April in the Chinese national month of Ben's travels... not really... but kind of. So we start of my whirlwind month of travel with a bike ride to the countryside. We rode our bike to the "near by" town of JiYuan. This ride was pretty awesome and pretty exhausting. Here are some ncie photos from our ride.
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| With such a long history, there are museums in every little town and village in China. |
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| The wheat is starting to sprout. |
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| Here is a fantastic place to play a game or too of pool or get Tetanus. |
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| Just a nice casual bike ride in the country side |
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| Just a normal Shepard, and his sheep and goats... I think I might eat one of these little guys later. |
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| Do you see it? What an odd way to get breakfast... |
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| A rather vicious guard dog... |
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| The crossing of the Yellow River |
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| I think I'm being followed |
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| Wheat and plastic farms... |
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| Welcome to JiLi, which means Lucky town (but it shares the same sound with the word for "Chicken") |
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| Now leaving Chicken town... |
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| Stop following me! |
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| A window... in a hill... to a house... in a hill... oh... |
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| Yay... another hill... |
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| Fields of wheat hidden in every nook and cranny |
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| A neighborhood of cave houses... Old school |
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| Nothing says "healthy bike ride" like having a smoke break |
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| Spring is here |
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| Depression is such a huge problem in China that it's started to hit their foliage... |
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| This road doesn't look like it'll be ending anytime soon... |
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| No shooting lasers are cups and shuttlecocks (tee hee) |
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| Hard to see here, the square peak is actually a shrine |
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| There be monkeys here... mean smelly monkeys... that try and steal cameras... stupid primates |
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| What a sweet couple |
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| There's that shrine again |
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| Nice hotel room... super uncomfortable bed... |
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| Sun setting on the shrine, well near the shrine... |
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| Grilled potato chips, SOOOOOO tasty |
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| This is what the chick tried to do... |
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| So we took it's wings... HA! HA! HA! |
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| Now you can see the shrine... kind of... |
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| MMMM... this beef tastes odd... like Donkey... |
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| Back in Luoyang... well almost |
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| My allergies worst nightmare! (not Li the flowers) |
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| Layers of wheat and vegetation |
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| Another sad tree... |
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| Can you spot the wild life? |
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| Come on already... this hill isn't gonna finish it self |
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| CHAMPION! |
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| Colored layers |
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| That's one way to transport your re-bar |
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| Some parts of Spring are still trying to ... well... spring |
Zaijian
Who has two thumbs and laughs her head off when reading your blog?......This chic! Good to see that all is well. Hope to see more, that is courtesy of the Chinese gov't :-)
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