My first in my life.

Cute or what?

I guess in Texas we called them Dirt Devils..

… the vehicles were raising quite some dust in the wind…

Apparently, this is the goat from whose hair cashmere is made…

We just entered Mongolia. Check out the desert with the long sand dunes and the road going thru..

We crossed over from Kazhakastan to China. And out of nowhere came this humongous city. Closely noticing it, we saw some interesting features. The whole city looked like lego blocks. There was no sign of any old structure that you would expect in this part of the world. Everything was very symmetrical, in right angles and the houses looked like they were built out of cookie cutters. But it was a humongous city.

From Google Maps, it looks like the place is called Yining in Chinese and Gulja in Kazhak.

Check it out – specially see it in a satellite map. You will see that in the middle of mountains and deserts, suddenly there is a huge city…