Huayi Hotel Baiyin
No.488 Beijing Road, Baiyin District Baiyin, Gansu, China
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Ab in die Wüste
... ohne Pause (!) und die Gegend laut seiner Aussage zu gefährlich zum Anhalten und schlafen...um 6 Uhr morgens kamen wir also an und haben dann nach einem kurzen Frühstück erstmal den Rest des Tages fast verschlafen. Nachmittags ging's dann zum Grab von Dschinghis Khan und seinen Reiterhorden und abends stand mongolisches, schweineteures BBQ auf dem Programm. Als unsere Runde auf Franziska, Valentina, Ralph und mich geschrumpft war rief das irgendwie die Hotelangestellten ...
An adventure comes sadly to end
Tsetang Thursday Aug 19th. Today is the last full day in Tsetang and tomorrow we say a reluctant good bye to our excellent guide Dicky and driver Mr.Dimples (Mr.Yo). We have spent eight very rewarding days but on this penultimate day we are going to pay a visit to the Syme Monastry. This requires about a 40km drive first crossing the Yarlung river then about 10 km of bitumen road and 30km of sometimes extremely rough road but ...
More temples
... top we returned to Tsetang for for a couple of hours rest then lunch at a local restaurant where their fried rice was the best ever.
The second last visit of the day was visit to Yumbu Temple built on the top of a rather high hill as there were too many steps for Gwen and I decided to enlist the help of a couple of ponies both up and down for the princely sum of Aus $16 or 80 yuan Chinese. We quite enjoyed the ride ...
One last village stay
We traveled to Huining county, in Gansu province and continued our interviews with local villagers. It was a great location to collect data, as it was highly arid, as compared to the villages we'd been in the previous weeks. There are numerous farmers who rely solely on rainwater collection for their water (for both domestic and agricultural uses!).
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The Great Southern Corn Ride Part 2
... entry, the greenness really doesn't go that far back but for me, it has to be enough. So once again I found myself peddling past happy smiling farmers whose lives are spent in their fields and are more than happy to offer a huge smile and wave followed by a loud HELLOW!
On my last Corn Ride I actually had no idea where I was going and how far ...


