Huachen Hotel Lanzhou

... that went out beating up Uighurs on the Tuesday after the initial riots certainly fall into this category)? The government says it was a cold-blooded attempt to scare the **** out of people and derail society. If so, it succeeded. People in Urumqi are too scared to go out and everybody is hurting, from big industry to market stall owners. People of all racial groups. Terrorists succeed when they make people too scared to live normal, happy lives. When you allow fear to control your ...

... animals all signify auspiciousness in Chinese tradition. People of the same surname or family clan gather at their ancestral temples to worship their ancestors in age order. After the sacrificial ceremony, there is always a grand banquet. Consisting of, you guess it, dumplings!. Ok, the following is an article I found but lost the page so I have no idea where I got it from. I added it as it is rather amusing in a dumpling ...

... the moment we took off in the morning and reached lunch at 75km. There I added a fleece to my back pannier for the cold downhill ahead of us. After lunch we continued climbing for another 21kms till we reached the top of the pass at 3030 meters. And you know what, it was much easier than we all expected (remembering the day in Kyrgyzstan). It didn't feel like we were actually up that high but I guess we had been climbing all day which made ...

... degrees, I would rather sleep than climb stairs in the blaring sun. Nonetheless, up we went. The buddist caves are kind of cool, and we took tons of pictures. The area was worth the trip in and of itself-away from the gray city and smog, and into the green, flowering country side. We spent the day wandering through the area and headed back to louyang for dinner tonight. We ate dinner at Zhen Bu Tong Fandian and ordered a waterfall banquet ...

... stupid enough to follow my footsteps here to Jigong Shan don't go to the bus station. Instead go to the train station and look for a line of mini-vans and here you will pay only 10 Yuan for the trip. I have been told that there is a bus from the bus station but it leaves only a few times a day and is supposedly costs 80 Yuan. How true this is I have no idea. So ...

... Make sure you have the right amount - usually you don't get change. Taxi: The rate for the normal (green) taxis is ¥6 for the first two kilometers and then ¥1.5 for every additional kilometer. Waiting times longer than 2 minutes will be charged ¥1.5 per minute. After 11PM the starting price is ¥7. Additional Infos The drum and bell towers were used in ancient ...

... the families who live there though they have nothing, they don't seem to want any more than they have and that is a very simple life. I found a beautiful old temple made from earth just like most of the houses in each village. While I was walking around taking photos I heard a heap of kids talking about me but I couldn't ...

... the rock wall, watching the accumulation of structured precipice, you can see this valley over the years geological changes, rivers constantly incised valley, valley than just the formation of the current cut of about 20 to 30 meters, from top to bottom, there is soil, rock, gravel layer, sand layer, in which layers of sand accumulation level is very clear, This geological structure is very fragile and dangerous, has once ...

... some space, and hiding every time the bus passed the police. It felt as though we were escaped convicts! Still, we arrived in Zhangye uncaught, where we stayed for one night before heading out to the mountains of Mati Si. We briefly saw the beauty of this place this morning before we had to leave to catch another night bus (oh, how we love em!) - it has vast plains, snow capped mountains and an ...

Heading to Lanzhou via Tongren and Xiahe was a damned fine idea in retrospect. Gosh we're brilliant. Mainly because of the road journey as far as Xiahe, which was just fantastic scenery. It was all driving through little villages and grubby roads - so slow going, but we weren't in a hurry. It was 5 hrs to Tongren and another 4 hrs to Xiahe, just to cover maybe 300 - 350km. Every now ...