How you survive.
It is very hard to survive in any desert, but in the Takla Makan it is even harder, there are no cactuses to hack open!! Even though people lived in the Takla for a long time, these people were used to going long times without water, and also they lived along the "silk road" and the Buddhist merchants would give them food and other things in return for prayers.
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