Ruoqiang

Have arrived here on 2 May at 7.00pm after 13 hours. Got lost a couple
of times despite having maps and GPS.

Travelled 800 or so kilometers all through desert country of varying
sorts. We are now off the Tibetan Platuea at Bout 900m asl.

The road was generally good but the landscape was sometimes like being
on the moon. Almost no vegetation the whole way, which is why the
scene below is such a relief - being a street scene in the above town.

Tomorrow we hope to reach Urumqi, presumably through similar countryside.