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Skullcaps and Noodle Eating Notherners
Aug 11, 2006
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" Hey Hey and a big G'Day to you all Decided to head out of Xiahe today and make our way to Lanzhou the capital of Gansu. I was a bit worried about this day as Baiyan being only aro ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
eddakath
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Lanzhou
May 20, 2007
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"I couldn't believe I was back in the City where a 8 months ago, after a 6000 km, road trip across the 'Silk road', I'd sold my new motorbike for peanuts to a local guy, and here I ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
mr_rain
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Its not all gone west yet
May 19, 2006
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"Another train journey - pretty OK - but we could see standards beginning to drop as are hotels etc as we move west. Gill had fun in the loo today. At least the girls were separated ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
easties
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Lanzhou, a small town of 3 million
Aug 1, 2005
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"Leaving Dunhuang, we head out of town to the Magao caves, a complex of 1000 caves carved into an ancient riverside cliff that contain buddhist art and sculptures. The scale of the ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
rachel_john
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A study in slow bus rides and eating baozi
May 22, 2005
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"Heading to Lanzhou via Tongren and Xiahe was a damned fine idea in retrospect. Gosh we're brilliant. Mainly because of the road journey as far as Xiahe, which was just fantastic s ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
chris-marianne
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Many lucky arrivals in Lanzhou
May 18, 2007
"All roads lead back to Lanzhou. We stayed in the university guesthouse, which was pretty cool, as I finally got some semblance of internet access, and talked to some students. Stud ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
fourloves

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pot v Sichuan
Sep 12, 2008
""Wo yao pijou." In spet nisva ostala zejna na 3000 km voznji z vlakom proti jugu. In kot ponavadi glavna atrakcija na vlaku... ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
tm-360deg

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Very Big Brother on the South Silk Road
Aug 21, 2008
"The Peoples' Republic of China owes me an apology, or at very least a flight or truck ride to Golmud, in the middle of nowhere. Forget everything you have read in newspapers, on th ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
the-rambler

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International Auntie
Jun 17, 2007
"I think I forgot to mention a few things. When I was still in Turfan a Uighur boy at a table quietly said, "Fuck you" to me and kind of giggled. When it became clear that I underst ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
ninedeuce

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Lanzhou, China
Oct 23, 2008
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"DAY 139 "Crossing the pass.." - Wuwei to Tianzhu (135km) For some reason we all had been looking forward to this day strangely enough. Excited as it was a challenge to cross 3030 m ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
dutchiesdiary

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Day 64
Nov 15, 2007
"Day 64 Lanzhou, the most air-polluted city in the world Another early morning flight (my friend Anna almost killed me for booking it!) and there were we going to Lanzhou, the most ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
gbasilio

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Lanzhou
Jul 15, 2002
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"The day where nowhere will let us stay, we check our e-mails in the state education authority offices and are in the smoggiest city in the world. Our guide book had warned that bec ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
becks

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Lanzhou
May 11, 2006
"Getting to Lanzhou was cool, a mear 6 hours on a bus. When we arrived we were assulted by bad sights and bad smells - Lanzhou is the most poluted country in the world! We got off t ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
stubo

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Entering Gansu province
Sep 16, 2006
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"This region once served as an important link between ancient China and the West as an essential corridor of the famed "Silk Road." Now it's mostly quite barren and one of China's p ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
jasonfults

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Short stories, diarrhoea and love
Sep 11, 1986
"All I remember about Lanzhou is that I had my only really serious food poisoning on the whole trip. Confined to quarters, I bought a book of Chinese short stories (I forget the aut ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
kirtley

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Heading east
Jul 21, 1992
"Sharing a compartment on the train with a son and his parents. They are very nice - do not speak aword of english, but we'll communicate in another way... ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
kester

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Moving on to Lanzhou
Dec 20, 2006
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"So it seems our time is up in Xian, so we slowely move forward to Lanzhou......We take the train this evening but we have a long shopping day ahead of us to pick up provisions for ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
ladykate

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Lanzhou
Aug 10, 2007
"The railway from Lhasa has only one option to leave the Tibettan Plateau, north into Qinghai and the east towards Lanzhou and XiŽan, before it can decent into Sichuan. ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
jphil8871

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Go Yo means dog bite in chinese
Aug 3, 2006
"'Rabies? No problem, don't worry about it. I promise you, no problem!' Between this comment, and 'You were bitten by a dog? How many times?' I was starting to worry about a) the li ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
shona

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Bingling Monastery
Sep 21, 2008
"The Bingling Temple - located north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir at Yongjing (approx. 80km from Lanzhou) - is a series of grottoes filled with Bud ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
rlange

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Lanzhou.
Nov 7, 2008
"Not much to say here which is evidenced by the lack of photos we have for this place. Very much like Urumchi, though a bit smaller and with a less vibrant Uighur community. We spen ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
broncos

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Lanzhou
Sep 3, 2005
"Big indastrial city which i was doomed to come back to 3 times ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
yftahp

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Back to Civilization
Jun 10, 2008
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"June 10, 2008 I woke up at 5:45. I stretched out my poor body, which I am absolutely going to murder in the next 6 days. I was on the road by 6:30. I was o ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
throwerw

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LanZhou,China
Oct 22, 2008
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"Sky is blue. Clouds are white. Cold in the morning and night, Hot at noon. Air is dry. Soil is dry. Mother River is full of sand. BUT Beef is delicious, SO DO THE NOODLES. And peop ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
thisisthera

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Moniatos multicolors a Manhattan
Oct 21, 2008
"Dels vostres silencis s ensuma... mentre el mon s enfonsa, amb l esperanssa d un recomensar millor i la por d una cagada mes gran, seguim el nostre deambular pel llunya pel pais de ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
leiks

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lanzhou
Sep 11, 2007
"lanzhou not really much to do here. we walked around the city for the better part of the day and then caught the night train to urumqi. simliar smog cloud to the one in ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
tophergordon

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We're not in Kansas anymore
Oct 28, 2005
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"Posted by Emily: Our second train was a decidedly different experience from our first. We booked a 'hard seater' rather than a 'hard sleeper' and it was indeed harder. We sat uprig ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
3broadsabroad

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City Hopping
Jul 12, 2008
"I believe this city was voted 'Most Polluted City in the World' a few years back. They must have cleaned up some because I think Beijing has them beat. Continuing my city hopping t ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
aronulus

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Naar Lanzhou
Jul 28, 2004
"Ondanks dat Daantje ziek is geworden van het "heerlijke" Kenny Rogers voedsel staat er vandaag toch een vlucht op het programma naar Lanzhou. Het is een langgerekte plaats aan een ..."
A travel blog entry from Lanzhou by
rnas

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