Our holiday journey from Jiangxi...
...to Inner Mongolia
The first leg of the trip was a 17 hour train to Beijing
Jet and Andy Having fun with the local answer to the swine flu
When in Rome
Leg two: Sleeper bus - 6 hours
Our hosts. Shane's mother on the far right
Shane's store (us with his mother)
Notice the yurts on the top of the buildings
This guy is burning Genghis Khan into some kind of thick, fuzzy cloth. The tool looked like a soldering iron of sorts. There were so many cool pictures made like this and they were really cheap so I got a few myself.
We took a one night excursion out into the grasslands
We stayed in modernized yurts
It was funny when we first saw the horses because our Chinese friend said, "They're so big!" and then we all laughed.
After the horse ride we went for a walk
Our best friends and guides toHohhot
I was a little surprised that this place made me miss home a lot. It doesn't look like Pentwater but perhaps because it wasn't a city, and it was just nice to get away from things for a few days. Now that I think about it maybe it is the peacefulness of a sunset on never ending land out in front of you, similar to a sunset on Lake Michigan.
On October 1st seven of us arrived in Beijing at the train station to get a sleeper bus up to Hohhot. We stepped out of the train station about 2 miles from Tiananmen Square and we saw what about 1.3 billion wished they could witness.
Once there we had homemade hot pot, met up with some other foreign teachers to shoot off some firecrackers for the national holiday, went to a shopping street, an amusement park, wandered the city, and went camping for a night in a yurt.
1 comment:
I enjoyed the video! You guys have had plenty of adventures! We know a couple from Wisconsin who are in Mongolia now with their kids. Sounds cold.
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