Me and my Aussie hiking buddy, Tim. The woman fanning us is a Mongolian farmer. When she's not planting or harvesting small fields in the valleys and terraces of the mountains, she follows tourists around, helping them climb the wall, teaching them Chinese words and fanning them off at every tower. Of course after two hours of this, she suckered me into buying a souvenir T-shirt for 100RMB ($14usd). Then we got to the end and they had the same shirt for 20RMB.
The Chinese say you cannot become a true hero until you've visited the Great Wall.
1 comment:
I'm proud of you for buying that T-shirt from the individual who gave you her time and services, rather than patronizing the local Wal-mart that low-balls everyone. hope you buy quite a few T-shirts on your travels!
Is walking along the Great Wall as monotonous (read, boring) as it looks? Everyone wants to know if you will be trying to get into any Olympics events...
xox--Mom
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