Fuddland

Having befriended a quite crazy local cab driver willing to take us far and wide, we went to Dálài Hú — about an hour’s drive south of Mǎnzhōulǐ — and were surprised to discover that, despite the recent warm weather, the lake was still almost completely frozen over.

There were very few people around, despite [or perhaps because of?] this area being a designated nature reserve, and we spent several hours wandering along the edge of the lake and on the cliffs above. I’d have loved to have spent a few days travelling around the circumference — you can see on Google Maps that it’s one of the largest lakes in China [possibly the world], but unfortunately there just wasn’t time.

[For more, see all the photos I’ve tagged with Dalai Lake on Flickr.]

The following is an entry which follows on from the above:

1. At the Russian border [Fuddland]. Excerpt: Our initial attempt to visit the border with Russia ended in partial failure: we were indeed taken to a border crossing by a taxi driver, but it was the purely functional one for immigration and import/export purposes--entirely uninteresting, tourist-w...

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srh | 2006 / 05 / 17 – 21:21

Damn you and your links to Google Maps! ;)

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