Here are some stills from Inner Mongolia. We are about 800 to 900 km East of Beijing. It's in the South West corner of Inner Mongolia. Ordos is the city where we stayed, but we drove in to the desert to get some element for the Cashmere Goat story that I will post once it has run.
The new member of our team here in Beijing is Fan Di. She has taken the job of our bureau producer. You may remember Qi, well he left us for a job at Global Times as a reporter. He will be missed, but Fan Di is a great addition for us as she has worked for Aljazzera TV and for the McClatchy Paper Group, so she comes with a lot of experience.
For the Goat story Ben and I wound up chasing, or herding the goats for the most part of an hour to get one On Camera. Oh and it was also in the middle of a snow storm.
Was still nice to get out and on the road for a few days. They other adventure was that the Hotel we had booked into didn't take foreigners. Seems they would get in trouble if they got caught renting to rooms to anyone but Chinese. We did stay one night with them but we where quickly forced to move to another hotel. Kind of odd but it's China so nothing should strike me as strange anymore.
The older women in the photo is a former herder. She now pens her goats and lives more or less right beside them. We where the first foreigners she had ever met. She was also the first goat keeper I'd ever met so there you go.
My thanks to Fan Di for the pictures that appear in part of this post!
