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Dinner time!

It is not water in the big wine glass. It’s 37% proof spirit. ~12 500ml bottles of that stuff, among the 14 of us. Scary…

Finest lamb and beef I’ve ever had.

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The new Hohhot Museum. Gigantic square in front of the museum. WICKEDLY COOL. MUST. SEE.

Free to get in. Sunday morning. Long queue right before 9am.

Astroturf behind the museum.

Handsome museum staff.

Huge dinosaur. It visited Hong Kong not too long ago.

Ancient rock drawings in Mongolia. These are replicas.

Hmm…

Mongolian mobile tent. Genghis Khan had one which could seat [...]

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We took the afternoon flight from Shenzhen, which took three hours to get to Hohhot. Got bumped up to First Class. Absolutely charming air hostess. Food was so-so. Got there at ~1800 hours. The aerial view outside the window when the aircraft was approaching landing was simply stunning.

Nice new airport. Style of Norman Foster. This [...]

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