I was so tired after todays’s walk that I just pitched the tent, sent off the GPS signal, wrote a few notes in the diary and then fell asleep.

The first 10 km were in pretty hilly terrain. I walked them with one of the photographers I met the day before. With the GPS points I had pre-selected, we walked back into Hebei and then to Liaoning where the photographer headed back to his base.

As we descended into Liaoning I was surprised at how flat it was. Soft rolling hills going into the distant north and east. I couldn’t help imagining that I was a little Hobbit getting close to Hobbitun after having ‘seen the world’.

At the first little shop in Liaoning I bought 5,000 fire crackers and blew them up a little later to celebrate that I was in the last Province and to ward off any evil spirits that would interfere with the walk 🙂

The firecrackers cost RMB 15 which is a about $2.5. If you want to celebrate in style, this is the place to do it.

37 kilometers today