Huachen Hotel Lanzhou
No.469 Tianshui South Road, Chengguan District Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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... 8211; once.
I found boxes of decaf sachets in the supermarket - the ones with whitener and sweetener added. I just bought one to see how they were. I discovered I could strain the milk powder and sugar out with the tea strainer and add my own milk – then they tasted quite good. They’re long gone now too. Alas when I went back to the supermarket they didn’t have any left. Now I duck into any supermarket I pass just in ...
Tibet (in all but name)!!!
... from the local store and once the owners realised that I was a foreigner they immediately threw in some freebies with my purchase and in the evening I went back to the same store to buy some more things and he offered to share his dinner with me, so sweet!
Later on, on my way to dinner I saw 4 travellers who looked like they could do with some help as they struggled to communicate with the driver and I could see that the driver couldn't understand them, so with ...
Xiahe and Labrang Si Monastery
... round white hats tending flocks of sheep and goats.
The steep hills are terraced all the way down to a dry river bed miles below and men are plowing under the stubble from the just harvested crops into the sandy brown earth. Some are using donkeys, some are pulling the plows themselves. It's time to put the fields to bed.
The road is occasionally blocked by convoys of those funny three-wheeled tractor carts seen everywhere in China. They're loaded high ...
Lanzhou Story
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Yellow Buddhas
... visit. Intimate little grottos carved into the cliff containing carved Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and paintings. The oldest from the 5th Century, with most around 1,000 years old. Apparently wealthy merchants plying the Silk Route used to stop by and sponsor grottoes, with the expectation of a better afterlife. The largest, a Future Buddha was some 27m high, but unfortunately covered in scaffolding at the time of our visit. Also walked up through the gorge to a ...


