I am lying in the tent now. It is the coolest evening since I was walking with my brother a few months ago and I’m really enjoying it! It’s still light outside, but the sun has set. As I rolled out the three season Western Mountaineering sleeping bag earlier, I […]
I have been working on pictures and washing clothes etc in Yinchuan. Today I went to the market and bought a large mosquitoe net. Then I went to a shop and asked if they could custom-make a net to wrap on the outside of my desert hat. The ten year […]
Sorry – I have been unable to log on to the website the last days. The website has had technical problems, but things seem to be back to normal now. I will write about the last days soon, but here follows a short summary: The last days I have been […]
Slept really well in the tent tonight because the wind made it cool. I thought I should check the statement of the women yesterday, so when I lifted the groundsheet of the tent, I looked for scorpions. I saw three!! One of them stopped moving, but two of them headed […]
I got up at five o’clock today and started walking just as the sun rose over the desert dunes to the East. The mosquitoes were gone and man that had let me stay for the night was sleeping. I was glad that it was cool. As the dawn grew to […]
There was a wedding at the hotel I was prescribed to use. As I was checking out, there were fireworks right outside of the reception. It was so intense that ALL the people inside held their ears! A fun way to celebrate and looked like all the children (Including me) […]
I started walking at about two o’clock today. The temperature was noticeably cooler and I could hold a good speed without sweating too much. There is no known Great Wall between the stretch I just followed and the next stretch that starts East of Yinchuan. Scholars seem divided to where […]
I have just checked the weather forecast and the temperature will drop tomorrow and stay at or under 30 C (86 F) I can almost not believe that this little miracle has finally happened and am really looking forward to somewhat cooler days. The Chinese website is coming along and […]
There has been a really hot spell in Ningxia the last couple of days. This will last for some more days, but then the heat should drop to only about 30 C. (86 F) I’m in Yinchuan working on the Chinese website now and will stay here until the heat […]
I started walking at about nine o’clock. The last days of walking along irrigation channels put me a bit too far West, so the first 3-4 kilometres I walked Westwards to get to the starting point of the suspected Great Wall in the area. I walked Westwards along a dirt […]