Hami Hotels - Comments and Reviews

From Dunhuang we have to first hitch to a junction some 130 km north where the Gangsu-Xinjiang highway runs east to west and from there we will need to get to Xinjiang Province. The road out of Dunhuang going north is the first minor road we are taking on our trip. There are no rest stops and the one gas station we pass doesn't have any cars. Th...

June 13, 2008 I visited Jiayuguan in the morning. Here's what my Rough Guide had to say about it. "To some Chinese the very name Jiayuguan is synonymous with sorrow and ghastly remoteness. The last fortress of the Great Wall was built here by the Ming in 1372, over 5000km from the wall's easternmost point at Shanhaiguan, from which time the town...

We had a really long driving day today, but we did find time to stop in the town of Hami. Here's what one previous visitor wrote about the welcome you can expect to find: "I give you my word that if a stranger comes to a house here to seek hospitality he receives a very warm welcome. The host bids his wife do everything that the guest wishes. Th...