Next stop(s)

Ok, we're booked on our sleeper train to Lanzhou tonight. We first zigged over here to Shaanxi, but now our trail is zagging us back up to the Northwest but (hopefully) not through the more treacherous terrrain as that found in Northern Sichuan and Qinghai provinces.

We're going through Gansu province and hopefully following the silk road into Xinjiang as far West as we can go without going into India! Didn't know it but the end of the silk road is actually here in Xian. We found it this morning. Check out Jenni's blog.

Lanzhou has the dubious honour of being the WORLDS most polluted city. I can't wait to see what that smells like and take a picture! Should try to bottle the stuff!

Our visa's run out mid-June so we've had to pick up our pace a little to get to either Urumqi or Kashgar to renew. The race is on...check back to see if we make it! :)