Friday 16th August Border Crossing day Kryistan / China, we stopped in a hotel / shack about 50m from the first Kryistan check point, Though the place was dirty and a bit of a tip, we were just as dirty, so it all worked out.. As a bonus they had decent WIFI and the young guy spoke a bit of English. We had breakfast at the shack, fried eggs and fritters, then packed are bags onto the bikes, ready for the border to open at 08:00. Made are way to the first checkpoint, should are passport and visa to the guard, who instructed us to go to the building over the the road for the formal checks, sailed through them, on the bikes for a 2 mile ride to the first Chinese checkpoint. Same again all passports and visas checked again, then all the bags off the bikes and scanned, then physically searched, everything out of the panniers and saddle bags. All very polite and civil, not interested in the phones or laptops. They then explained that we would need to go through another checkpoint about 50 miles away, with no cycling in between we had heard about this, so we were not surprised, so all the bikes, luggage and us into the minibus for the hours drive to the checkpoint,basically in the middle of nowhere. Once again passports , visas checked and bags scanned, then back in the minibus for another 20 mins too another checkpoint. We arrived at this checkpoint about 13:45, the driver explained that they would be closed for lunch and reopen at 14:30, not to bad we thought. Well 14:30 came and went, we ended up waiting until 16:30, before they finally opened the gates and let us in, for yet more passport, visa and baggage checks, as well as filling out a tourist form. All this took at least another 2 hours, before we were finally out of the search area. With the clocks moving forward 2 hours and the time it had taken to get through all the checks, we decided to get a taxi to Kashgar, we rode out of the search area, then came to a carpark, I asked the first guy i saw, how much for a ride to Kashgar he said 400 yen about £45, so we loaded the bikes and baggage into his pick up truck and set off for Kashgar, about an hours drive away or so we thought. After two extended police checks we finally made it to the outskirts of Kashgar, were the driver dropped us off, bit of hassle paying him as we tried to tell him we needed an ATM, ended up paying him in $US, after he had got someone to verify the exchange rate. Well the plan was to ride into the bustling city of Kashgar and find a hotel, well this certainly did not go to plan, the hotels were either fully booked or could not let foreign nationals stay,it was getting very late about 10:30, we even had a local couple doing there best for us, to no avail, they finally suggested a place we could camp for the night again! As we had not eat properly, since breakfast, we decided to eat first then locate the campsite, the local couple had suggested. With the fully loaded bikes, we had to find a place to eat where we could look after the bikes, we soon located a suitable place and order a massive Chinese meal. It was gone midnight before we finished are meal, made are way to the so called site, which was under construction or something, we ended up sleeping on benches and the floor, after 4 nights on the road, we were all filthy dirty and tired, we just need some proper rest.