Jiayuguan Travel Blogs

People I met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia), Portia (USA)   Having returned from our trip, Julia and I were famished, so left Portia at the hotel and went to eat some fast food at Dicos. There's only so much Chinese food i can eat in one day, so a chicken burge…

So the taxi driver we had used in Jiayuguan was a random person who approached us at the train station when we arrived, but he turned out to be a good driver and charged a reasonable rate. For the 4 sights we saw on the first day, 150 RMB per car! and the 2nd day to 7-1 Glacier, all day for 400 RMB…

When you have to be at an airport for mid-afternoon, it's hard to be motivated to do much. And I think I've pretty much exhausted Jiayuguan anyway. So I just had another trip out to where the wall is, had a bit of lunch, and then hung around at the hotel. Jiayuguan airport is the tiniest I've …

Last night when I got back to the hotel it was locked for the night.  (At 8pm!)  After yelling and knocking to no avail, I finally squeezed my fingers through the opening between the doors and slowly pushed the wooden block locking them to the side to get in.  In the morning I checke…

Oh yes. Onto the Silk Road proper and into the hot hot heat of western China.Jiayuguan is a place with great significance in the Chinese phyche, even today. It's the place where the Great Wall ends with the Impregnable Defile Under Heaven. Which is a load of rubbish really because the wall was, ah,…