Quick report = cold in the tent.
Cloudy weather, but good visibility unlike when I set up the tent yesterday evening. In the first valley I found a small restaurant and ordered a big noodle dish, another for the road and two servings of delicious salt peanuts. Bought 2.5 litres of Ice Tea of which one litre was drunk with the meal. I also got out my sleeping bag after asking, and let it dry a little in the window. It is not wet, but damp.
Walking the Great Wall was fairly easy today which left more time to walking and less to figuring out where to go!
Just about 50 metres south of the Great Wall Route point for today, there is a fantastic pathway along the Great Wall that has a deep valley on each side. Walking it felt like something out of Lord of the Rings. There is a fairly large fortress just a couple of hundred metres to the north.
In the tent I can hear and feel explosions far below me. Walked past a massive coal mine today.
Several people have given notice that the websites are not always available. I hope the problem is resolved but ask the internet service provider if the problems persist.
20 kilometres today
So, in the tent, you can hear explosions far below you. Hope it is not your tummy 🙂 You must eat more man!
Judging from Google Map it is still fairly up-and-down terrain in front of you.
Hi brother Jon, luckily my tummy has behaved well lately, but I probably shouldn’t have said that, because that’s when things turn the wrong way… Yes – I have heard the section coming up is pretty challenging, and am excited to see what it looks like. But after that there should be a fairly flat stretch in eastern Shanxi.