I arrived in Hohhot at midday on June 25 having met a girl on the plane. Her ex boyfriend gave me a lift to the shipping warehouse and it took me about 3 hours to get the bike roadworthy. Almost everything had been dismantled and it was a real pain in the arse. Then took the bike to the yingang shop to change the brake pads and give the brakes a service. After all that it was too late to head off as planned so I found a hotel then went off to meet some friends of the girl I’d met on the plane. Turns out they were pretty unusual guys for China, they were in a rap/metal band and were either artists or tattoo artists. We went to golden hans for a few and then back to the tattoo studio for a few more.


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I had such bad DTs this was was the steadiest photo I could take

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Mural in the tatoo studio, the guy specialised in traditional Mongolian tattoos

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You know your getting old when you've never even heard of the band's genre!