Kashgar, China, 1st internet since completing Tajikistan and Pamir Highway, Kyrgyzstan and entering China. We cycled 7kms through no man's land to Chinese customs, big sandy hills with the occasional marble type ripple. Nice grand buildings too, and all signs, statues and everything now Chinese, like suddenly arriving in your local 'China Town', except we are in the extreme west of a vast country yet to cycle. Incidentally we're planning on taking the Northern Silk route across the huge Taklamakan Desert, the other route to the south having less facilities and frequent sand storms blocking the road. Kashgar is a major junction, an oasis of civilisation, and from here you can cross into Pakistan, or head off to Tibet, Nepal and India. More...