The Accultured Robot presents:
Gansu Province - China, May 2003
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Gansu Mountain Village There's a mountain range between Lanzhou and Wuwei. We woke up in the morning as the train sped past this village. |
Conductor He let me take this picture after he grabbed the camera out of my hands in order to get a closer look. You can see the hard sleeper bunks in the background. |
SARS Police Policeman in black, railway worker in jumpsuit, and SARS worker in white. |
Hexi Corridor The fertile valley between Wuwei and Jaiyuguan. Mountains in distance. |
Liuyuan Train Station The train stops in Liuyuan where we catch a bus for Dunhuang. I was reprimanded for taking this picture. Something about railway stations being sensitive information. |
Buskers These girls found us during lunch at a noodle shop and charged us 2 yuan for a song they sang along with their untuned guitars. |
Dunhuang Greenhouses May signalled the start of grape growing in Dunhuang. The white buildings are the ends of long greenhouses with one adobe wall and poles to support plastic sheeting. |
Dunhuang Front Door Each family house has similar doors opening to a courtyard. Adobe walls are common. So are poplars. |
Dunhuang Dunes 1 Marching duneward. |
Dunhuang Dunes 2 From a ridge the sand stretches into the distance. |
Mogao Caves A complex of 400 buddhist caves, with lots of art and a few scarily-large buddhas. These survive from Dunhuang's days as a stop on the silk road. |
Lin Xia Muslim Women The Hui people are chinese muslims. |