Me-go: Around-the-World

I’ve added two new galleries of photos: Erlianhot and Hohhot here. In an attempt to be less confusing I named this gallery “NW China” to keep it seperate from “China” which was the gallery from my trip to China in 2004. If you haven’t looked at that I suggest spending some time as it covers 6 weeks across China to some more interesting places than Hohhot.

For those sticklers out there Erlianhot is actually the Mongolian border town and these photos were taken just after having our passports stamped out of Mongolia and into China. However, I think Erlianhot is more well-known, at least to me, than whatever the Chinese border town is.

I have photos from Jiayuguan (although it was raining) and Dunhuang waiting to be sorted on my computer so hang tight for those. I promise to write a long story about my Mongolian Gobi trip as well, I just haven’t had time to sit down with my computer for a few hours and I think most people want me to keep things in real time as much as possible.

Tonight I have a sleeper train around 10pm to Turpan. The train line doesn’t run into Dunhuang so I have a few hour bus ride to the closest train station and then the overnight trip. I hope some of you out there are learning about geography by following along with me. All you have to do is a Google search of these places to find out about them and their location. Turpan is also sometimes called Turfan and the Chinese here call it something that sounds like Tulufan. It’s a few hours SE of Urumqi, which is the capital of the Xinjiang Province in teh far Northwest of China.