Why go to Ningxia? In most travel guides you don't even find this province. It's one of the smallest, newest and poorest provinces of China. One third of the population belong to the Hui minority (yes, they are really called 'Hui') who are muslims. The silk road also used to go through Ningxia.
Ningxia was most surprising to me. They also have the Great Wall there, but it's earthern there and doesn't look like it could last for more than 20 years, but well, they built it in the Ming dynasty and it's still there. This Great Wall was just so different from the Beijing Great Wall! And the most astonishing there is the surrounding nature... they even have a 'Grand Canyon' there and the atmosphere feels like any second there could be Lucky Luke coming around the corner singing a cowboy song. Or Winnetou. Wild Wild West.
Our hotel was in the old town (our Chinese guide saying that, but old to her means from the 1980s :-)). Our driver was a Hui whom our guide considered to be 'very handsome' as she said. Just in case they ever come together and get married, she as a Han Chinese would need to convert to Hui and their religion and they would fall under the exeption of the birth control law. In China there's a law that families normally are only allowed to have one child; exeptions i.a. are minorities which are allowed to have two children per family.
Have a look at the photos to have an impression yourself...
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