On our second weekend off, Drew and I decided to check out one of Yinchuan's tourist attractions, Sand Lake (Shahu). It's supposed to be a really great place for bird watching? Not really my thing, but when we looked it up it appeared that they had camel riding and dune sliding too so why not?

We actually didn't end up doing either of those things. We ended up looking for the swimming area when we got there because it was hot and we (read: I) wanted to swim. We had to walk to the complete opposite side of the park from the entrance to find the swimming area (and if China does anything well, it is making huge parks so it took forever). When we finally got there, it wasn't that great and Drew kept on getting hassled by minnows, but at least we escaped the heat for a bit.

Oh we also finally tried the local watermelon. It was hyped up to be the best watermelon in all of China by the operator we worked with. I'm not sure about the best watermelon, but it was pretty good. I managed to catch Drew's Sri Lankan Nair situation on camera too haha.

We did a round of ATV riding and parasailing after the watermelon snack (meal? it was a lot of watermelon). I'd have more pictures, but Drew hasn't sent me any from his phone yet >:( So here's and album of just pictures of Drew.

Anyway, at the end we got the most amazing picture from this park. They photoshopped us onto a boat, they photoshopped the boat onto the lake, the photoshopped the birds flying in the photo. Just A+. Wonderful.

until next time,

sc

yinchuan pt 2