ManZhouLi is a city located in inner Mongolia. It is super close to Russia. We arrived yesterday morning at about 9am. It is super cold and it doesnt seem like i was in either china or russia... its kind weird... the architecture itself is very Russian, but the people are chinese. There are Russians everywhere (they dont live here, they only come for shopping, and seem to look down on chinese... i donno at least it seems like it) and chinese. Its funny because when we walk on the street these blonde tall Russians looks at us with wonder, as so do Chinese. My expectations were completly different, i though that we were going to blend in more (i though that maybe chinese here had more white physical features, and were more russian like)that they were not going to look at us all the time -as they always do-...
This city is basically a big shopping mall for Russians. Its funny because when we approach a store, the chinese start to speak to us in Russian, and we have no idea what they are saying.. they say "____ cona"... i just know 'cona' is woman, or lady, but that is because we asked a chinese man what it meant haha... interesting...
Today we went to the Prairies, we also went to a big lake (which i forget what is called), it was very nice.. but VERY cold and VERY windy... we also went to this Manzhouli's man house who the taxi driver knew, and he showed us his house. He had 5 dogs -one was a super small and cute puppy- a cat with kittens -1mnth old!!!-, cows and sheeps. His house walls and bed are made of some sort of ceramic, and he uses his old style stove to somehow generate heat that you can feel on the ceramic walls. It was really cool. it was super small but enough for him apparently. It was quite interesting. I like this city, though not as much as Harbin, and just for a 'one time' visit.
Oh i forgot to tell ya.... the day we arrived we immediately went to the ticket window to buy our ticket back to Beijing, and guess what??? they didnt have any tickets other than the ones on the seating wagons... neither on sat, sun, or monday... so we had to buy those.. It may not sound so bad... not until you realize how far it is from Beijing in train... its about 30hours.... yes 30!
anyways my internet time is comming to an end, i shall say bye bye till next time.. xoxo
This city is basically a big shopping mall for Russians. Its funny because when we approach a store, the chinese start to speak to us in Russian, and we have no idea what they are saying.. they say "____ cona"... i just know 'cona' is woman, or lady, but that is because we asked a chinese man what it meant haha... interesting...
Today we went to the Prairies, we also went to a big lake (which i forget what is called), it was very nice.. but VERY cold and VERY windy... we also went to this Manzhouli's man house who the taxi driver knew, and he showed us his house. He had 5 dogs -one was a super small and cute puppy- a cat with kittens -1mnth old!!!-, cows and sheeps. His house walls and bed are made of some sort of ceramic, and he uses his old style stove to somehow generate heat that you can feel on the ceramic walls. It was really cool. it was super small but enough for him apparently. It was quite interesting. I like this city, though not as much as Harbin, and just for a 'one time' visit.
Oh i forgot to tell ya.... the day we arrived we immediately went to the ticket window to buy our ticket back to Beijing, and guess what??? they didnt have any tickets other than the ones on the seating wagons... neither on sat, sun, or monday... so we had to buy those.. It may not sound so bad... not until you realize how far it is from Beijing in train... its about 30hours.... yes 30!
anyways my internet time is comming to an end, i shall say bye bye till next time.. xoxo
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