salmon2jalan

Hoh Hot- morning

Hello from China,
Well it is a late start this morning for BAOTOU so taking advantage of this free internet service from the hotel.
the rest of the members had a good day sightseeing temples and shopping. apparently here is the place to buy Cashmere sweaters and scarfs. Well I went to a special Branded Cashmere shop but "May YO"! which means "no have", for big busted people. John sighed a relief.!
We went into the "INNER MONGOLIA NORMAL UNIVERSITY" instead. Strolled through. Very big and spread out. Could not find the "ABNORMAL UNIVERSITY though"!

Hoh Hot is a large city and it seems to us more University and Students. Walked into the Agriculture University this morning to find a Post Office but it was closed. May Yo again! Out of electricity!

We are delayed now again, this time Chief Ninja's car is leaking oil!
We checked ours two days ago to see it the filter needed changing. Everyone was changing after the 5000kms. so we thought OK we too lah! Well John found oil in the filter so he changed to a new one. Thank God! then I nagged him to call Singapore Nissan to find out why. Our Service Manager there said it was supposed to have oil to keep the dust off. New type for us lah! So Salmon goes into the dustbin to find it but it is 'all lady' gone! Nothing gets wasted here. Everything is useable that is why the villages look like a dump.

Salmon has gone to the Bank to change or get some money. This is not so easy here. Credit cards are at most times "May Yo" you can see I am begining to be familiar with this word. Well hope he succeeds.

There has been an activity of busyness even though the late start. This is where much housekeeping and cleaning gets done with the cars. John thinks it is an absolute waste of time. Rather go walk-about.hence I sent him to find the Bank etc. Now he will delay the rest.
Off to Baotou to see Ghengis Khan. We are heading downstream from now on after Hei He.

posted by Ann Salmon @ 9:56 am