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- Highway leading in to Shenmu in Shaanxi. The traffic goes BOTH ways believe it or not.
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- Coal anyone?
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- Recycling station. This man is returning beer bottles.
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- I have seen a lot of these power stations.
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- A man collecting plastic bottles along a road.
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- Girls waiting patiently to cross the road.
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- I lost five out of six rounds in this drinking game…
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- From the Blade monastery by Shenmu.
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- Here the ice from the inner tent has dropped on the sleeping bag because of the a strong wind, and then melted.
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- I liked the dog house a lot more than the dog.
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- Drying my sleeping bag in the window of a small restaurant.
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- This cat was sceptical to entering the house when I was around.
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- Ready to start walking after a night in a house by the Great Wall.
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- This man was a real charmer, and although we couldn't communicate a lot, we got on great.
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- New years eve in a simple guesthouse. I celebrated with two Snickers bars and an M&M. I also called my girlfriend at midnight Chinese time.
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- Closing in on the Yellow River at the border between Shaanxi, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia.
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- A boat that might have carried me over to Shanxi if it had not been for the ice on the Yellow River.
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- Ruddy Shelducks on the icy Yellow River. A typical bird species of water(!) in the deserts of Inner Asia.
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- I found this Temple in the first floor of a large restored watchtower by Hequ.
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- For some reason it felt like I was moved back to the Ming Dynasty period when I approached this watchtower.
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- The nights have been very cold in China lately. I sometimes see dogs, cats and other animals that have not made it through the coldest nights.
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- This was the first watchtower with brick archtowers I was able to walk in to.
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- Surprisingly, the pigs can handle very low temperatures. Must be all the fat! These two stayed as close together as possible.
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- A round watchtower.
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- Playing on an icy lake.
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- Here the Great Wall climbs along the edge of a ridge. The Yellow River flowing by to the right.
