Lanzhou Travel Blogs

We met at where Phil and Julia were staying across the Lanzhou airport early in the morning and took a taxi to the west side bus station which was rather far away. Taxi around town was pretty inexpensive. 5 RMB for most places, and maybe 10-15 across town. At the bus station, we were approached by …

People I met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia), Portia (USA)   It only took 90 minutes to make it back to Lanzhou, and after the taxi dropped us off, we jumped straight into another one, to take us to a street which was famous for its cuisine. Portia had been reco…

We're currently in the bus, driving from Lanzhou to Bingling Temple. The pollution in this place is worse than Beijing. Ridiculous. At least in Beijing, you can't really smell the pollution. Here it makes one ill just to breathe, it smells so odd. The retirement age here is super young, 50 for men,…

Another six or eight hour motorway bus ride took me to Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province. Quite a cool town. Got a very bog-standard room at the third attempt, tried to find a bus to get to the river, failed, walked. Spent a good twenty minutes just looking at the Yellow River in the gathering dus…

偶然路过海门路的周家嘴路南侧，看到一个饭店的招牌，让人不禁会意一笑。它所处位置虽然是在上海市区偏东的虹口区，但东施效颦的味道还是有点的。以前沪上红极一时的达伶港，至今让人记忆犹新。虽然这家饭店的工作�…

My love affair with the mountains continues with a recent trip to The Roof Of The World - Tibet. Our journey to Lhasa was a 29 1/2 hours train ride from Lanzhou on the Qinghai-Tibet (Qingzang) Railway. To get to Lanzhou was indeed a long journey, flying eastwards from Dubai to Shanghai, from Shangh…

My long far-east tour, started in Nepal (did the Everest Trek), continued into India and then back to Tibet, Mongolia and amazing China. Finished the tour in the middle due to some Job in London... went back a year after, look for that Travelogue :)

Ok so Ive arrived in india now, currently in Varanasi, considered the holiest city in India by Hindus...and its a truly crazy place. Ive only been in the country 48 hours and already a lots happened and ive met some strange characters...but if I dont write about the other stuff now I never will! So…

My first day of 2009 was spent again in Lanzhou. Frankly speaking, I haven't found the beauty of Lanzhou. It gives me as a dull city. Spitting has gone to a whole new disgusting level (the worst encounter i ever seen for my 4 years in China). People everywhere were spitting like no business, from e…

Reflections on the Second Week of TECC   During the first week both the TECC volunteers and the teachers of the Gulang Training Institute didn’t know what to expect.  With that time behind us, however, the volunteers grew more attuned to the teachers’ needs in the second week.…

De reis van 2008. Van het gesloten Noord-Korea naar China (inclusief eclips), Tibet en Nepal!

After the freezing morning I went to Kuqa's train station in a hope to buy a ticket to "as far east as possible". I learned, with a little joy, that there is a direct train from Kuqa to Lanzhou that departs at 22:53 (thus I would have to kill a day in Kuqa ) and that arrives in …

Rondreis China - Tibet - Nepal