parting (for now)
Posted By Christoph On September 19, 2012 @ 12:29 In Dario,Leisure,Xinjiang | 6 Comments
Day 427: [乌鲁木齐 (Ürümqi)] = 0km
Today was our last day in this beautiful part of the world.
We got on a plane:
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And flew over the desert and the mountains. Parts of the land looked like the ones I had walked through before:
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Then we reached 乌鲁木齐 (Ürümqi).
We came in low over the city:
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And we crossed the exact same road that I had walked down two years ago [4]:
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It had been a good summer that year.
And this year?
Maybe even better.
Soundtrack: Manowar – “Mountains”
-total: 5510,9km
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