10-06-2008
And we took off to Kashgar.Here we parked in a hotel s yard and was received by the personal from a company who should help us with the documents.Sisi found a mechanic to help with the battery problem, who found out that the problem once again was the starter motor, and resolved it. Next problem the documents the office was long outside the city and coming there was no electricity, and we had to wait a couple of days.The company helped and the biggest surprise was that my medical examination on a local hospital was not a proved my hart worked too slow, but yhis they resolved putting an other person in my place.We took off with two documents on the windshield and and a new driver license in Chinese.
Jason had made route longer just to show us a sand desert, and nearly through it I was told to turn round and made a wrong turning and got stuck in the sand and needed help from a tractor to get out.
The road is in a very good driving condition pass the town Turpan and a 70 km before we should run in to a hurricane, first it took the luggage carrier and when I turned in at a place to find shelter together with other trucks the whole front windshield blow out.
I managed to find shelter in the back of a small truck, where we hoped that he would stop as long as the hurricane would go on. But one after one the trucks took off.And Sisi resolved to call help on here Mobil and the police really came and resolved to get help from a truck to give shelter to a small village , The result was not good at all the back window blow out as soon as we started and together with other items to come to this village was a hell on earth and coming there there was no shelter to get either.
The wind blew stronger and stronger, we had to cover us the best we could and hope for the day light, and only then I could find a better shelder.All the way back to Brazil I had prepared a plastic windshield but not to mount in a hurricane, but Sisi managed to put in on, and became the day s heroine. And late in the afternoon we took of for Turpan to lick ours wounds
Turpan showed to be the hottest city in China an other hell on our way. But Sisi managed to find a workshop to make us two windshields of plastic glass. It took two days and they made the best they could with the material they had.
Result we or most Dora want to get out of China as fast as possible .But China is a very big country, there is along long way.
The road is very good and we make 300 to 400 km per day overnight in gasoline station, were I am righting this now.
Next city should be Xian
Three first photos Karshigar .
Two next photos end of the Great Wall.

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