Lizhu Hotel Lanzhou

... receive calls. He will be at the airport. A hotel has been organized. Forest areas are still safe. Other places may not be. I went to bed a lot more relieved than I had been after I got back from the internet café, but still tossed and turned for a lot of the night. This morning I am still wondering if I can justify my decision to go when I know it is scaring me, possibly terrifying my mother and inconveniencing LX. Why do I want to go? To see with my own eyes and to understand ...

Well it appears that I've finally gotten the cold/flu that our group has shared over the last couple of weeks. I was the last one to get and I fought the good fight to try and stay healthy. The aches and the cold have gotten to me. I'm sure that the Chinese invented Immodium cause holy ****, pun intended. It has been very nice here the last ...

... Noodles. Though Winter Solstice Festival used to be considered the second most important festival after Spring Festival, its importance has decreased with urbanization and growing interest in Western festivals. In attempt to stem this, the government has decided to apply for the Dragon Boat Festival to be listed by UNESCO as a piece of World Heritage, and some experts suggest giving days off for traditional Chinese ...

... es presenta amb el color gris-marro que agafen les coses abandonades a l aire brut, quan el tren la punxa seguint el riu groc, es folra de cartells de coloraines en sortir de l estacio; cartells plens de lletres i grans imatges, un mosaic atapeit que fa les fassanes d una ciutat viva. Rius multicolors solcant la lletjor objectiva. Esperant l autobus, les persones avancen el nostre proper viatge: hi ha els xinos Han i els Hui, els musulmans, els consumnistes, bandes de ...

... a paved path with plenty of stair cases. The path goes between a rocky cliff and the river, and there are literally hundreds of Buddas carved into the face of the rock. Buddist grottoes typically entail one central large budda who has one to several smaller buddassativas (spelling=??) on either side. Around them are lots of even smaller buddas carved into the rock wall backdrop. The whole setting is carved into a shallow cave, and the ...

... city buses and once again the drivers told me that this was a train station and that I needed to go back to the long distance bus station! Oh, Gee! Hadn't someone already thought of that bright idea! This time it was not back to the bus station it was off to find the nearest Tuk Tuk Driver because as crazy as they are driving those things in Chinese traffic every ...

... From the top the Bell Tower, visitors can get a bird's eye view of the surrounding areas and the building's brightly-decorated eaves. Standing in a very picturesque location on the west side of the center square of the city of Xi'an, the Drum Tower is only 150 metres away from the Bell Tower. Helpful Tips The Bell and Drum Towers are beautifully lit at night ...

... proper arrangements for the victims, as well as helping you to rebuild your homes." He encouraged the victims to be strong, overcome difficulty with confidence, courage and strength. He then went to the Beichuan Middle School, where all the teaching buildings collapsed in the quake. Knowing there were still 300 teachers and students buried in the ruins, Hu said, "Saving lives is still an urgent task. We should rescue ...

... prescriptions for coping with altitude sickness, and, of course, propagandizing on the amazing feat that is this railway (I tend to agree) and the benefits that "liberation/modernization" have brought to Tibet (uhhhhh, not so sure about that one). With regards to the railway, they have spoken fairly extensively on the environmental and engineering feats they've accomplished with regards to its construction. Must be trying to address some of the critics.

... for my travels along the old Silk Road route. Back in the Silk Road days, people would leave cities in the east, like Beijing, Xian, Xanadu and start heading west. Once they got to Lanzhou they were on the frontier of China, and once they left Lanzhou they headed up the Hexi Corridor: a geographical path of least resistance that all caravans followed. Although I was just there three years ...