以my favorite 为题的英语作文

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My favourite place in the world

They've travelled all over the globe but if they could return to just one special place which would it be? Carl Wilkinson asked 15 of the world's top travel writers to choose their all-time favourite destination

What appeals to me about revisiting Khotan is that it's like jumping back in time, like going back to the still heart sitting at the centre of Asia. It's a little-known oasis city in the middle of north-west China with the Taklimakan Desert to its north. The Taklimakan is the deadliest desert on earth - its name means 'once you go in you never come out'.

You have to be rather determined to get to Khotan. There's no railway. You have to take a bus from Kashgar, which is several hundred miles to the north-west. It's been closed to foreigners until fairly recently and I first went a couple of years ago. It has a great history. It was on the 2,000-year-old southern Silk