We are back in Wuwei after a 31 km walk. I got a separate room so that I can chat with friends etc without disturbing Jon. I even got a room on the quiet side of the hotel. On the other side you can hear the constant beeping of the […]
Friday: I left the campsite at 9.30 a.m. and continued walking the Great Wall. Soon the gravel I mentioned yesterday was replaced by sand, and things started looking like what most of us conceive as being a desert, the Sahara sand, or in this case the sand from the Tengger […]
Today has been one of those days where things just fell nicely in place. Right now I am in the desert just north of an agricultural area. Jon has decided to stay in Wuwei for a few days and we will meet up on the eastern side of the ‘hook’ […]
The last two weeks have been good. We have both taken advantage of the new and larger shoes we received in Zhangye. Apart from the last two days, I have hardly had any blisters at all.In the last status report, I wrote about ‘critical mass’ being a […]
It rained very heavily several times during the night. When we woke up, the ‘earth’ had turned to mud in many places and since The Wall in this area goes in agriculturally developed places, we decided to skip walking today. We only have ordinary running shoes and didn’t want to […]
Today’s goal was Xi Gou which means the Western Hook. As you can see on the map, today’s end point is at the western point of a ‘hook’ of the Great Wall. The drinking game went on till about 1.30 a.m. this morning. The shouting got louder and louder towards […]
We are both lying on the bed (Kang in Chinese) of a shop owner now. He kindly invited us to spend the night here. It’s quite late and the light was switched off by our host a while ago. In the room next to us they are having fun and […]
After an early noodles breakfast we got a taxi to where I left The Wall, to the north of Yong Chang. The trip was partly off-road and at one point we were sure water would come flooding in the car doors, as the water level was really high outside, but […]
Today has been all about transport. We got the bus to Wuwei to find a hotel that would store our extra baggage while we walk the stretch Yong Chang-Wuwei. The three hour trip was very pleasant. For once, the driver drove safely and kept to below 100 km/h or 55 […]
Just a quick note to say Jon and I have been in Zhangye today too. Tomorrow we head off to continue walking the Great Wall. The plan is to go to Wuwei to deposit a small rucksack, which we will not be carrying, to an hotel there, and then go […]