Yaou Hotel Lanzhou

... road tests in particular.<br><br>Special features: <br><br>Bluetooth and USB interface to the PC.<br><br>Housing with integrated diagnostic connecotr.<br><br>Reliable and efficient handing of diagnostic protocols in the VAS 5054A.<br><br>Power supplied by vehicle,thus saving notebook batter power during moblie operation.<br><br ...

... hungover or once or twice when I really was sick as a dog. Thankfully though the 'real' occasions only lasted twenty four hours. For those who have along with those who have never travelled to places like China, Laos or Thailand sit and imagine what it would be like to be hospitalised in such a country for reasons no body can find yet the pain you are feeling is real and so ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Shoes! Today I put on shoes! For the first time since the dreaded colds of last winter I actually put my feet into shoes. I have worn out both heel of the sandals I purchased prior to my summer adventure and they are now giving me very sore feet. I guess you could say I have two flat tyres! So today I ...

... on the bus is coughing and choking. Outside the bus the world is black and white. Grey, precisely. The apocalypse has arrived early here. Workers on the bus, going to town, all wear downturned eyes, blotched cheeks. There are no smiles, even though some have just showered and put on their Thursday best. This is not a happy place. It is impossible to open a bus window to take a photograph. The pictures would be for others. This is one sight not possible to forget. And ...

... next step! The next step was to book our train tickets out. We left the train station to head to a satellite office down the road. We arrived early and waited in line. Finally the counters opened and we moved to the front of the line. We step up and say we want to buy a ticket for Shanghai. No English. Great. The teller pretty much ignores us and we wander away a bit unsure how to proceed. As we were going to leave the room we were ...

... control at our borders, and there is wide-scale corruption at [the department of] home affairs," she told the House. An education campaign was needed to teach South Africans the difference between a refugee and an illegal immigrant. "The genuine refugees who have been displaced in Alexandra and Diepsloot must be accommodated in safe refugee camps, and the illegal immigrants must be deported immediately," De Lille said. Democratic Alliance ...

... after a power outage throughout the city again, and then waited for five minutes before the official telegram. Here it seems to rely on hydro-electricity power stations, not near the power station, Xinhua pull back from a distance, the county seat of fast development, power supply is a problem. To see a home bakery, bread delicious and cheap, on the road today are hungry enough to choke, it rains again tonight, tomorrow and ...

... as the great wall has been restored here. It's a hot dusty outpost on the great wall, and has a fort containing three large pagodas. We wander around the fort and remark on the ramps that allowed horse mounted archers to scale the walls to shoot arrows at the maurauding huns. The wall itself marks the division between the ancient China and Mongolia, however China has extended its borders somewhat, so these days its about another 300km to get to Mongolia. In Jiayuguan ...

... the beds and brown walls... I felt like I was in a teddy bear factory! It was ok though, and the showers were hot. We bought a tourist map from the hotel shop and decided to set off looking for an internet cafe to send messages home of our adventures in Inner Mongolia. After searching around for ages we found the street we were looking for, but having walked up and down several times we found nothing. Eventually I resorted to pointing at the ...