Backdate: Xinjiang Jun 2026 Day 10
21/6/26 Sun: Got up at 7.15am. I didn't sleep well because of the rain throughout the night as it was quite noisy. Poor Fran had sore throat and woke up earlier. The sky brightened up at 8am or so. We had quick and simple breakfast and阿力木told us there was incoming flood, so we should leave asap. It sounded a bit scary, so we left at 8.30am. The good news was独库公路opened up after announcing the day before it’d be closed due to collapse from the rain. 阿力木bought honey by the roadside for RMB50... I should have bought it too haiz. Anyway, the view on独库公路was quite pretty. You basically see "all seasons", and we were quite close to the snowy mountains at some parts too. At 11+am, we took a break for 20mins and man it was very cold at 5 degrees Celcius and we were pretty much underdressed for that. I remember taking a pee and saw smoke coming up from the hole lol~ Fran bought sweet potato and shared it with us... so shiok holding and eating that in cold weather! We stopped by a co...
