Home Inn (Lanzhou Qingyang)

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We spent a day wandering around the city of Schijiazhuang. The weather was a bit warmer than I had left in Maine and I was quite warm and ended up carrying my jacket. My native/local friend wore hers. We went in and out of shops and what she called "supermarkets" - which were like high rise shopping malls to me. We ate at a small restaurant ...

... stuff you find on all footpaths (not). It's like a war zone out there sometimes! The city is very much what I was hoping for and it reminds me very much of Tianyang town which was where I lived and taught for a year and a half in Guangxi Province. I guess there are probably less water melons and baby tomatoes here though. The city ...

... second city, Xiahe (Shee-ah-gha ... took me a while to even get that right), which is in the province of Gansu. I don't need a Tibet permit. Fool. At the bus station, naturally get told no, there is a decree of no buses to this destination. Debunking, of course, means no foreigners, as I spot the odd Tibetan monk in the bus waiting room. I am now, like it or not, in Lanzhou, recently officially posted as the most polluted city in the world. Don't be fooled. I'm loving every minute of it.

... driver would wait for us while we were in the museum. And he would bring us to the taxi driver after the tour. We bought our tickets and went in. There were three main buildings in the museum. The first contains two bronze chariotts that were unearthed close to the Emperor's tomb. The guide explained that the army is in it's original location. The Emperor's tomb is about 1.5 km east of the army in an untouched hill. Why untouched? Well ...

China Update - May 2008 (Erin's Version) Hello Again Loved Ones! I'm very sorry for the long delay in between China updates - I had promised myself I would try to get them out monthly to keep them brief but up-to-date and alas, that hasn't been the case. So, thank you for your patience and hopefully you can enjoy this installment despite its ridiculous length. Most recent news of course includes the recent major earthquake that originated in the Chengdu area of China's Sichuan province ...

... is a Tibetan Buddhist temple relatively concentrated areas, all for the Red Sect (Ningma) temple, in addition to the well-known five-Ming Buddhist College, there are tens of millions of dollars to spend before the final completion of the auspicious Tibetan homes, Clarion it Heung Le Temple poor, a rural school is the pull Temple satisfied folding Goumba Horyuji Temple, as well as playing, Sera, and more than 3000 years ago ...

... time that they have ever seen Westerners apart from on TV - so we understand their facination. They also invite us to a tour of their village in the morning. The village (called Dun Miao or something similar) has a population of just over 1000. The dirt streets are lined by small houses each with its own enclosed courtyard. In the courtyards the villagers grow a few vegetables and keep pigs. Some of the houses are brick construction and others are adobe. Inside each ...

... they were just a bit too desperate for custom. Then we would look for somewhere quite busy, and full of people who looked like locals, not tourists of foreigners. And after that it went on the quality of the tablecloths!! We were brought a trolley of cold starters to choose from, and whilst we were eating those we decided to try and work out what we wanted from the main menu using the guide book. We found the characters for chicken, beef and lamb ...