Edie with He Dong Donkey.
This afternoon we took the local bus to 河东村 (He Dong Cun, East of the River). It's a little more commercialised than here, set up for tourists ascending the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall. This working donkey provided us with at least half an hour of entertainment, as we chatted to it's guardian and watched it munch on a late lunch. I discovered a hardware store selling cheap fly screens (I've been wanting one for the kitchen door since we came) and muslin, for making cakes in the rice steamer. After stocking up on green veggies and having a quick blast round the play/exercise park, we took a mian bao che (mini van, shaped like a loaf of bread, hence the name) back to He Xi Cun. That will do for today's exploring.
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