The weather is becoming a little cooler now so as we departed our hotel we were advised to put more clothes.
Today´s jaunt was to Xinjiang´s famous Tianchi Lake about 115 kilometers east of Urumqi city at the top of the Tianshan Mountain range.
According to the latest reliable figures released by the government, a staggering 27-percent of China´s total land area is now desert or suffering from land degradation.