Hong Run Da Hotel Lanzhou

... sleep. so i didn't. Now during said trip for the water i thought about ringing this girl (it happened to be her birthday) cos hell at the very least i'd have myself a local tour guide :). So off i went to the nearest phonebooth, rang her and arranged to meet in Tai Po which is pretty much her end of town. So off i went to Tai Wo...thats right..Wo...(the other side of hong kong island) rang her and she said she'd come meet me but of course it was the wrong damn place....so off i went ...

Shangrila Thursday 6/8/09.<br><br>Early morning start after a very good breakfast, the local bacon was excellent, to try and beat the hordes to the Pu Dacuo national park. How wrong we were when we arrived at the starting point, I must point out the facilities provides by the park service is fantastic, we were group 41 of at that time 121 and most consisted of at least 30 people. So you can imagine the wait 2hrs ...

... Cave and Tendrel Drubpuk, while the Jamkhang contained a 2-storey sized Jampa, along with other deities. The Drubthuk-puk cave had a black curtain of yak hair, while the Lhalung-puk was where monk Lhalung-puk spent time after killing the anti-Buddhist king in 842. Guru Rinpoche spent an alleged 7 years meditating in Dawa-puk, where a covered Ekajati rock deity is only revealed during Losar (Tibetan New Year) and GR footprints in stone can be seen. Chogyal-puk has a ...

... t any heating. Finally when the heating arrived I rose to spend the rest of the day on my computer chatting to friends from here, there and everywhere on MSN, QQ and Skype. Such a sociable little bugger I can be at times! I spent Christmas night out on the town walking around again and took myself out for Chicken Burgers for my Christmas Dinner. When it comes to Christmas I'm not afraid to spend that little bit extra ...

... to ask a woman the difference. She understood my question, but as often happens to me in Chinese, I couldn't understand the answer. Usually one of the highlights of any trip we take is the new kinds of food we experience. Well, this trip we were traveling just at the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when devout believers fast during the daytime. We were told by an English-speaking man on a bus that the food in the evening was spectacular ...

... You are my first foreign teacher, I very like you. You make me learn a lot of things. I want to say thanks for you. When you left that evening, I cried the whole day, Thank you give me finally hug. I always look at photos, I think you're very handsome! And you? Thanks for you helping me. YOU ARE THE BEST ENGLISH TEACHER! I will never forget you! You left that those words my mother will never understand. "Remember happiness is the most important thing in our ...

... tundra of Heilongjiang Province, China offers a vast kaleidoscope of people and terrain unlike anywhere else on Earth. This may seem intimidating to the China traveler. Will there be picture menus in the Taklamakan Desert? (No.) Is Visa accepted in Inner Mongolia? (Not likely.) Still, one should move beyond the Great Wall. And if you can manage to cross six lanes of traffic in Beijing, you can manage the slow train to Kunming. 4. Hell is a line in China. You are so forewarned. 5 ...

... aftershocks have jolted Wenchuan since last Monday's devastating quake. Nearly 9,000 people in a quake zone were evacuated on Tuesday for fear that huge cracks on a mountain could lead to further disaster. Many crevices, measuring up to 1.5 km long and 50 cm wide, have been spotted on Shiziliang Mountain in the Qingchuan county seat, Guangyuan city, threatening about 50,000 people and rescuers. Part of the mountain has ...

... being knocked off her bicycle right in front of the coach in Beijing - Chop Chop explained that there were so many people in china that very rarely there was a traffic accident. After telling us to close our eyes she carried on trying to justify the fact that we had witnessed an exceedingly rare event and we smelt propaganda - we were right because we have seen three other accidents in the last three days. We also have to visit government shops and now ...

... s trip. There must have been a dust storm during the night, as there is very little visibility, although it has had the very welcome effect of reducing the temperature enormously. As we pass the Flaming Mountain, we can just see the camels, with the mountains only a vague shadow behind. At least we did see them smoulder, if not flame. We had our first comfort stop shortly after, but a bit soon for pre-emptive toileting, then carried on through a passage in the ...