This was another hot day but morning tea was off the motorway near a lake. The highlight of our day was visiting the Changu Winery.   From a distance as we approaching, one would’ve thought we were visiting Disneyland…

A long hot drive but with spectacular desert scenery. We had morning tea at a service centre and then pushed on to ancient graves for lunch. Shaded areas and a view of the flaming mountains. A walk through the graves…

Still the most amazing camel ride from yesterday! This was a driving day of over 400kms. Very lunar landscape …flat desert like to start with and then rounded hills…almost gravel-like. One wild camel was spotted…alas not by me first as…

This morning was a relaxing one. A late breakfast which was really brunch….followed by some printing of documents and a visit to China post to courier them …with the hotel’s car! A great help! At 1.20 we assembled to drive…