One week in Inner Mongolia with a Mongol family was one of the few times in my life in which I could just get detached from the outside world.
In the middle of the grassland, at one hour from any surrounding village, with bad Internet connection, living in a ger (yurt) aloud me to have a detox from modern life.
The time went slow, and I passed it almost exploring the surrounding landscape, observing groups of camels, cows and sheeps passing by, eating homemade pasta and local food, and talking with locals.
Maybe it can seems boring and also a waste of time (and according to the modern society standard it is).
But it is a experience I recommend to have at least once in your life.
Of course, I also had to accept the fact that the bathroom I was going to use was not only public but also a squat bathroom, that I wouldn't be able to take a shower every day and that I would sleep on a hard mattress in a cool yurt.
But the sunset, the stars, the feeling of quietness and ciclic life really worth it!
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After the long trip from the South of China (Shenzhen) to the north I had the time to pass one night in my beloved Beijing, which is the city where I lived for more than three years.
I had the time to have a stroll around Houhai (后海). This is one of the place I love more in Beijing, and I think that this is linked to my memories. The first time I went in China I was 24 and I was studying at the Beiwai daxue.
Here is where one of the teacher I loved more took us to eat together and showed us the hutongs (the Beijing traditional houses). I don't remember much of that day, but any time I go back there I remind all the people who joined me in Houhai in different times and occasions, and that at the end left China before me.
It's a nostalgic place to me who gives me good memories but also remind me that many people pass through your life just for a moment.
Even though this feeling can looks sad, this is what gives me the strength to go on and don't look back.
Cause the past is past and the present gives you infinite possibilities. 🌅
This is Houhai for me.
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One year ago, September 3rd, i was leaving Shenzhen to start my long adventure of 4 months, that at the end became 6 months of nomadic travel.
I was excited and also a bit afraid I couldn't arrive to my purpose to see the whole North of China, and more, I was worried that i wasn't able to keep what I promised you guys: a long trip.
I never travelled so long and the first step wasn't easy at all.
22 hours no stop on a train without bed and a decent seat.
I had to stay in a wagon with a lot of people who were trying to sleep sitting in the hard seat. I was smelling any kind of cheap food&soup and trying myself to sleep while people standing and talking loudly were not able to shut up also during the night time.
Many people told me that I was lucky to have the time to travel and that they were envying me for that amazing opportunity I had.
Well, of course I had a great opportunity that I could never achieve if I didn't have the "luck" to keep the visa, but this could never also be possible if I didn't spare the money I gained by myself in a foreign country alone, if I wasn't a dreamer, if I wasn't a insistent person, and especially somebody who try actively to realize her dream.
You see, when you look at somebody luck, try also to see the hard work and the character that is behind it: beautiful things are made both of luck and persistence; external helps and inner strength.
Also don't think that long trips are just made of beautiful experiences.
As you can see from the pics I had to spare the money as much as I can to enjoy them for things which worth it.
So, more than focusing on luck, get inspired from people strength and persistence, make them your achievement, and then realize what in the past you were just able to envy of people.
Use the envy to develop your desire to make things become true, find solutions.
Stop to be public, become actor!
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Chinese sponge? Not even near!
In the high Tibetan grassland from #kham and inner #tibet if you have a good eye you can find
the so called "dongchong xiacao" (冬虫夏草), literally meaning "worm in winter, grass in summer". Contrary to popular belief, this thing is not a worm and not also a plant, but a fungus. In fact, some kind of plants "infect" the worm that ate its spores and gradually grow up in its body eventually killing it. During the summer time, the fungus grow up from the body of the worm going outside the ground like a kind of plant.
According to the Chinese medicine, this "worm" have the power to regulate the immune system, to protect from tumor, to give energy to the body, strengthen the heart and the liver, regulate the respiratory system and the kidney, stimulate the blood production, regulate the blood lipid to mention some.
Unfortunately, according to the State food and drug administration (国家食品药监局) and also the last video I posted here, it doesn't protect from tumor and it cannot be considered as a proper product for the health care. More over, it can also cause skin irritation, constipation and poison the intestine.
What is sure is that the price of this worm-shaped fungus is very high: around 500 yuan (65 euros) for 1 gram.
Would you dare to try one?
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