This content chronicles a couple's extensive cycling journey across North China, detailing their transition from coastal regions to the rural landscapes of Inner Mongolia, highlighting cultural observations, local interactions, and scenic discoveries.
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Ah yes, we are finally in that part of
China where you can just be in a random
village and then suddenly there is a
>> Y'all, how extra can you get? Hiring a
>> Even these villagers in a random market
in Inner Mongolia know about Charlie
Kirk. I'm Catherine from the US and this
is my husband Asadon from the farthest
west of the farthest west of China. For
the past 2 months, we've been biking
across North China. From the Russian
border in Halong Jang to the North
Korean border in Telin to the scenic
coasts of the Leaing Peninsula, we've
already covered over 1,500 km. Today, we
are finally saying goodbye to the coast
and heading to the quiet countryside of
Inner Mongolia. From weddings to funerals.
From wholesome happy moments to outright
tragedies. This is my consolation prize
to look at the confetti on the ground.
This is our journey to Inner Mongolia. [Music]
[Music]
Today's vlog begins in an obscure little
village on the outskirts of the Red
Wetland Park. We spent hours yesterday
afternoon biking for miles and miles
through its otherworldly red landscapes.
After our foray through the wetland, we
spent the night at this cute little
village in. This is our room. It is
Cristiano Ronaldo meets Log Cabin.
An aesthetic I've never seen anywhere in
the world, let alone China. But
apparently the owner of this inn's
husband loves Cristiano Ronaldo. So I
present to you Cristiano Ronaldo core
log cabin style room. It was a lovely
inn with friendly owners, interesting
local produce, and of course, the room
decor had a lot of character. We've had
a nice time in this region, but it's
time to head west, away from the
coastline, and away from the singledigit
number elevation. It's been nice to be
able to bike 100 km in a day, feeling as
though we're being carried by the breeze
because the ground is so flat. But I'm
not going to lie, I'm really looking
forward to the craggy topography we'll
[Music] [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
What do you say? [Music]
First time I've ever seen a cow with a
muzzle on. I don't think it's cuz
they're like vicious cows that are
biting people. I'm pretty sure it's cuz
By the time the morning fog lifted, we
had already reached the city of Dingo.
This place marks the final frontier of
the flat coastal landscape. Now we are
going to be heading into completely
different territory. Inner Mongolia,
>> All the rural China mascots are coming
out right now. [Music]
[Music] [Laughter]
This route we're following is not only
bringing us beautiful craggy mountain
scenery and super friendly villagers,
it's also full of cool architecture.
This beautiful specimen right here is
the Tuenshan Temple. A temple was first
built in this spot during the Han
Dynasty about 2,000 years ago, but
several rebuilds have happened over the
centuries because it's hard for anything
to last that long except the rocks
themselves. Another thing we love about
this route is that it is bringing us
more and more sheep sightings, which
means a lower ratio of pork in the local
restaurants. This is good news for
Acedon since the vast majority of
weaguers do not eat pork. And being
really.
>> The sheep in his hometown, Kashkar, are
known for having gigantic, bouncy butts,
and the sheep here don't have that, but
Turns out it's actually a play on words
because the characters for stupid and
local are super similar. Home-raised
livestock grows more slowly than
industrially farmed ones. So, it is
affectionately referred to as being
stupid, although everyone knows the
sit down.
>> Whenever you hear music like that in
rural China and then there's like a
bunch of chairs and tables set up, it's
almost always a funeral. You never know though.
[Music]
We are finally in that part of China
where you can just be in a random
village and then suddenly there is a
gigantic tower. This is Tingfong Pagota,
one of the dozens of beautiful Buddhist
structures built all around this region
during the Lao Dynasty over a thousand
years ago. Thanks to great restoration
and upkeep work, it is a magnificent
landmark on this landscape. We also saw
similar structures in the neighboring
cities of Jingo and Choyang, but I have
to say this one was definitely my
favorite. It looks so regal standing
amid all of the fields and mountains. It
really owns the landscape with no
skyscrapers around competing for
attention. A few hours later, we reach
Chyang, our last city in Leoning before
we enter Inner Mongolia. We paid a visit
to Ching Fong Pagod's brother and then
got on the road the next morning.
Unfortunately, it is another one of
those kind of days cuz what I thought
was going to be a twominute dirt road
ended up being a mud pit that led to
literally nothing. So, it's like so hot
outside. And like if it was July, then
okay. But there's something about it
being this hot in the middle of
September that just makes you angry.
