On our second day in Ningxia new adventures were waiting for us. In the Helanshan (Mount Helan), a very penurious mountain, we visited rock paintings which are over 2000 years in age. Back then the people who lived there painted animals, humans and human masks into the mountain caves. Amazing are the analogies in world history: human beings painted quite similar rock paintings in America, Europe and Asia. That's astonishing given the distances between the different places!Back then human beings used to be nomads, but that's just too far a way to walk...
Another highlight of the day were the Xixia Tombs. Ming and Qing Tombs in Beijing are not the slightest comparison. The Xixia Tombs just look like a huge pile of stones. The emperor of a time when China was split into different kingdoms is said to be burried there.
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