Way Out West
August 6th 2011 I have spent the last four days in minority-dominated and mountainous Western China. First stop was Xi’ning, the capital of Qinghai province. I sat next to some interesting people during the sixteen hour journey (no more beds were available) from Luoyang. There was the father with his two young sons, and a friendly, portly, middle-aged man. I slept for the first two hours or so. Upon awakening,
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