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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
... car engine running for 30 minutes or more to get as much done as I have, bu pretty antisocial behaviour really in such a lovely spot. will fill in the missing photo captions etc when I can.As I sit typing this the blasted cuckoo is back with us yet again - we hear him non stop every morning and evening, most definitely folowing us around.....
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Hole with a wall in it
We arrived in Jiayuguan yesterday after yet another wonderful Chinese domestic flight - 1 hr delayed, smushed in with the unwashed masses - being served cold greasy noodles.
We finally arrived in Jiayuguan in the late afternoon, and the place is a complete dump.It is sprawling, polluted and very dusty as it is in the middle of the desert. Within a few minutes of arriving here - even though the temperature is a ...
Xinjiang, in China??
... areas including the fort, the wall, museum and and another part of the wall. The fort was so fake it was funny. We got a big kick out of the prohibition sign. The commander told the engineer who designed the wall that if he was off by one brick in his calculation of the number of bricks to be used he would be killed. Upon completion of the wall there was one brick left, which the clever engineer explained was to balance the arch, and placed it on the ...
Silk Road, Day 4: 嘉峪关
... of the person’s home. Inside each room are paintings on individual bricks that described aspects of the person’s life when he was living, such as farming, hunting, food, entertainment, etc. Our guide said that when the tomb was built, no cement was used to build the tomb. It’s amazing how back then they didn’t use cement, but their structures were so strong and didn’t cave ...