Rick Gunn/Nevada Appeal A shopkeeper stands in the dim light of his shop in the Chinese village of Xiahe. Xiahe was the end-point of a 250-mile solo bicycle tour from the central Chinese city of Lanzhou along parts of the old Silk Road in the Gansu Province.

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Notes from a bicycle tour across China's Gansu Province

• By ncs-import
• October 14, 2004