We did not have to travel far to the water, since a perfectly sweet little creek ran along the last nine kilometres of the rutted dirt road I had travelled that morning.

• 找水源并不需走很远，因为在我早上来时的路上，沿着那布满车辙、尘土飞扬的最后九公里，就有一条清澈优美的小溪潺潺流过。