Although I don't own a digital camera at the moment, I happen to have nearly 1,000 digital pics from the trip on my computer because my travel companions wanted to cover all the angles. Unfortunately, not one of them caught what I thought was the coolest image of all (the shot of the plane against the desert backdrop at KGH).

Anyway, I'll work on getting some pictures up as soon as I finish writing about Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, and Lanzhou... and a particularly unpleasent train segment that could have been avoided with a simple schedule check.

BTW, I would argue that the town that hosts the Turpan train station (forget its name) is even more depressing than Liuyan, but my feelings might be somewhat jaded by the incredibly cold sand storm that caught me with my pants down (not literally, of course, but I was dressed in shorts and a tee-shirt when I stepped off the mini-bus).