day 193: 河口 (hekou) – 土槽湾 (tucaowan) = 15,6km

See the green thing I’m crossing through on the map?

Well, it’s a long fertile valley, just like an oasis…

…embedded between the arid mountains in the east and in the west:

One of the local specialties they grow here is a kind of rose-bud.

…too bad they had already finished harvesting almost all of it when I got there today:

It must have been very pretty to look at just a short time ago.

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I’m spending the night in a small village that seems to consist of only a dozen houses. There’s a small antique shop though:

And they rent out beds in there:

Now here’s to everyone who might have gotten some weird ideas about this walking thing being totally romantic and all – it’s called “find the loo”:

Okay, this is an easy one; just step around the litter and the chickens – and make sure not to fall into the pit on the way (hint: never forget to bring your own toilet paper!)

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And here’s to everyone who might have gotten some weird ideas about this walking thing being all lonely and stuff – it’s called “dinner with people you’ve just met”:

The lady who runs the antiquities shop/guesthouse put some roses in my room because I had told her that I liked them.

Then we had some authentic countryside cuisine:

I guess this is what it comes down to today: good food poor loo.

Soundtrack: Christian Cannabich (Grodd) – “Symphony No. 50 in D Minor: Presto”

—total: 2359,5km