Going towards Astana from Balkhash, we had a wake up call at 5am and briefing at 6.45am, as it will be another long ride to complete. It is 520km in distance. The morning was cold at 11degree celsius. As we hitthe road, we noticed that the temperature’s vary from 10degree -15degree celsius all the way to Astana.

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It’s quite a long ride for us all today as we traveled 620km from Almaty to Balkhash. The last we rode more than 500km was back in Thailand. Getting out of Almaty was quite a hassle as there are a number of junctions and traffic lights. To make things worst, it was congested with locals heading to work.

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Every time when it’s border-crossing day, the day started a way bit earlier for us all in order not to be greeted by a long queue and ended up stuck in no man’s land. That’s the worst can happen. Stuck in between of two countries and no where to go.

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Today marked our last day in China before moving forward to the next country, Kazakhstan in the quest to enlightenment in the Holy Land, Mecca.

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I’d say to date this is the most memorable and stunningly beautiful route we’re passing through in China throughout our journey. Reason being was, we had the opportunity to witness the grand canyon, snow-capped mountains and grasslandas we make our way to Nalati traveling 333km in total distance today.

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We’ve entered Xinjiang Province yesterday once we entered Ruoqiang. Yesterday was an exceptional day for us all, having the opportunity to ride both in hot and cold weather in one day. We’ve played in the snow high in the mountains and challenge ourselves riding through the sands in the desert. Only in China.

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The experience riding in China is exceptional. Only here in China, you’d get to experience hard cold, snowstorm, fierce crosswinds and minor sand storm all in a day. Temperature from -1degree shot up to 23degree celsius.  We traversed from 3400meter – 1000meter above sea level just like that!

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It was a cold morning, but then that’s the way it is as we’ve been experiencing extreme cold weather for almost a week. From Golmud, which is situated at 3000meter above sea level, we headed to Huatogou. Golmud is situated in Gobi Desert and it’s the main town for transit route to Lhasa, Tibet or Xinjiang Province. There were many trucks and lorries along the road.

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Our ride from Dulan to the next destination, Golmud took us traversing the Chinese archipelago another 350km in distance. Since the route consists of long straights, we arrived in Golmud earlier than expected at 2.00pm.

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We left the hotel at 8am and surely enough, being a working day we had to go through quite a congestion. It took us almost 45 minutes to go through the congestion and a number of traffic lights before managing to exit the town to continue our journey to Dulan.

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We departed from the hotel by bus to a parking space at 9am for the Bank Muamalat’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) program. Alhamdulillah, with the help of Qinghai Muslim Foundation, we’ll be traveling to the CSR venue via 4-wheel-based vehicles instead of our metal horses. It’s been raining since early morning and with 10degree celsius in temperature, it’s freezing.

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It was a morning ride and it was quite a smooth ride despite the fact that we had to brave 10degree celsius temperature. With all the riding gears, morning breeze got us freezing to the bone. Alhamdulillah, we still managed to arrive in Xining around 4pm, traversing through 4 counties, 345km in total distance.

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It was chilling to the bone for us all as it’s between 5 – 10degree celsius. To make it worst, we’re traveling at 3500 – 3000meter above sea level. We left at 8am braving the cold weather and prior to that, some came down without proper attire despite the fact they’ve been briefed earlier.

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We left Dan Ba at 8.00am, making our way to Hong Yuan. It was another 350km completed in the ‘DRB HICOM: Kembara Bumi Suci sponsored by Bank Muamalat’. The first time we rode this particular route was during the debut of Kembara Bumi Suci back in 2010.

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