Fuddland

Having befriended a quite crazy local cab driver willing to take us far and wide, we went to Dalai Hu—about an hour’s drive south of Manzhouli—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.]

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srh | 2006 / 05 / 17 – 21:21

Damn you and your links to Google Maps! ;)

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