Zhanyou Hotel Lanzhou

... else, Xinjiang's tourism industry totally needs my money! From Lanzhou airport later that day... The flight from Jiayuguan was delayed, which made me think I was going to have another Chengdu on my hands. I raced to the baggage claim, waited for ages, collected my luggage, rushed upstairs to departures (thank god most Chinese airports are pretty much the same design) then gazed patiently at the flight board, waiting for my flight number and check-in counter to miraculously ...

... a gastronomic ambassador across China's regions, ethnic groups and even religions. In the far northwest, Muslim Uighurs wolf down mutton dumplings as enthusiastically as Cantonese gulp open-topped shumai in the southeast and Shanghainese savor soup dumplings - elegantly twisted morsels full of pork, flaked crab meat and scalding liquid known as "little dragon buns." "When you think about it, it's the perfect food," says ...

... use the breaks to avoid being thrown off the bike, shame. The trees started to loose their leaves, almost looked like winter was upon us and the temperature was confirming that. We continued downhill till we reached the town of Tianzhu...overall a fabulous day, even my 10th flat tire of the trip wasn't able to change my mood and the 11th flat!!!!, which happened straight in front of the hotel. Just when I said I made it a huge bang came from ...

I and the Taiwanese girl (who I met on-line) went to Suzhou and famous water town to spend a night. It was amazing experience to stay in the old town like that. Suzhou is famous for their gardens. So we went to one the most famous and biggest Chinese gardens. I wasn't too exciting about that, cos I have no special interest in gardens, just wanted to take a look since it is just an hour away from Shanghai. It started raining after we entered the ...

... the ticket is dated and can either be used only that day or you have to purchase a one, two or three day ticket. We all got out at the Visitor Center near the Meling Ballroom were I then grabbed a cab and we went to several of the closest hotels that all wanted between 250 and 400 Yuan for one night! Have they gone mad! Are they freaking insane! Do people really ...

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... in front of questioning, the original construction discussed down, worried that will cause the shock wave blasting rock near collapse, causing more landslides, and finally they decided to use forklifts and human Prizing will be pushed outside of a few pieces of rock under the river, reinforcing the Highway lateral reluctantly allows cars unilateral passage, Qualcomm End car later to remove the largest piece of rock. All the ...

'Rabies? No problem, don't worry about it. I promise you, no problem!' Between this comment, and 'You were bitten by a dog? How many times?' I was starting to worry about a) the likelihood of getting any treatment for rabies in China, and b) the nature of the dogs that live around Langmusi. I was bitten once in the leg, by a tiny yappy dog, barely a foot high, that looked undeniably cute, and was most definitely someone's pet. Unfortunately, the beastie drew blood, which means I need to get ...

... through quite a high pass, so most of the journey consisted of the bus skidding and slipping its way through foot-deep snow. And it's supposedly late spring here, so God knows how bad it is here in the winter. Interesting mix of people too. We passed through a lot of Tibetan villages - the inhabitants seeming to live mainly off grazing yak and mountain goats (even saw the odd sheep ...