My first blog of many to come from Hohhot, the capital of the province of Inner Mongolia in China. Hohhot is located northwest of Beijing, 10 hours by overnight train, and has a population of more than 2 million people, of which 20% mongol and 80% Han Chinese. My expectations of the city were very different from the real thing, it's a very nice city to spend a year in, almost like a chinese version of Las Vegas. The buildings are really nicely lit up, lots of neon lights and parks and the lot. Ofcourse it is winter now (-10 at night) so it will look a bit different, but absolutely not what I thought it would look like. On the train here , coming from Qinhuangdao on the eastcoast, I saw the landscape surrounding the
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