Day 233 (China): Xining IV (finding out more about this place)

Note: I am running into issues with the flickr pictures. For some reason - I have a hunch what that reason is - I can’t access and include some of the flickr pictures on this blog. Bear with me as I am trying to figure things out. But do check out what’s on the flickr site, interesting people and places did meet the lens for sure.

So, I was bumming around in Xining and figured I would spend some time on the web when I decided to email Yuan, someone I had met a couple of days prior. And lo and behold we spent most of the day together. It was great … and I got to find out more about the place and the people. Yuan’s work leads him into the plateaus towards a province South of here and he himself belongs to that ethnicity as well.

It was an interesting day we spent walking around the city and exchanging views about all sorts of things.

There are other big squares in Xining.

Then it was dinner time … it was yummy, but the best part of course was the company. The Hot Pot extravaganza is bound to haunt me, but whatever will happen it was well worth it and I certainly wouldn’t have gone into one of the places by myself.