Commerc Hotel Lanzhou

... By the second day i was getting the hang of moving around a bit more, the general rule is if you see a bypass go up it don't try and be clever...<br>This travelling alone thing really does work....you just seem to get so much done in such a short space of time and can cover real distance, and just start chatting to people. It's a good crack and i'm sure i'll get better at it as i go along. So after my 6/7 hr wander around hongkong (in the rain i might add...its very muggy and quite ...

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... butter candles and bowls of holy water everywhere. There's a Chapel of Jampa with 2 large images of the Future Buddha and 8 bodhisattvas and an assembly hall with 16 arhats and 2 really big statues of Tsongkhapa. Incredibly, in a higher inner room, pilgrims get 'dopped' with a Gelugpa yellow hat (of the Tsongkhapa &amp; DL order), as they go thro' the Golden Throne Room that contains Tsongkhapa's throne. Finally, we saw the living areas of the Ganden Tripa ...

... were the schools leaders who wanted to present me with my Christmas present. And so came my strange present. I was handed a waist high pre-decorated Christmas tree. I know it doesn't sound strange like maybe a box of lego. Or maybe even porn flick or two from your girlfriend's mother. But isn't it beneath a Christmas tree where your presents are supposed to go? Aren't you generally supposed to buy the tree yourself ...

We're in a beautiful place. In less than an hour we've come from the lush Yellow River valley edged by arid red mountains up to a wet, misty green forest. Fir trees drip on us as we take the concrete stairs up-the Chinese version of a hiking path. A few red and yellow-topped trees intersperse the dark green of the firs; autumn has arrived on the mountain though the Yellow River valley below still feels like the last of summer. The hike is short, less ...

... City Wall has been restored three times. In 1568, Zhang Zhi (the government officer of that period) was in charge to rebuild the wall with bricks. In 1781, another officer, Bi Yuan, refitted the city wall and the gate towers. More recently (since 1983) the Shaanxi Provincial Government restored the city wall again. A circular park has been built along the high wall and the deep moat. The thriving ...

Found this on Amazon.com and thought I would repost it: Maarten Troost's Travel Tips for China 1. Food can be classified as meat, poultry, grain, fish, fruit, vegetable and Chinese. Embrace the Chinese. If you love it, it will love you back. True, you may find yourself perplexed by what resides on your plate. You may even be appalled. The Chinese have an expression: We eat everything with four legs except the table, and anything with two legs except the person. They mean it too. And ...

... on telling me that "you are very lucky. Today the weather is fine and you can see everything very clearly. Just last week, it was snowy and the travellers saw nothing." It was indeed as she had said. The bright white mountain stood in front of us under the blue sky. It was as vivid as a postcard. That night we slept in a hut. In the third morning, we got up very early to see the sunrise. The sunlight reddens the snow ...

... your noodles BUT the noodles come out and the water is almost blood red just like your tongue after a few mouth fulls. I live on what is known as Yangzhuo Fried Rice which is kind of like the fried rice back home. It has mixed veggies, egg and some meats. Awesome and no chilli! We found and we filled ourselves before then heading down the road for a relaxing massage and haircut. So far Lanzhou seemed to be a ...

... 30 Yuan each. We are allowed to climb the stairs to the roof level of the mosque, and get some good photos of the minaret, the ancient ruin nearby, and the additional structures, gardens, pavilions and fences the Chinese have felt necessary to "beautify" the site. Back at the Traffic Hotel about 8pm, we shower and go to ground before heading out to find John's Information Cafe. We are adopted by a group of young Hong Kong students on summer holiday, also going ...