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Helen's Silk Road
A long drive - started about 7am and arrived about 5pm. The drive was very pretty with about 40 tunnels (longest about 13k) and I have no idea how many bridges. The valleys are about 500m wide, very lush. The bridges and freeways are built above the valley floor. It is harvest time. Stopped for lunch and the locals are becoming more Moslem and the beer shops harder to find! Arrive at Lanzhou the first major Silk Road city after Xian. It is huge. Saving grace is our first sight of the Yellow river and it's fantastic night market - which was closed for cleaning! Literally ate on the street, in the only shop which sold beer.
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