October 27, 2009
Yesterday, i received a call from a guest in Yinchuan. A spanish woman wanted to visit Khara Koto and also Ejinaqi in inner Mongolia. In fact, it’s a good idea but the time is very tight to get the special permits.
Nowadays,foreigners are not allowed travel freely in China. Some places have restirctions which make the foreigners have to find a suitable travel agency to hep them arrange the special permits in advance.
Foreigners travel to Ejinaqi will be required to apply the permits. And the permits need a in-country agency to apply from the government. That means, the foreigners can’t visit the speical places on their own. They have to use the Chinese to go with them. And this kind of permit will take some days to work it out. So i had to say sorry to the guest who gave me a call yesterday, because she wanted to go that places one day later. Time is very tight and we can’t make that joueney for her. It’s very easy to travel in China in big cities, but if you will go to somewhere special in China, please contatc a chinese local agency before you plan this journeny.
Let’s back to Khara Khoto. This place is also strange to most of Chinese. Maybe most of them have no idea about this city. And because the Ghoul Novel is very popular in 2008, there is a book called “Gui Chui Deng”《鬼吹灯》
I have found an article in the National Geographic to talk about the Alashan Plateau & Khara Khoto. But that article was written in 2002. For me, i went to Alashan plateau and Badain Jaran Desert in 2007 to report that area for a french magazine.
Recently, we have a french group go trekking in that place. The guide will bring back my favorate stone in that desert ” La rose de la desert ” Desert Crystal which made of sand and water.
If you are interest in this kind of places, you can write email to me and i can help to give you some suggestions.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khara-Khoto (Mongolian: Khar Khot “black city”; Chinese: 黑城 Hēichéng “black city”[1] or 黑水城 Hēishuǐchéng, “black water city”) is a medieval Tangut city in the Ejin khoshuu of Alxa League, in western Inner Mongolia, near the former Gashun Lake. It has been identified as the city of Etzina, which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo.
Alxa League (Mongolian: , Alaša ayimaɣ, Chinese: 阿拉善盟; pinyin: Ālāshàn Méng) is one of 12 prefecture level divisions and three extant leagues of Inner Mongolia. The league borders Mongolia to the north, Bayan Nur to the northeast, Wuhai and Ordos to the east, Ningxia to the southeast, and Gansu to the south and west. The capital is Bayan Hot (older name: 定远营 Dingyuanying) in the aimag’s Left Banner.
The Badain Jaran Desert (Chinese: 巴丹吉林沙漠; pinyin: Bādānjílín Shāmò) can be found in western Inner Mongolia. The desert covers 49,000 sq. kilometers (30, 000 sq. miles) spanning the provinces of Gansu and Ningxia in China as well as Inner Mongolia.
This desert is home to the tallest stationary dunes on Earth. Some of the dunes reach a height of 500 meters (1,600 ft.). The dunes are kept in place in the arid, windy region by an underground water source. Analyses of the ground water indicates that it is snowmelt that flows through fractured rock from mountains hundreds of kilometers away.
The desert also features over 100 spring-fed lakes that lie between the dunes, some of which are fresh while others are extremely saline. These lakes give the desert its name which is Mongolian for “mysterious lakes”.
October 26, 2009
” The peachblossom luck”
In china, if a ordinary man or a woman is very popular with the isomerism in a very shot time period, we will say he/she is on the Peachblossom luck.
In spring, i always search the places of the peachblossom and always ask my friend to take pics for me.
- Peachblossom lucky
I hope it can bring me the luck!
October 25, 2009
what should I write? everydays’ blog should have a topic. And i found it very hard at the beigining.
Ok, today’s new topic will be ” chicken soup” i made this afternoon.
1. Thaw the chicked meet from the refrigerator,
2. dip the chicken meat into the water (clean rice water) about 15 minutes,
3. clean the chicken meat with the cold water and dip them into the wine sauce and also add the ginger.about 10 minutes.and wash the meat with cold water again.
4. put all the meat in to the boiled water and boil it for 5 minutes.
5. Get the checken meat out and put in to cold water.
6. Pour a little oil in to the pan and fry the Chicken meat about 2 minutes.
7. Add cold water into the pan to boil it with the chicken. I add some peper as well as some wine sauce. I also put the Mint tea bag to boil together with big fire.
8. And later turn down the fire and boil the soup about 3 hours.
Beside the above, i also use the electric cooker made the Yin’er Soup. And since it’s process is not so complex, i will not bore to wirte it.
