Gansu International Hotel Lanzhou

... all was good. After a bit of that and the chinese men staring unimpressed in our direction (getting the attention of the girls see :) for all the right reasons i'm sure....) we headed out to a different more of a pubby club as opposed to a club and ended up watching the Man united game! scumbags! anyway...soon after ray introduced us to a couple of chinese ladies whos english was err well better than my cantonese...and i actually got on quite well with one of them and got a kiss and a ...

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... white stupas on a leveled-off section of the hillside before arriving at one of the holiest cave retreats in the 'U' province. Many Buddhists of note have come here to meditate (eg Guru Rinpoche, Atisha, Songsten Gampo etc). There used to be the Yerpa Drubde Monastery located on the hill below the caves, but was destroyed in '59 and chapels deemed 'unauthorized' still continue to be destroyed here (as recently as '98). It was so interesting, as the monks are ...

... that will come across dream like! After the performance I said my good byes to everyone and headed out for a walk about town. The city was a thrive of activity and the vibe was almost electric. Families were racing around with pre-decorated trees purchasing anything that flashed and glittered and if that couldn't be found then it only had to reflect light. Children of all ages (including myself at one stage ...

... and long yellow grasslands of the local topography. Some of the mosques were an odd mixture of traditional Chinese architecture, similar to the styles in the Forbidden City and Middle Eastern style. These had thin, many-storied pagodas serving as their minarets, while others were more exotic, featuring slim minarets adorned with golden balls. In the towns and villages we passed most of the men wore white crocheted caps. Women seemed to have three ...

... relaxed pace. Though I have seen much of what Xian has to offer there is so much more that I haven't seen and both Luo Wei and I will be using any time possible to see many of these over the next year. Beers N Noodles toya.....shane _______________________________________ __________________ The soundtrack to this entry was by Live The album was 'Throwing Copper' _______________________________________ ___________________

... very good, and you bargain long and hard, and if you are lucky and catch your interlocutor on an off day, you may, just may, receive the special price. Consider yourself fortunate. 3. Travelers are often told to get off the beaten path, to take the road less traveled, to march to a different drum. You don't need to do this in China. The road well-traveled is a very fine road. The French Concession in Shanghai is splendid. The Forbidden City is a wonder of the world. So too the ...

... Chongqing and Shaanxi has been restored to normal levels. But power was still out in the worst-hit Beichuan, Maoxian and Wolong counties, the information office said. Till on Tuesday, 7,000 aftershocks were felt after last Monday's magnitude-8 quake. A forecast of a strong aftershock in Sichuan province late on Monday prompted panic among the local residents as well as in the neighboring Chongqing municipality and Guizhou ...

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 from the boys but we could hear the party going on next door. It seems that they were herded into doorless knee high (Gill's as opposed to Chinese hip height) cattle stalls and they could all see each other's top half while and giggled away while squatting over the appropriate ...

... the risk of having to ask or bribe the bus driver to stop for emergency relief. No breakfast, DP takes a "stopper", and MP out to buy drinks and some bananas for the trip, while DP negotiates the deposit return. Find the bus and get reasonably good seats up near the front of the bus. In these buses, this is important as the windows are fixed and heavily tinted, to say nothing of dirty. The glass is so dark, the usual good photos out of the windows are not ...