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Datong

Datong :

Village in the remote Kunlun mountains

Group of Tajiks riding a tractor

Road running under unstable sand cliffs in China

Tajik adobe huts in the Kunlun mountains

Boy on a donkey

Tajik mother and son

Lake on route from Karakoram Highway to Datong

Turquoise lake on road to Datong

Lake in Xinjiang

Milky blue river in western China

River in a Kunlun mountain valley

Dam construction in Xinjiang, western China

Sunlight entering a valley on the road to Datong

Camels in western China

Men attempting to divert a river in western China

Metal workers preparing for dam construction in China

Group of Tajik men riding a tractor

Tajik mausoleum with a view of the Kunlun mountains

Looking up Datong valley

Tajik girls crossing a bridge

Colorful door on a Tajik structure

Red flower in Datong

Black-and-white spider in western China

Girl walking with her brother down the main street in Datong village

Kids in Datong village

Tajik father and daughter

Loaded donkey in Datong village

Child standing in a doorway behind a motorcycle

Tajik women bringing a cow in for the evening

Tajik boy

Woman riding a donkey

Tajik boys playing in a sunflower field

Kids in Datong

Donkey carrying a load of hay

Blue-green doorway in an adobe home

Lake in western China

Chinese Reservoir

Orange-jacketed man on a donkey

Hills in the Kunlun mountain range

Beam of sunlight cutting through a rocky valley in Xinjiang

Rays of sun passing through dusty air in western China

Coal truck in western China

Mountains on the road to Datong

Tajik men chatting on a road

Tajik family walking along a dusty road

Colorful mausoleum

Unknown lizard in western China

Tajik kids crossing a river by bridge

Bridge on the way to Datong

Tajik man with gold teeth

Woman leading a donkey across a road near Datong

Black-and-white spider in western China

Home in Datong

Kids playing in the dust of a dirt road

Mother, son, and hay-laden donkey

Tajik women bringing a cow in from the field

Tajik women coming in from the field

Noisy donkey

Tajik boy in an orange jacket standing in front of his stone home

Tajik boys tending to a patch of sunflowers while watching a yak

Tajik boy tending to a patch of sunflowers

Donkey carrying a load of hay in a Tajik village in China

Tajik village

Lake along on to Datong region

Lake along road to Datong

Lake on the road to Datong

Reservoir in western China

River in the Kunlun mountains

Turquoise river in the Kunlun mountains

Turquoise river along the road to Datong

Road to Datong

Valley along road to Datong

Mountain near the Tajikistan border

Dusty road towards Datong

Kunlun mountain valley river

Marsh valley in western China

Two Tajiks standing on an open plain in the Kunlun mountains

Green meadows in the Kunlun mountains

Opaque turquoise waters in a canyon in western China

Rocky road towards Datong

Imposing cliffs along a river in the Kunlun mountains

Valley in the Kunlun mountains

Walled valley on the road to Daton

Truck barrelling down on us in western China

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