Pingyau first impressions

7th July 2006, Pingyau
So I spent one more day wandering the hutong of Beijing,
come to Beijing now 'cos it'll be totally different next week,
it looks like it was last week.

Then the overnight train to Pingyao,
it was a bit spooky looking watching the big flames of the oil refinaries light up the sky, out the window at 4am.
So I arrived here just after 5am.
On the way into town you see more signs of poverty then Beijing,
people looking through rubish, a dog tied to a big rock that it could just move etc.

This town is really cool though,
the old walls are still there and the buildings are really old and well preserved without having been turned into a disney land.
Really cool.