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Sand Buried Ruin of Khotan 11 - Rafik above Ataabad - A 'rafik' was a narrow corniche path built out of the sheer side of a mountain wall above an impassable stream or gorge - made of brush wood jammed into cracks in the rocks. Not recommended for ponies or even sometimes for donkeys.

 
     

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