The Good Luck Talisman

Shangtou was the nearest point to China that was definitely Mongolia. It was an archaeological site rather than a, you know, there were very few standing ruins. I've still got on my desk in Delhi as a sort of good luck talisman. Syria would be very difficult to go through at the moment. And while you could definitely go through Western China, if you were a foreigner,. you would be going through a very different place to the very happy and beautiful and extraordinary citizen we went through in the late days.