Tag Archives: walk🚶🏻

This post is about a 15km walk from Pingding to Yangquan. I comfortably walk from one urban center to the next. Here in China, the administration can sometimes look a bit intimidating: …even kafkaesque in a way. I was a bit grumpy in the morning, because AGAIN the night had been cold. So when I […]

This post is about an 18km walk from Baijing to Pingding. I start walking with a grudge, and I end it with an even bigger grudge. …of course the radiator didn’t work. The coldest night so far. Arctic. I woke up with a grudge and couldn’t get rid of it for the rest of the […]

This post is about a 21km walk from Jiuguan to Baijing. It snows for the first time, and I see my first bit of the Great Wall. Everything was white, and it was… SNOW!! I said goodbye to the friendly farmers where I had spent the night: Then I rushed out the door. G307 was […]

This post is about a 29km walk from Tianchang to Jiuguan. I leave the highway to see the Yujia Stone Village. Then I get lost in the hills. Sick of me going off about all the terrible sins against the environment? Well, things went in a slightly different way today. But first things first. It […]

This post is about a 14km walk from Jingxing to Tianchang. I see a lot of polluted water and coal dust. In the end I get a German capri sun. Back on G307, I saw something unexpected: Beautiful. No idea what kind of bird this was, but I thought: majestic wings over the gates of […]

This post is about a 23km walk from Luquan to Jingxing. I walk past a prison, a lot of environmental damage, and a funeral procession. I woke up and went down the hallway to brush my teeth: Then I put on my backpack and started walking on that long winding road. I had no idea […]

This post is about an 18km walk from Shijiazhuang to Luquan. I am back in the countryside, and I see my first mountain. I walked west today. That’s a good thing, because west is where my home is. There shall be no more walking south for a while. On the way out from the city […]

This post is about a 24km walk from Zhengding to Shijiazhuang. I visit a few temples and help out a Buddhist monk. For those of you who might have been wondering what my room (my cold room) looked like last night: The glowing disc is the electrical heater I paid 8 yuan for yesterday. It […]

This post is about a 9km walk within Zhengding. I visit the Journey To The West Palace, the Tianning Temple and the Longxing Temple. War! When I woke up this morning I thought I could hear a military conflict going on outside: gunshots, detonations, laughter… Laughter? You might have already guessed it: Someone was throwing […]

This post is about a 26km walk from Xinle to Zhengding. I hang out with some middle-school students in their work unit. I said good-bye to my friends in Xinle today. Life in the spa was very pleasant, but eventually I had to get going, no matter what. On the road I saw someone who seemed […]

This post is about a 21km walk from Cheng’anpu to Xinle. I hang out with villagers and visit a mythical place called Fuxitai. Today was all about people. I wandered around fairly relaxed, except for my feet that had still not quite healed up. And because I was hurting and because I like resting more […]

This post is about a 24km walk from Dingzhou to Cheng’anpu. The weather is good, but my foot is bad. I think about exoticism. The sky was azure and made everything look like Indian summer today. There was clean air and there were golden sun rays, it was cold in the shadows and warm in […]

This is a post about a 3km walk within Dingzhou. I look at the Liaodi Pagoda and teach an English class in a vocational school. At nine in the morning I looked at my breath: it was a white cloud disappearing in the quietness of my hotel room. The inside of my sleeping bag was […]

This post is about a 12km walk from Wangdu to Dingzhou. I see a bunch of dogs in cages and try to have a conversation with a kid. The reason for today’s title is right here in the first picture. NO LOVE TODAY 今日不爱 – the translation is a bit rough, I know. Actually, this […]

This post is about a 13km walk from Fangshunqiao to Wangdu. An immense fog has swallowed up the land, and I see a few accidents. I could hardly see. Everything was white, and it wasn’t snow. the fog Holding the land in its soft embrace, the fog brought destruction to the ones who drove haste-fully. […]

This post is about a 23km walk from Baoding to Fangshunqiao. I get lost in a hole in the ground, and climbing out isn’t easy. I woke up and I continued my walk. There was not much to see on the way. Mainly because of the fog. It was a misty day that made buildings […]

This post is about a 5km walk within Baoding. My new friend Zhu Hui leaves, and my old friends from Beijing come. Last night, Zhu Hui and I had one last TV supper. We got us some chicken, a few bags of chips and a bottle of coke. There was a movie with Jet Li […]

This post is about a 39km walk from Gucheng to Baoding. It’s my longest walk yet – and it damn nearly destroys me. I got help today, and I needed it badly. Waking up in that sub-zero hotel room in Gucheng, Zhu Hui came up with an idea: “Why don’t we just walk all the way […]

This post is about a 19km walk from Dingxing to Gucheng. My lens is still broken, and in the end my friend Zhu Hui comes back. First the bad news: My wide angle lens is definitely broken – here’s one of the last pictures I was able to take: I am in deep despair over […]

This post is about an 11km walk from Gaobeidian to Dingxing. It’s the day that my wide-angle lens stopped working, and I was sad about it. Today I didn’t walk much, because some things fell apart. But I didn’t know that yet when I started walking in the morning. I said good-bye to my friend […]