Lazy day in Dunhuang

Our first day off for a while. Feels like we haven't had a day like this for weeks. No truck, no driving, no shopping, no plans, no fixed time for breakfast, just stay in bed all morning and then in the afternoon found place where they served coffee. And then back to the room to do some more nothing.

The Chinese food did get Malene again so the score is Chinese food: 2 and Malene: 0.   

Malene went to the sand dunes with Nico in the afternoon and got some good photos of the sun setting and the full moon rising. It was good fun to be out there with the young Chinese tourists. They were indeed having a good time and laughing about climbing the sand dunes and taking lots of selfies.

Mikkel went with our guide and some of the others from the group to see the local acrobatic show. Very impressing and very relaxing at the same time. 1½ hours of people jumping, bending and doing out of this world things.

Nothing like a lazy day once in a while. Tomorrow is back to truck life and 2 days of wild camping.

Mogao Caves and another go at a KTV bar

Dunhuang is one of the historically most important trading and oasis towns. Today most people go to see the Mogao Caves with Buddha stautes. And so did we.

Parked the truck and then we went to see a film about the silk road in a huge theatre with lots of Chines tourists. We did hear the film in English and it was quite interesting. Then it was time to move to another room to see a 360 film about the caves. Also interesting but we were more eager to go and see them on our own.

There are several hundred caves but only a few are open at once. They're are restoring the other ones. We were shown 8 caves.There were a lot of tourists so we had to wait every time we had to go into a cave and sometimes it was a bit difficult to get the feeling of the cave and see everything properly but it was still interesting and we had a good English speaking guide. In one of the caves we saw a 34 meter high Buddha.

After a relaxing afternoon and some food at the night market 12 of us went to a KTV bar again. More karaoke. Why don't we sing karaoke more often at home?! We had our private room again and had lots of fun and sang for 3-4 hours and suddenly it was 1.30 in the morning. How often do you sing karaoke on a Monday night until 1.30? Not often but sometimes everything is possible. Going home the night market was  just closing. Maybe not a city which never sleeps but they don't go to bed early. Some of the others wanted to go to a club but we decided to head home to get some sleep.

Big cinema

Mogao Caves with lots of tourists

Nico, Cameron and Yan posing

Dry place

Never miss a photo opportunity

Another great sign

Sea food far from the ocean

Night market

Bob and Yan at the night market

Yes, they serve donkey here. Didn't try it

Camels stopping for red light and passing in the street

David

Yan, Nico, Cameron, Mikkel, Bob and Neill

Yan and Mikkel

Malene, Yan, Cameron and Mikkel

Mikkel and Neill

Too small ice buckets here

Yan and Mikkel in a duet

Cameron and Bob

Crazy driver Bob