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Great Wall to Hexi Corridor

A picture perfect tidy cacophony of crops

Jo playing up to the audience eating a chicken head - SPCA where are you when you're needed?

terracing for rice reaching to the heavens

And something modern - cooling towers of a nuclear plant next to the tomatoes

Implement shed made of straw

Paddy fields as far as teh eye can see

Pumphouse and irrigation canals

And irrigation systems established over the centuries that enable it to all happen

Not a crevace wasted

The Great Wall near its western end - a double wall made of rammed earth.

The greenhouses that frequent the productive lands. Cloth tops pulled over at night to keep the warmth in

Different workers - agricultural, wall builders and power line electricians

The Hexi Corridor at its narrowest - a separate mountain range on each side

Threatening over the lush valley stand the earthen cliffs

Last time I saw a solar kettle like this was at the Field Days

Each puncture encourages Dave and Captain Bryan to engage in a strange mating dance upon the rubber

The lush cropping fields of the Hexi Corridor - a narrow valley running 1500 kms from the Taklamakan down to Xian

Very different to the Wall at the Eastern end where it's made of stone and far better preserved

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