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Museum… Outdoors…

Museum… Outdoors…

This was a kind of museum that I’d never seen before. Called Xian HanYanLing Museum

This was perched over the site where everything was found. Brilliant, really if you think about it. How better to a/ not disturb things and b/ be true about how the things were found in the ground. Really a neat way to have a museum. Of course they had things in cases too, but it was fun.

Dunhuang~ In the Desert

Dunhuang~ In the Desert

Two days riding through the desert, to get to Mogao Caves~ My friend Sara and I traveled far west, into the Gobi Desert for a visit to ancient stone carvings that stretched perhaps a few miles and at times a few hundred feet into the air. Carved from the 4th century on for about a thousand years, this set of carvings is one of the largest in the world, even from before people were trying to do such things on purpose. It was truly amazing. . . and there was sledding. so… yea, good times were had.