Commerc Hotel Lanzhou
No.383 Baiyin Road, Chengguan District Lanzhou, Gansu, 730030, China
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Happy New Year
A bit late for those at home, but we're still between new years here where New Year/Spring Festival preparations are well under way. In fact on Boxing Day, the Christmas decorations began coming down around town (much to the dismay of the Russian teacher who celebrates Christmas on Jan 7th) to be replaced by lanterns, banners and other decorations for the upcoming year of the dragon. In the few weeks immediately before Christmas, many shops, restaurants and businesses put ...
Scenic Detour
... tree covered mountains became more rugged. Small pockets of autumn colors were just beginning. Several times, pheasants flew up right in front of our bus. The further west we drove communities along the highway had lots of mosques.
We passed through areas with orchards of beautifully large pink and yellow apples. Fruit stands laden with the fruit lined the roads. We would have loved to stop and buy some fresh off the tree. ...
Lanzhou -- the eagle is flying again
... br> We even spot some cave dwellings carved into the side of the hard-packed dirt hills. They were lived in long ago. Today they are only used for shelter from the storms, wind and sun.
The short 70-km drive in to the city from the airport takes over an hour even on the new highway. We wind our way through the low brown hills, then higher mountains until we reach the Lanzhou plateau and start to follow the Yellow River. It should really ...
National Day comes around
... all the various blackboards around the school grounds in preparation for National Day and I've included a few pictures to give you an idea of the detail they put into their artwork.
I wont be travelling anywhere for the 5 days - it is virtually impossible to get transport to major areas as so many people are trying to get home/move around. Some of our group are meeting up in ...


