Seems like I am always going to places that no one in their right mind would go. It takes three airplanes and 26 hours of continuous travel time to get to Shanxi, China, right on the border of Inner Mongolia.

That’s just one reason why nobody goes there.

This is one of China’s poorest provinces and is nicknamed the “coal warehouse of China.”  It has some of the worst air pollution in the entire world.

The sky is a grey haze that never changes. You could never see the sun just a very faint yellow circle in the sky, trapped behind a heavy blanket of smog.  The sky looked as dreary and bleak as the terrain. If emphysema ever became a town, this would be it.

 

Inner Mongolia: Shanxi