". They feel proud to be lamas. (Any one who can do that for years should surely be proud of himself - masculine only - no lady lama - or are the ladies lucky ??).

Cylinders of Scriptures - if you cannot read, turn the cylinder once. This is equivalent to reading it one time. (Great Invention !!).

Lama Temple ("Mini Tibet") - place of worship, school and university.
Five years of study of scriptures in a language derived from Arabic leads to a Degree in Divinity.

Ritual figures made from butter

葡萄美酒夜光杯，
欲飲琵琶馬上催，
醉臥沙場君莫笑，
古來征戰幾人回。

此大石乃製夜光杯之石種，
口吟醉仙之詩，她亦醉了。

China's airlines do not allow knife to be on board any where of their planes. This Genghis Khan knife with a curl blade for facilitating skining horses and cutting up their meat for meals was therefore unfortunately confisticated at the airport. This photo is evidence of my possession of this great artifact for two days. (RMB40 gone).