southern silk road, in pictures

watermelon: a southern silk road traveller's best friend


the bleakness that can be the roadside in western china


the roadside desert in the southern silk road


hussein's camels in yarkand. we were walking by and noticed them in a courtyard, and he let us in to see them and their babies.


people, who our bus picked up in the middle of nowhere, playing cards on the bus to qiemo


crude oil coming out of the ground


kate on a mountain in huatugou, with me taking a picture from just a little higher