In October, Mark traveled to Inner Mongolia to give a speech at an opening ceremony for a fertilizer factory.
He traveled with the group from Hohhot (largest city in Inner Mongolia) to Alisan, which is about a seven hour drive west into the desert. The Inner Mongolian culture is a lot like the Southern US, with lots of singing, dancing, and drinking. The cuisine is primarily meat-based (lamb and beef) and the drink of choice was baizhou, a rice wine that can best be compared to formaldahyde. The local people were quite excited to share a drink with a westerner.
A hike through the desert revealed many sandstone rock formations as well as a remote temple and a lake.
After a few days of site-seeing, Mark returned to work, getting dropped off at a toll booth (in the middle of nowhere) to get picked up by another car and taken to a construction site outside of Linhe.
After enjoying lunch in a traditional Mongol Bao (hut), he drove to Baotou to catch a flight home - capping off a very enlightening 4 days.
Sandstone rock formations
Famous rock formation .... hmmm... we wonder why.
Mark really wanted to ride this donkey.
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... you were itching to ride someone's ass, weren't you? Anhdai.
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