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hotheaded citizen, delicious nosh
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Not many interesting spots
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Love the people, love the culture
mke1963 Says: The model of Old Jincheng on the ground floor of the Lanzhou Museum is fascinating, although only two structures survive – the Baiyuanguan temple and the Baiyisi. In the photograph, the Zhongshan Bridge is now where the pontoon bridge is on the model. The Baiyuanguan is just...
mke1963 Says: There is an interesting map of the old city of Jincheng on the ground floor of the Lanzhou Museum (see separate review). Walking the route of the old walls – none have survived – is easy with this map.
mke1963 Says: With the closure of the Gansu Provincial Museum for a decade, one might have expected the best of its collections to be rehoused here in the Lanzhou Museum which is located alongside one of the two remaining old structures in Lanzhou, the Ming Dynasty Bayi temple. Sadly,...
mke1963 Says: I cannot find out much information about this small temple and its associated stupa behind. The temple is long out of use, and is presently used as a hall exhibiting calligraphy and various forms of archives: the walls are whitewashed and although it is elegant, it is a pity...
mke1963 Says: This is a wonderfully peaceful place, an ancient Taoist temple, still very much an active one with monks in residence. Although it lies at a busy junction, facing the Yellow River, silence seems to pervade this temple as soon as you set foot inside the gateway. The temple,...
1 Review and 0 Opinions A total dive. Dark, loud rooms for Y40. They'll steal your deposit. Fire hazard - you can't leave at...
Restaurants in Lanzhou: Restaurants in Lanzhou
mke1963 Says: I haven't reviewed any restaurants in Lanzhou, not because I haven't eaten in any, but because I have eaten in so many of them. After 30 or so visits to Lanzhou in the last four years, I have eaten all over the city and the food has always been excellent. Lanzhou really is...
Street food: Try the "La Mien"
CheekyShooky Says: Lanzhou La Mien. Hand pulled noodles if I were to direct translate and they taste great with local gravy, on the spicy side though. The local consume a lot of chili oil. If you are not used to eat, when ordering a bowl of beef noodle especially, tell them less or no oil. If...
The Boton Cafe: The Boton Cafe
mke1963 Says: This coffee shop is recommended by the Lonely Planet, but quite frankly it's a complete disaster zone. Undoubtedly the worst coffee shop I have been in during the last four years across the whole of China. It took more than an hour to get a coffee served, and this was after...
From Lanzhou city to Lanzhou airport
ellyse Says: There're plenty of touts hanging around outside the CAAC office/hotel (marked in LP and other guidebooks) offering rides in cars to Lanzhou airport, we got a car for 120 RMB. Might be possible to bargain to 110 RMB, but we didn't try. The ride takes about 1 hour (72 km).
mke1963 Says: Lanzhou Airport is 70km north of Lanzhou in Yongdeng County, but there is a fast expressway from Lanzhou City right to the door of the terminal building. However, it still takes 40 minutes to make the journey. In the winter, allow extra time in the early morning because...
mke1963 Says: Just along from the Zhongshan Bridge, on the south side of Binhe Lu is a good outdoor gear shop. Just two years ago, it was impossible to find outdoor gear anywhere outside Beijing or Shanghai, but now even cities a lot smaller than Lanzhou seem to have a good selection of...
mke1963 Says: Many visitors to China quickly get exasperated with the use of tiles on every single built surface, with much of China looking like the inside of a public toilet. Except for the public toilets which are bare concrete.But the use of tiles everywhere does sometimes bring some...
mke1963 Says: Lanzhou has a large and thriving Muslim population, not just the Hui but also from a number of minorities that live in the province. Although not quite as obvious as at Linxia, further south in Gansu, there are mosques all over Lanzhou, with one of the biggest one block...
Dougann Says: In Lanzhou, if you want to get a bus to Xiahe or Linxia, go to the south bus station. If you want to avoid the ticket touts and get an official ticket, go in the door, and go through an opening on the right, there you'll find a desk where they'll help you - as a foreigner in...
shelemm Says: Lanzhou is a very polluted city. It is also very large. Because it has no subway or effective mass transit system, getting around is a major pain. Many people fly into Lanzhou to start trips for Silk Road sites, to visit Bingling Si, Xiahe, Labrang Monastery, Xining. But...
CheekyShooky Says: Not trying to gross anyone up but at every public toilet cubicle, there's a little basket by the side. It's for you to throw i the used tissue after # 1 or #2's. If you accidentally throw the piece of tissue into the toilet bowl, chances are you'll see it floating there...
Moisturizer for the ladies and gentlemen too
CheekyShooky Says: moisturizer and lip gloss is a MUST especially for travellers who hails from humid countries. Lanzhou's weather is DRY. Also BYO your own tissue cos most toilets DO not supply. Coffee lovers, BYO your 3 in 1 coffee. There's no Starbucks or whatsoever, if you're lucky to...
shelemm Says: The Bingling Si Grottoes can be visited in summer. I am told that access is only by water, and that the water in the Yellow River is too low most of the year. I visited the second week of August. Skies were clear and the air was mild. No humidity. This is an extraordinary...
mke1963 Says: I have never been to this museum, but I keep seeing it on Dong Ganxi Lu, on the north side, about 400 metres from the Lanzhou Binguan. It seems to be in a branch of a bank. Must give it a try because it seems the kind of quirky place that you don't expect in a city like...
mke1963 Says: One block west of the Baiyuanguan Temple, is a bridge over a particularly badly polluted stream - not much more than an open sewer. Yet in the old days, this short stretch of mud and grass was where the boats and barges were tied up and unloaded and the city's wharves....
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Q: we will be coming back from Lhasa by train and will get off at Lanzhou. And we planning to take a train to Tashkent.We plan to get...
A: lanzhou is not in Tibet. so you do not need any permit there
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