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The Good Photos

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This is the Xinjiang - Qinghai border near the western end of the Qilian mountains. It's just about as good as a road can ever look.
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This moment captures so many elements of the trip: a mystery slow puncture; changing from five layers to one; charging phones; eight-tone tans; the milestone as a leaning post; wind; Cynthia; being filthy the whole time; responsible litter management; and that f***ing bandanna.
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Gansu wasn't my favourite province, but the small villages between Zhangye and Jiayuguan were something else. If the 10% of the UK who can afford property were going to do-up a farmhouse in China, they'd do it here.
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The best rest day was a trip to Danxia. Lived up to expectations.
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Sunset on the Gansu-Qinghai border, I didn't know where I was going but you can't complain at that.
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Carlos Vanderrama and High Speed Rail: Oh modern China is so full of contradictions darling.
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Modern technology, making things look better than an exhausted human could ever manage.
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Some attractive road works.
Camping: occasionally rubbish but often beautiful and brilliant.
The food; with the exception of pot noodles, always brilliant.

The Bad Photos

It's the way he would coordinate the bandanna and outfit that would really get me.
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The smell of rotting animal carcasses by the roadside; this particular bridge was the worst as it followed the night we camped in a rubbish tip.
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The pannier snapping on a day where I'd already had five punctures.
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Accepting the death of the pigeon.
Hebei's air
Foamy foot day in Wuhai
Looking like this at the end of every day for the first two weeks.
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Getting locked in the bathroom.
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No explanation necessary.
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The big bonk.
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Being evicted from my hotel at 23.05
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