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Xinhua Hotel Lanzhou

No.68 Anning East Road, Anning District Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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Things I miss

A travel blog entry by avenel

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Nice crusty bread. The bread here tends to be very light and sweet - even the savoury variety.

Apart from these, there’s not really much else to miss. A large part of the reason for coming here was to do something different. It’s great to come away and leave a lot of “baggage” behind. It’s a good opportunity to step out of our own culture and look at it from the outside. It keeps everything in perspective. ...

Tibet (in all but name)!!!

A travel blog entry by lisannelee

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... to do and wanting to practise my Mandarin, I went over to help them and the driver commented on my excellent English, pity no one ever in China comments on my excellent Mandarin lol. Afterwards, the travellers invited me to dine with them and we went together to the local place that I usually eat at and I helped them to order and they were so surprised that I could order with such ease without knowing how to say many of the food words and just pointing to my sheet of ...

Xiahe and Labrang Si Monastery

A travel blog entry by danandcarolann

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... on their way to the nearest big "city". And the roadside is lined with piles and piles of them. As we drive along behind the carts, potatoes fall off the cart and pelt our car like brown snowballs until we honk and dart around them, narrowly missing heavily laden donkey carts coming out of dirty little side lanes.

Our driver has to slow frequently as women in black veils throw grain and corn stalks right in our path. They're using cars to soften up the thresh ...

Lanzhou and the Dirty Thirty

A travel blog entry by brianpbrady

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I've had an annoying sinus drip for about three weeks. Perhaps as a parting gift, my students got together and decided to share their germs. It was irritated by the cold weather, and altitude of Tibet, and has been a nuisance since then. On returning to a lower altitude and warmer climate, I welcomed the chance to recover. But, the air quality in industrial China is terrible. It seems I am more likely to contract asthma than I ...

Yellow Buddhas

A travel blog entry by serialtraveler

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... monastery. The ochre red cliffs, dry creek bed and sparse vegetation reminded me very much of Central Australia.

In the afternoon my cook group did its first shopping exhibition to the local markets. It was an enjoyable experience, with great smells and colours. Tomorrow night we bush camp, and our team of four – Kerry, Marlene, Roger and myself - will cook for nineteen. First cab off the rank – better set a good standard for the other groups to ...

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