Dianli Hotel
Travel Blogs from Wuwei
We beginnen nu pas echt
... een paar kilometer passeren we een grote stoffige cementfabriek en wordt het duidelijk waarom de hele omgeving zo troosteloos stoffig en grijs is. De weg wordt nu wat beter maar ook steiler en meer bochten. Na een kilometer of tien komen we aan een stuwdam met bijbehorend meer. Hier en daar zijn we wat afslagen tegen gekomen, maar geen bord te bekennen, dus waar mogelijk maar eens vragen, met wisselend succes vanwege het dialect. Hier en daar wordt ...
Day 6 - July 1st Glacier, Qilian Mountain
We went up to the glaciers at 4000+ m today... by 2hr train and 1.5hr bus to 3800m, then hiking our way up!
The wilderness was beautiful up there, but it was freezing cold with strong winds, and altitude sickness coming into attack!
We endured only a few km here during our 3.5 hours up on the mountains... but it was a special break from the desert scenery we have experienced in the past few days!
Across the mountains is Qinghai province...
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Magao Caves
Visited the amazing Magao Caves – one of the greatest collection of Buddhist artworks anywhere in the world – a world heritage site. Wealthy traders and officials were the primary donors and use to call by Magao to pray for safe passage before venturing across the deserts to the west. They were carved and painted between the fourth and fourteenth centuries AD, with the site home to many monks and nuns and monasteries. The caves ...
Gobi Desert Sand Storm
... right down to only 10 metres at times. We continued slowly and cautiously. However, we eventually came to a grinding halt, as traffic had banked up. An accident? – after a very uncomfortable hour's wait in the sand storm (in sauna like conditions – middle of hot desert, unable to open windows, no air conditioning) we found it was just a tollgate that had caused the traffic to jam up. Arrived mid-afternoon in Dunhuang, with the sand storm having ...
Jiayuguan Great Wall and Fort
... handsome beast – well groomed, very clean, and mostly well behaved. We finished our visit with a brief walkthrough of the museum which contained weaponry, artefacts and detail of the history of the Fort and western section of the Great Wall.
A delightful free afternoon relaxing at our campsite amongst the trees and fishing pond below the section of the Great Wall we slept on the previous ...
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