This is from pushing my bike through a
muddy road for literally 30 seconds.
Literally 30 seconds. And this happened.
Today just sucks. Like I'm ready to get
to Inner Mongolia.
So now that we are on the doorstep of
Inner Mongolia, it is time to give you
my final review of the northeast three
provinces. The Tombbe Sang Halang
friendliest people. We were constantly
receiving fruit and cigarettes, which I
don't like condone smoking or something,
but it's just a way that the locals
would show their friendliness and warmth
to you is offering you a cigarette. That
was definitely a Halen Jong specialty.
We have not been offered any more
cigarettes since then. Halen Jong had
the friendliest people, I would say. But
Halen Jong had the worst infrastructure.
Come at me in the comments if you want.
I'm sorry. It's true. The roads there
were the main problem. Like if you were
on a main road like this, it was fine,
but if you went to the villages or
towns, a lot of the roads look like they
were paved when Jesus was born. So that
was kind of a negative strike for Halen
down. Other than that though, it was
lovely. Really nice scenery, rolling
hills. Dian definitely won in the
infrastructure department. Best roads,
most beautiful villages. We were only in
the Yambian region, so I don't know what
the rest of Jillian is like. But to be
fair, we did bike several hundred
kilometers through Jillian. And we're
consistently impressed with the quality
of the roads and how beautiful the
villages were, how cute they were, how
well-kemp they were. You could just
really tell there was a lot of effort
going in in Dillian to improve rural
living conditions. And the villages were
beautiful. There really wasn't anything
about Dane that we felt dissatisfied
with. And then Leoning, well, Leing gets
bonus points for being on the coast. I
really wanted coastal scenery to be a
part of this. And Leoning has been
interesting because of how much
diversity there is in this province in
terms of the quality of the
infrastructure and the natural
environment and just in general the way
that people live. It's just so different
as you go throughout the province.
There's so many different human biospheres
biospheres
coexisting in this one province. like we
have been through what feels like five
or six completely different worlds
passing from Thalian to the edge of
Inner Mongolia and we just didn't see
that kind of dramatic change in the
landscape or change in infrastructure in
the other two provinces. It's been very
interesting. Some of the most beautiful
scenery we've seen on this entire route
has been here like the cliffs in Talian
and the red wetlands in Panzian. But I
would say the top three ugliest scenery
we've seen has also been in aing. So I
guess it all evens out or whatever. But
alas, it is time to open up a new
chapter of this journey and see what is
[Music] >> Okay.
>> Naughty baby. Getting
some new subscribers today. [Laughter]
Somebody's guard dog has not gone
through training yet. You're supposed to
bark at me. You're supposed to be angry.
You're supposed to be like,
>> Coz [Music]
[Music]
This guard dog can be bought with food.
So, according to the map, we were going
to have a really long winding route over
the top of this mountain, but actually
they just built a tunnel here. Like,
this thing is fresh out of the womb.
Cars aren't even allowed in it yet, but
bikes and motor scooters can go in. Look
at this.
Brand new fresh tunnel. We are one of
the first ones to experience this
beautiful thing. [Applause]
>> The Inner Mongolia sign. Yay.
I feel very intrigued by the funeral
customs around here. So, I recognize the
house that you burn for your ancestors.
I know that one. Give your ancestors a
You really can't have it all, guys. We
were so fascinated by these horses that
we stayed and chatted with the owner for
a while and missed out on another
interesting thing. happening right down
the street. Finally arrived in the
little town we are staying at tonight. [Music]
There was just a huge wedding parade 5
minutes ago and we missed it. We missed
it. I usually have such good luck when
it comes to running into this kind of
stuff, but it ran out today. I'm so
devastated right now. Will you look at
all the scraps? This must have been like
the most exciting thing ever. I remember
a few minutes ago seeing explosions in
the distance being like, "Oh yeah, there
must be like a wedding or funeral or
something." But I didn't know it was
like this big of a shindig and we missed it.
She's like, "Take a picture with my baby."
baby." [Laughter]
[Laughter]
>> Bye-bye. [Music]
[Music]
This is my consolation prize
to look at the confetti on the ground.
