Inner Mongolia winter

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Having finished work and now getting a week off for Chinese new year festivities, I'm in a very good mood.
Tomorrow (07-02) is new year's day, so at the moment there is loads of fireworks being fired in the streets.
Especially the loud bangs, favourably the ones that last a minute or longer seem to be very popular, they woke me up at 09:30 this morning after a wild and extremely fun night in Hohhot's nightlife.
Weirdly enough, everything is for sale on the streets! It's actually being sold year-round in the shops, fireworks are used to celebrate birthdays, weddings etc.

Tomorrow I will be leaving to Datong to visit some of the local sights with the other foreign teachers. Should be good.
Another exciting train trip to look forward to!
See you in the year of the mouse...!

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Photos

Ice on my windows
Temperatures in Hohhot can get as low as -25 at night!

Funny
Looking at us playing with fireworks on the street.

Comments

[vikram]

hohhot
Hi! this is Vikram from India.stumbled upon your blog. Brought back fond memories of my year long stay in Hohhot 2006 october-2007 october. I Lived at the holiday inn and was there on work from my indian company whose clients were China Mobile. How do you like it in Hohhot? What are the places you usually hangout there? arent too many actually. I made quite a few expat and chinese friends there . Hope you continue to enjoy your stay there. xin nian kuai le -v

[maarten]

looking good bru))
he johan)) leuke foto's, schitterend al dat vuurwerk wat gewoon op de straten wordt verkocht)) how was the trip met de andere teachers?? ben nu in nairobi gisteren aangekomen vanuit ethiopia schitterend trip gehad!! nairobi is very safe newspaper is writing crab like ussually dat het gevaarlijk is hier)) nairobi is cool - very modern city will spend some time here before going to tzn. take it easy bru)) greetings from you brother.