OK~i think it’s a nice begining!
With the simple words, and short paragraph I can’t make me fully understand. So don’t drove me to much
Last month i went to Tibet with my father and it’s a marvelous experience. I recommoned my father as a driver that can go with me to drive the Prado 4×4 vehicle back to Chengdu from Lhasa. And we really make it.
First we took train from Chengdu~
to be continue (forgive me~i would really appreciate that i have a chair at this moment)
October 16, 2009
October 14, 2009
It’s an intersesting proejct that i see from the douban ” I want to bring you back to my childhood”.
I think show the pictures of the childhood is a very romantic thing between lovers. Yes, besides that you have done the “face changing”. When we look back of our past pictures, it seems to watch another person’s life.
I was not so cute in my childhood,while my mother is still a beauty. She wants me have thick hair and long eyelashes, so she scissor my eyelahses with her quiver hands after when i come to the world just one month. And also shaved all the satiny hair on my head. Well, i can understand a mother’s strong willing of having a angel baby. But the results is i was bald until 2 years’ old. My mother was very ancious that i will be bald forever.
And i have experience a lot in my childhood and i was so eager to take with somone. As time gose by, i seems forget a lot, forget the words and something important. Hu~~~how time flys!
Matrxi don’t like to look back and he seems lives in the upcoming century and what he is doing now is to try his best back to future. George is very hard to say at this moment, I believe he enjoy the best time in his life(that means now or in future). So it seems i’m the most stupid guy who still wondering in my memory and want to bring my lover to my childhood.
It doens’t mean that i live a very bad life now, some people said i was live a very suitabel life and can go many places to travel. However, i still miss my childhood, it might not very speical, but i do want to share it with my lovers. I want to cover the shame when i was still a little girl and faced those days on my own.
October 12, 2009
In 20th June 2007 , there open a flight from Beijing to Mohe（Northern Villages In China）. It’s my birthday on that day and i make a wish that i will go to that place one day and experience the polar night.
These day, my colleague told me that she already has a baby and can’t go anywhere else these months. It do make me thinking a lot as a woman but not a mother. When we are still a child, we dream about where we can go and wondering in that fantastic world. I was so enjoy the ten minutes before everydays sleeping, because i can imagine lots of things : fall in love with the guy i like, became a mermaid when swimming in the sea, flying in the blue sky with my own wing.etc. It sounds like day dream, but i do enjoy it.
When i grows up, i have a nice job which can make me travel a lot. And now, i’m dreaming about going to Mohe, the Northern village in China during one of my birthday time. It doesn’t matter go there on my own, a soul journey can only be tastes by oneself. It make me feel younger just like the first time i read the fairy tale.
Nowadays, we can easily get some where we want to go, with the flight and other transportation vehicle, but we can also find some excuse not to go that places. Is that because we become lazy or lose passion? I know people choose somewhere to go must have a reason, and my reason can only be found in the destination.
October 10, 2009
It’s a story i heard from my friend who just back from Africa.
In 1960S, China send some people to Africa to do some help. And a story happend there. A young Chinese guy fell in love with a African girl. And later the girl got pregnancy. The chinese part insisted to ask the girl to do abortion. But the Chinese guy and the africa girl refused to do that. And then the Chinese part required the African part to pursuade the Africa girl to do the abortion. However, the head of the African village support the African gril to give birth to the Child. He said, this speical child is the symbol of the friendship between China and Africa.
The China part feel difficult to persuade the Africa part, so they gave high mental pressure to the young Chinese guy. They young guy didn’t want the girl get any hurt and also he wanted to keep their child. Later, he chose suicide to end this wrangle. The China part buried this poor guy’s body in haste and no longer interupt the girl’s life. On the contrary, the Africa part changed the village’s name to “Zhou” (the family name of that chinese guy to memory him. And their Child are already grow up and live a very good life.
October 6, 2009
The first test sentence i will left here would be “open your minds to see more” !
Many thanks to Matrix for showing this world to me!
Open 3p BLOG ‘s idea comes from Matrix. I know it the name may sounds a little exotic because of “3p”. However, in ancient China Confucius said ” Among three people, one can learn a lot from the ther two” . I know taht i can’t explained the sentence very exactly at this moment and i hope i can make it better in the future,
Open doors, open minds!
Sometimes we close our heart to others, the others can be your parents, your friends, your lovers. It may seems very hard to open at some moment, however, when you decide to open that, you will see more you haven’t see before.
