Arriving in Yinchuan, I ate nearly an entire kilo of hot roast chestnuts (which are available on every corner, and very hard to resist). I inevitably felt horribly ill and while trying to walk it off we found a beautiful mosque in the middle of the city which we wandered around and waited to see if we could hear their call to prayer. Ningxia is ...

"Don't move.... he can't see you if you don't move" - Jurassic Park "My mommy said there weren't any monsters, any real ones.... but there are" - Aliens You are warned when you visit China that you will experience a massive culture shock. More so than almost anywhere else in the world, you are advised to prepare to be shocked and baffled. Not tr...

After a couple of days travelling by bus I spent the day in a modern little town in the middle of nowhere to do some laundry. Nothing special, but went out for barbeque in the evening. For lunch I ate a meat that looked like thin strips of chicken, heavily spiced and very, very chewy. Wrote down the menu entry and got it translated back in the h...