Ironically, the hotel we booked for that
night was literally right outside the
carnage from the parade, taunting us all
night and into the next day about our
failure to record this fascinating
community ceremony. But at least we did
y'all. How extra can you get? They hired
a crane for their wedding so they could
have a longer firecracker string. Love
that. It is believed that the loud noise
of firecrackers scares evil spirits
away. So, they are brought out at all
sorts of events from weddings to
funerals to holidays to opening a new
business. Literally anything that an
evil spirit could potentially ruin, roll
out the firecrackers. And for something
as important as a wedding, well, that
It's gone ran all the way over there.
That's right. The festivities are still
continuing. We managed to encounter the
groom and wish him a happy wedding. And
he even invited us to join the lunch
instead of showing our wedding pictures
to a new friend we met at the banquet.
>> It was so nice of the bride and groom to
invite two completely random strangers
to their banquet and we wish them a
happy future together. But I'd be lying
if I said I still wasn't sad about
missing the parade because I love
wedding parades. Ace done and I had one
at our wedding, too. And I just think
they're so wholesome and so cute. Maybe
we'll be lucky enough to stumble into
another one at some point. We have
thousands of kilometers left on this
bike tour after all. We are living that
small town life today.
There are ducks in the middle of the
try.
with an interesting addition that I've
never seen before. This
We got some rice noodles.
Bean sprouts, lotus root, and my
favorite of all, broccoli. Load up that
broccoli. I can't resist. I got to try
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The inside of it is hollow. It's squishy
and it absorbs the flavor of the thing
you put it in.
>> The children are fighting.
>> One of them's like, "I get better grades
than you." And the other one's like,
"I'm better at PE than you." And the
other one's like, "Well, my family's
rich." And then the argument dies immediately.
The kids ask why he's so hairy and he's
>> We are on our way to the milk tea shop.
There is a milk tea shop in this tiny
Oh my gosh. I was like, "Wow, a kid
being friendly to a bug. That's so
wholesome." And then he's like, "Smash."
Seriously, all these mushrooms are everywhere.
everywhere.
>> Last activity of the evening. We're in
the grocery store to print out a group
photo of us with the boys because they
forgot their phone. So, the photos on my
phone, but they want to keep it forever
and ever and remember this beautiful
moment. So, just sitting here waiting
for our photos to print on the Gucci stool.
We have encounters with friendly kids
pretty often, but this was the first
time that they went through so much
trouble to keep a memory of the moment.
And I think that is so adorable.
>> Time to say goodbye to our local tour
guides. Sad moment.
>> See you.
>> Bye-bye. Bye-bye. >> Bye-bye.
>> Bye-bye. >> Bye-bye.
>> Bye-bye.
>> Night life is pretty quiet around here.
Maybe it's because summer breaks over.
Maybe it's because the weather's colder.
Maybe this place is just quiet in
general. But no matter how quiet the
town, you can almost always find a
dancing grandma brigade. and sometimes
The only trace of human civilization
we've seen in the past hour. This fast
food restaurant opened here on the side
of the road for the occasional truck
[Applause]
This is the ultimate rural China fall
aesthetic. Now that autumn is coming, it
is time to harvest the things that spent
all spring and summer growing. Around
every corner are mushrooms and grains
drying. Basketball courts, roads,
driveways, all sorts of flat spaces are
being used to sort grains back and
forth. It feels like being surrounded by
a bunch of those sand rake zen garden things.
Y'all, even these villagers in a random
market in Inner Mongolia know about
Charlie Kirk. I don't know. I guess I'm
kind of honored that in over 200
countries in this world, the one that
I'm from is the one that people are so
captivated by. The potential
conversation topics are never ending.
Anyway, now it's time to head to the
city of Chufang, the last city we'll be
staying in for the next three weeks. As
the final chapter of today's vlog, I
present to you Chuang Nightife. [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
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[Music] [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
Look, I know I am not the target
audience of these patriotic songs, but
I'd be lying if I said they are not a jam.
In the next vlog, we'll be departing
from this bustling city and heading
towards the forests and grasslands of
Inner Mongolia, as well as the
neighboring province of Kab. I'm so
excited to share our upcoming journey
with you in the next vlog. Not just the
beautiful scenery, but also the
continued encounters with friendly
locals. Chatting with strangers helps
keep this journey even more interesting,
and we are grateful to everyone who
takes the time out of their day to talk
to us, even if they say something weird.
Thanks everyone for joining us on our
journey to Inner Mongolia. But we love
sharing all these random little unseen
corners of rural China with you. And
even more are coming up in the next
video. So make sure to subscribe so you
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