As most of you probably heard the roads in China can be dangerous and also very congested. Specially the traffic in Beijing is really bad and they are heavily restricting people to buy new cars here. When we came back from Dong Ying the buss suddenly came to a stop. The driver looked on his GPS that there was a 15 km long que ahead of us. It turned out that a truck had caught fire some 15 km ahead of us by a toll station. I do not know the damage it caused but obviously it was enough to have the whole highway closed for 5 hours. This highway is usually a very busy road between Beijing and Tianjin. Now it was possible to stand in the middle of it and not a car in sight. The other side however was totally packed with trucks and cars. Some people were trying to turn their car around and continue the way they came fro, really smart. It only caused a worse jam between the cars that were behind us...
One of the most busy highways, completely empty!
A car trying to turn around and go in the other direction...
Everybody wondering what was going on
Stuck
People were climbing up on the trucks trying to get a glimpse of what was going on
And it happened here...
One of the first trucks passing after we had been waiting over 1 hour
After 2 hours we were finally on the move again, sunset was beautiful and not a sign of pollution here
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