here are the photos from our trip to inner mongolia. over the chinese national day break we took a 27 hour train ride from wuhan to hohhot.
there are an aweful lot of pictures here. i just had to show them all to you. believe me, there are more.
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hard sleeper
here's a pic of the 'hard sleeper' class on a chinese...
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zhao jun's masoleum
here is a stone carving at the tomb of one of china's four classical...
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a settlement south of hohhot
notice how all of the old-style homes are oriented toward the south. it's...
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looking toward hohhot
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the top of zhao jun's masoleum
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mongolian script
this tablet is near the entrance to zhao jun's masoleum.
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bicycles on the streets of hohhot
unlike wuhan, where we are living, it seems that bicycles are still...
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trucks and bicycles
this guy is carting a load of coal by bike. you can see just about...
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a whole lot of bicycles
i suppose it's much easier to ride a bike here seeing as the cars,...
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i don't know what these are
they're all over the place though
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andy's new coat
a people's liberation army overcoat. for 40 yuan. $5. what a...
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a gate off of a main street
there are lots of these gates around. they're really intricately...
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a gate leading into an alley
it's great to take a walk down these hutong (alleys) where only bikes and...
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the countryside north of hohhot
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more villages
...with houses oriented north and south.
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a mud-brick house near the highway
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the highway through the grasslands
not very much going on here. but that's the point.
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horse riders
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our arrival at an encampment
well, more like a tourist trap. after a 15 minute drive on rutted dirt...
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andy and another view of the 'camp'
the women here are renting mongol outfits for the afternoon
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adam bargaining for a mongol costume
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mongolians
edward and vivi look like they could be mongols. adam well, that's a...
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a rancher's house deep in the grasslands
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riding the mongolian horses
back in the day, the mongols used these to conquer most of eurasia....
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a dangerous-looking mongolian...
if i ever saw one. i think the horse is a little small for you adam.
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