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The Great Wall to the right. It took a long time to get around the deep valley beneath.
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This child wasn't afraid of Way guo ren (people from abroad) and enjoyed her ice cream while looking at me eating my noodles in the shop.
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Not all alone on my way to Jingtai…
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One thing is the intense heat in the desert. What makes things worse is that there are no trees to hide under when taking a break.
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Work on the pipeline from Kyrgyzstan to Shanghai. In the background you can see the Great Wall crossing over the pipeline. Some places, the construction work makes it difficult to follow the Great Wall.
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This guy won the staring contest hands down. I was waiting for a buss in Jingtai, and noticed this guy that just couldn't stop staring. I tried to stare back, but soon understood that I had no chance.
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The remnants of the Great Wall, and a watchtower. See the piece of wood sticking out of the watchtower? They used sticks to help strengthen the rammed earth. Here you can also see the Great Wall has been strengthened with a outer layer of stones.
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Some places I have to detour 2-3 kilometres to get over irrigation channels. This day, I just managed to get across without a long detour.
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A shepherd demonstrating his sling capabilities. He slung a stone the size of half a fist far and fast!
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You can see the Great Wall in the middle. But now there were massive holes on both sides of the Great Wall due to open mining.
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It is hard to convey height in pictures, but this is one of the steepest places I have walked so far. It was on the day I saw the Yellow River.
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Early bloomers.
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If you can't see it, you're not looking hard enough!
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I met this happy bunch of pupils outside the local shop. It was their mid-day school break. They wanted me to write my name in their books.
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One of the pupils from the previous picture didn't have any paper I could write my name on. Instead, he stretched out his arm. Of course – why should he be the only one?
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Tadpole hunting.
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The Bactrian camel is thought to have a wild population only a few hundred. These were domesticated. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/968991.stm
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Timetable at a bus station. It helps to know some basic spoken Chinese to make sure you end up in the right place. I know hardly any written Chinese, but try to learn the sign for the next place I’m going to.
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Some days I take comfort in that the locals also think it is TOO hot.
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Landscape from Inner Mongolia.
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In Inner Mongolia we walked past this spruce tree forest. It made me think of the forests surrounding Oslo.
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There are plenty of these grasshoppers around, and they are big. If I'm very hungry, I eat four or five for dinner… Yummy!
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I first thought these two flies were having fun. then I saw the top one was a preditor with it’s ‘beak’ firmly placed inside of the fly below.
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Two models getting ready to display shoes at a show in a shopping mall in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.
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I found this watchtower just meters from the airport North of Zhongwei. Luckily, I could get to it without climbing any fences.
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Plenty of sand in the shoes after walking in loose sand. Picture taken on top of the watchtower on yesterday’s picture.
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Bad weather closing in quickly.
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