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Fascinating adventures within and around Baotou

By Bruce Connolly | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-09-21 08:32
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Resonant Sand Gorge near Dongsheng 1997 [Photo by Bruce Connolly/chinadaily.com.cn]

Back in the compound a large yurt functioned as a dining room where great piles of mutton were served up along with fried potatoes, corn, mapo dofu and copious quantities of baijiu accompanied by lots of traditional singing! Darkness had fallen, but the overhead sky was bright with so many stars. Across the valley the sound of a steam-hauled train heading to Dongsheng resonated as I walked back out of the oasis to again climb a star-lit dune. For those moments I was an explorer!

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