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Down by the Beijing, where the watermelons grow...
... sort of excursion you can do on your own. While other sections of the wall can be reached by train or bus, Jiankou is further east and rural enough to make transportation by car a must. Because Jiankou is not restored, it is not set up to receive tourists on the same scale as other sections...this means that you are essentially accessing it via a wooded path off to one end of a small village.
We stopped on the way to get lunch stuff (some nuts, ...
The Great Wall of China Day
Yesterday was The Great Wall Day! We had booked the trip to Jinshanling, in Luanping County, one of the less popular spots for climbing the wall, with our hostel and a man and a van came to pick us up at 6am.
As soon as we got in the mini van he gave us a Ham Mcmuffin for breakfast (trip macdonalds count = 4) so we knew straight away it was going to be a good day. We picked up some other people and were on our way. Three hours of sleeping with my mouth open on the bus later and we ...
CHENGDE: CHINESE VILLAGE OF 500,000
... their own cuisine, all while speaking fluent patois. Why don’t they do that here? Go figure. There’s a cause-and-effect relationship here, but I’m not sure where.
Not surprisingly, therefore, I’m one of the few foreigners in town here, and people tend to look at me as if I’d just dropped in from Mars. That may be because I’m wearing a baseball cap that says “Mars” (the candy bar, not the planet) on ...
Bashang Plateau (Day 2)
... yu2le4chang3).
娱乐场 is a bit tricky to translate. It technically translates to "casino," but we were definitely not going to the casino. So, in this case, it means more like an "amusement park." So,
坝上草原娱 ;乐场 would be "Bashang Plateau Amusement Park." When we got there, a lot of were joking that it was basically the poor man's Six Flags.
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Bashang Plateau (Day 1)
... was my turn to ride one, one of the students taught me all the controls, which were pretty simple. You basically have to squeeze one handle to speed up, squeeze a different handle to slow down and kick down on a bar to switch gears. I loved going fast on these things, but I soon learned that you have to slow down a lot when turning corners. I was rounding a corner pretty fast and I felt the ...