Lanzhou Stories


Chinese like them fireworks and KFC

Night train from Xian to Lanzhou arrives at 6am and takes about 10 hours, just getting off the train it was nice to feel cold weather specially after some days of really hot weather in Guilin, temperature was around 10c. There is a nice hotel just in front of Lanzhou station, it has 23 floors, and well since I always like...


Homeward bound..

Well my time is up here in China, I have seen and experienced so many aspects that I will need a few weeks to churn it all out. So probably by the time you read this I am ether on a plane or waiting at some airport for my flight to leave taking me back to Australia where I can safely cross the road not worrying that the interstate sleeper bus is going ...


Pigs can't fly

Pigs can’t fly I found that out the other day. You may remember from my last update on my trip to Xiahe I was feeling crook. When I returned to Lanzhou I found out that three other people where also pretty crook over the weekend, anyway on Monday things pretty much begun as normal apart from Nico. Nico is from Romania and by Wednesday with his fever...


Up the Hexi corridor and all that.

Our trip up the Hexi Corridor west to the city of Dunhuang started on Monday morning hardly giving me any time to recover from my Beijing trip two days prior. The one thousand kilometer Hexi corridor, is the start of the ancient overland silk road. It is an ancient valley, with the Qilian Shan mountain range rising and falling to the south - forming the...