Helan Mountain Rock Paintings

A Week in the Northwest

This six day trip through Ningxia and Gansu with my wife covered ancient royal tombs, a movie studio backlot, thousand year old mountain carvings, a grassland bonfire, a desert by the Yellow River, and a stone forest of wind carved pillars. We tried sand sliding and a river zip line, ate a lot of lamb and noodles, and spent most of the time laughing at our own clumsy moments.