Sep 16, 2005 - Aksu

We have arrived in Aksu. I do not think that you will find it on your atlas, but it is 400km East of Kashgar along a good tarmac road - yippee! Back up to 16 miles to the gallon. Charlotte's navigation into town was superb - despite all the road signs being in Chinese characters. It is easy once you get the hang of it. Aksu's first character is a kind of BoJ and the second a dancing man. We disagreed over the third one: C reckons it was 2 people dancing, but I insist that it was someone with ski-poles. Anyway, the road to Aksu was clearly...