Agriculture Hotel Lanzhou

... Most of it was kind of like a jungle but with the odd 'estate'. The ground floor flat was really nice (if small) inside. But they still had a 20mb internet connection and flat screen tv etc so it was quite weird. It was like anti-poverty. I was glad of all those jabs (rabies) i had after all...So there i was in this flat with nobody that spoke english except the girl and i was trying my best not to be a burden (seen as it was her birthday) but failed pretty miserably. So while they ...

Byli jsme upozorneni, ze se malo zminujeme o jedne ze zajimavych stranek cinske kultury. Zatimco o toaletach jsme toho jiz napsali mnoho o cinske kuchyni jsme se zatim prilis nezminovali. <br><br>Tak tedy, prvni vstup na prani - Cinske kulinarske umeni<br><br>1) Proces vyberu<br><br>Vyber jidla probiha ruzne. Zalezi dost na forme menu. Tam kde maji menu v anglictine a jeste s fotkami si neuzijeme moc zabavy. Spise se stava, ze v techto podnicich je jidlo horsi nez ocekavane, hlavne ...

... extortionate amounts for vehicles to stop and take photos of the magnificent views. Despite our local guide saying we would stop further on over the Pass, 'government officials' ran down to our stopping point to argue for fee payment. The views were amazing, as the Yandrok-Tso turquoise lake lies several hundred metres below, with Mt Nojin Kangtsang (7,191m) nearby. Altho' stunning and one of Tibet's holiest lakes, it's a source of much controversy. The Chinese have ...

... ______ The soundtrack to this entry was by George Thorogood The album was the 'George Thorogood - Anthology' _______________________________________ ______ The Origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas". To most people it's a strange yet delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But supposedly it had a quite serious ...

... of prayer flags printed with the image of Sakaymuni sitting crosslegged. I don't know if the others are Buddhist or Muslim. At first I think they might be wild silkworm cocoons, because they are little bundles of fine, white gossamer. But then Dan notices some tied onto the branches instead of hanging naturally and we suppose that they must have been tied there as some sort of religious supplication. We take pictures of what we can see of the ...

... incomprehensible shouting, I signalled her to tell a waiting Taxi driver where to take me. In the event there was another bus station just 5 minutes walk up the street and I found Ian there waiting for his bus. Five minutes later the Hong Kong guy showed up in a taxi from his Chinese nationals only hotel. He helped us buy our tickets, mine for Dunhuang cost 97Y. Ten minutes later and our bus was ready to depart and amidst tearful handshakes, I said ...

... had one of these in operation for a while, a 30 km line from a European consortium, but this newest train is made in China, 120 kilometers long. It's highest speed during the test was 394 kilometers an hour, about 260 mph. Those are for show, of course. Most Chinese have no motorized transport. China has about 15 million private vehicles, 1.2 private cars per 100 persons, compared to the US with 175 million cars ...

... Brave and Strong, Wenchuan!" with some waving the national flags. Wenchuan county was the epicenter of the 8.0-magnitude quake. Chinese bourses and commodities exchanges also suspended trading for three minutes in remembrance of the earthquake dead. The three-minute remembrance is part of three-day national mourning for those who died in the killer earthquake. The State Council, the Cabinet, on Sunday ordered flags to be flown at half-mast and all public ...

... he thought that was a bad development. I thought the guy looked alright, but the driver said he was so hard to look at that he nearly died as a result of the experience. Melodramatic. I got some massages here in Lanzhou, mainly because there is ****ing NOTHING to do here. The first one was Thai massage (not the happy ending kind, the real kind, which rules) and this tiny Chinese girl stretched me around and beat me up a little. The funny ...

... and she asks what price range we are talking, and we indicate 100 to 200. When we get off the bus, she greets her family, then tells them to wait, and she will sort us out. Takes us through the terminal and right to an imposing 14-storey hotel. Lots of clocks, uniformed door-persons, woman in chic suit behind the desk, list of high denomination room rates on the wall. The rack rate is 380, ambit claim is 268, but our lady gets it for us for 238, which is ...