The distances between villages, what we would consider a small trip in a car, what they would consider an all day affair. By foot, by cart, by whatever means possible. When one does not have the luxuries of modern technology, or of even a horse, then they must rely on the simplest means of travel.

Being of the more lucky variety, traveling between villages was much easier for me. Scattered along the grassy plains of Western China, huts made of mud and grass, tents made of the skin of cows, and occasionally a concrete building make up towns, outposts, and villages. Many of them many kilometers away from each other, traveling between them can be a daunting affair to the inhabitants of the area.