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	<description>a photographic walk from Beijing to Bad Nenndorf</description>
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		<title>&#8220;achromaticity limpidity beef noodle additive&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 358: 呼图壁 (Hutubi) = 0km I woke up feeling terrible. Maybe the cold had finally caught up with me? So here I am talking about food. There&#8217;s a typical dish in the Northwest of China, it&#8217;s called 兰州拉面 (lanzhou lamian &#8211; Lanzhou noodles), or just 牛肉面 (niuroumian &#8211; beef noodles): I have mentioned that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>he is I and I am him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 357: 榆树沟 (Yushugou) &#8211; 呼图壁 (Hutubi) = 26,8km 2010-09-03.kmz on larger map I got up in the early morning hours and started walking. It felt nice, because the air was fresh and there were not many cars around on the country road: I passed some parts that looked like a strange planet: And some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>black kites &amp; silly geese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 356: 昌吉 (Changji) &#8211; 榆树沟 (Yushugou) = 16,6km 2010-09-02.kmz on larger map I eventually dragged my sorry ass out from the castle and started walking again. One thing about 昌吉 (Changji) that really surprised me was its cleanliness &#8211; very unlike some of the other cities I&#8217;ve come through on my way from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fearless vampire killers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 355: 昌吉 (Changji) = 0km What was there to do? Stay in my castle of foot pain all day? I tried this option, but eventually I had to go outside and watch some dudes play a game of 象棋 (xiangqi &#8211; Chinese chess) for a while: Gotta love the way they are smashing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ouch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 354: 昌吉 (Changji) = 0km I woke up and said hello to a fine day: I limped outside and bought some water, some dried fruit&#8230; &#8230;and a massive hami melon: I laid out the tools to treat my feet: And then&#8230; I made the cuts: Guess I&#8217;ll have to stay here a bit longer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>earthworm and anaconda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[day 353: 乌鲁木齐 (Ürümqi) &#8211; 昌吉 (Changji) = 34,3km 2010-08-30.kmz on larger map So&#8230; I guess some of you already knew what was going to happen, with the Caboose and all&#8230; I was going to take a few days off this summer to pick up where I left off and add a tiny bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the beloved one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see if you remember this place: Not quite? Well, how about now: That&#8217;s right. &#8220;Hey, you&#8217;re the German guy with the long hair and the beard &#8211; the walking dude!&#8221; they said when I came in, smiling like a Cheshire cat. Then they gave me another haircut. &#8230; Well this was nice and very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;is it safe to be here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people might be wondering if it&#8217;s safe to be here in 乌鲁木齐 (Ürümqi) after the deadly riots a year ago. Well, I think it&#8217;s okay. There is some military patrolling the streets: But apart from that, everything seems nice and normal. I hope it stays this way. Soundtrack: Wyclef Jean &#8211; &#8220;Peace God&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Yahximusiz!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am on a 30-day tourist visa now, but I might need a few extra days on top of that later. So I figured I&#8217;d try to get an extension for my visa today: They told me to come back another day&#8230; &#8230; So I went and had some 烤包子 (kaobaozi &#8211; baked lamb meat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prelude, Interlude, or Leisure?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just how am I going to tag this post? First things first though: I took a cab to the airport this morning, because I was going to fly out to 乌鲁木齐 (Ürümqi): Little did I know that my flight was going to land in 太原 (Taiyuan), a place very close to my original route through [...]]]></description>
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