The Great Wall’ker

We are in our tents now after about 20 km walking. It has been really hot today, so I’m drinking water now. Even took a salt tablet as I have been sweating a lot because of the cold I was blessed with yesterday.

There is a lot of agriculture here, and there have been people walking along almost the whole route today. When we had had enough for the day, we got off the main main road and looked around for a place to pitch our tents. Then we looked some more, and even more! All the land is used as farming land! In the end Jon found a small cluster of trees with some space between, and that is where we are now.

I have decided to try and shave some more weight off the rucksack. More about that when we get to Zhangye.

Yippeeee!!! Just felt the first cool breeze go through the tent, so hopefully it will be OK to sleep. Lying in my (very) lightweight underpants on top of the sleeping bag now.

Good night.

This is a field test and in fact right now we are beside a field relaxing. It is hot and we will rest for an hour before moving on. This morning we were about to activate the picture gallery, but were told we had to vacate the room, so the picture gallery will be activated once we get to Zhangye.

The map is up to date again and from now on we will update the web site each evening providing it doesn’t cost too much, and that there isn’t too much sand or dust in the air as I don’t want to open the guts of this HTC S740 that I am enjoying using.

We will be walking along a small road to the north of the Black River the next few days. The Great Wall has probably disappeared because of agriculture, but in a couple of days we will start seeing plenty of beacon towers. We have already passed one today.