Day 36(2)

The Chinese returned from their dinner break after 2 hours and we slowly progressed through the process, attracting a lot of interest as we were the only non commercial vehicles crossing.

China are very concerned about the health of people entering their country and took all our temperatures to ensure non of us had any flu like symptoms.  Rachael was hotter than the prescribed temperature and was given a face mask to wear, and taken away to a quarantine room. Two blokes in full chemical protection suits went into the room to check her over and did give her the all clear.  But it did keep the rest of us amused.

The Kazachstan officials had still managed to cause us problems even after we had left their country as they should have provided us with a 3 page A4 document as we left to allow China to complete the registration of our vehicles.  In the end, this meant we had to stay at the border town overnight as we didn't complete all the formalities before things stopped at 19:00.

We have however had our first short drive in China and met Tracey, our guide for the next 18 days.

Our hotel tonight cost 68yuan, which is about £6.30 and the room is fine with en-suite shower/toilet.  The 7 of us went out to eat and had soup, 6 dishes plus rice, 5 beers and a coke and the total was 89yuan - about £8.  I think I quite like China.

The one problem in this region is that there are no international calls and no e:mail service from my phone so you are probably reading this several days late.

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