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End of the Greeat Wall
... as the other part of the wall that I saw near Beijing 4 years ago, but it is good to kind of finish the wall and say I saw the start and the end of it because this is apparently where the wall ends. You hike up about 20 minutes and past a few minarets and it just ends in the middle of the mountains. It seemed to me like the other end of the great wall had more mountains than this end and this end was more desert. ...
Walking bits of the Great Wall of China
Photos uploaded but not much battery power left on the camper tonight as ran low this morning before we left for out day's trip - but camper van only went about 35km so didn't charge the leisure battery that powers the electrical stuff in the camper van itself up (a different battery to the one that powers the engine you'll be glad to know). Have ...
Hole with a wall in it
... Tribal areas through which one would have to cross while heading east. Built in a strategically significant location in a wide valley between two mountain ranges, Jiayuguan Fort (called 'The Westernmost Gate Under Heaven') marked the point at which silk road travelers coming from the west were (mostly) out of danger from raiders and robbers. It is easy to imagine the relief felt by travelers coming from the west, that they ...
Xinjiang, in China??
... and left us to find dinner. We had noodles, the northwestern staple and after some asking and price checking, checked into a shoddy hotel where the lady didn't know how to register our passports so she just gave up and returned them to us saying she just wouldn't register us but we could stay anyways. We were able to leave our bags at the hotel while we went and bought tickets to Urumqi and then took a taxi to the Jiayuguan Fort. It was 120 Kuai (18 USD) for ...
Silk Road, Day 4: 嘉峪关
It was really cold this morning (no one told me that china would be cold in the summer!). We went to the Weijin Tombs and the Overhanging Great Wall. The Weijin Tomb was super cool. Supposedly, there are many tombs hidden underground, but only one tomb is open to the public to see. The tomb was pretty deep underground, so it was freezing inside! There were three chambers to the tomb and each room symbolized ...
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