spending the night in an ex AK47 factory

[ensho]

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After a superb late lunch (washed down with Wutzala's home made hooch) in a small one donkey town reminiscent of the Wild West, we trotted on to our hotel for the night. This transpired to be a deserted ex AK47 factory (!) with abandoned Soviet style residential blocks set round a small lake hidden away in the forested hills. To my amazement, the horses were led through a couple of little doors into a huge empty auditorium which was to be their quarters for the night. Once a hall for Chinese dignitaries, now a stable for foreign devils.

We stayed in the ancient 1950s hotel which no doubt once housed visiting Russian weapons experts - it had seen better days, and although it had wood panelling, hot shower tanks, TVs and Western bathrooms, the only things that worked were the flush loo. Even the bedside lights had no bulbs. We stayed in solitary splendour on the top floor, and discovered in the morning that we were locked in until the caretaker arrived! It would have made an excellent location for a zombie movie.

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AK47s seem to be everywhere in one form or the other.


there is a pic of the horses in front of the huge stage that looked to be a beautiful place in its time.

(can't get pic to copy)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Wow.

They had AK-47s in Russia too?

[ContinentalOp]

2. Um...

joking right?

[ensho]

3. are you trying to be humorous?

about a serious issue.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. I'm terribly sorry.

I didn't mean to make light of the very serious issue of backpacking equestrians.

[DS1]

5. What the fuck is serious about this?

[underpants]

6. Love this whole expedition

:applause:

[jmg257]

7. Ex-Ak-47 factories? In Russia? No kidding! Hmm..wonder if there are any Ak-74 factories there too!

How 'bout SKS factories???

Since they invented them, and produced millions - they must have come from somwhere!

Bet they find a few in China too.

[ensho]

8. China, this is China -

nt

[jmg257]

10. Ahh - that makes sense too. AK-47 or T56 - China made millions also.

"The Type 56 assault rifle is a Chinese copy of the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, which has been manufactured since 1956. It was produced by state factory 66 from 1956-73, then by Norinco from 1973 onwards. Originally, the Type 56 was a direct copy of the AK-47, and featured a milled receiver, but starting in the mid-1960s, the guns were manufactured with stamped receivers much like the Soviet AKM."


"While exact production figures are not known, it is commonly estimated that as many as 10-15 million Type 56 rifles have been produced since the 1950s "

[NeedleCast]

9. Most AK-47s aren't AK-47s

They're knock offs from a dozen countries. Line em all up and you can build a bridge from El Paso, Texas to the other side of the state.