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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...
2 Reviews and 40 Opinions After leaving Dun Huang, we spent a night at Silk Road Dun Huang Hotel. This hotel has a sprawling...
Lanzhou Mansion Hotel: Huge building with very slow elevator
tompt Says: The Lanzhou Mansion hotel is a very large building with a slow elevator. It can cost you some time to get down to the lobby. The elevators are not very spacious...
victorwkf Says: Perhaps the best and most popular way to tranverse the huge and isolated regions of Western China, including Gansu, is by train. You can start in Xian city and...
victorwkf Says: The Xuanbi Great Wall is a very anicent portion of the famous China Great Wall and is located in the rugged and try terrain of Gansu. It is worth a visit and...
gifiltafish Says: The insurance they might say you can't get on the bus without in Gansu, particularly Lanzhou and Linxia, and occasionally Tianshui, is a complete scam. If you...
Lesha's: Yak Burgers and more!!
nattybabe Says: The main place to eat in Langmusi is Lesha's on the main street. It is written up in the Lonely Planet and consequently has a backpacker feel about it. It is...
Ren Chen Hotel: Comfortable but cold
nattybabe Says: We stayed at the Ren Chen Hotel which is centrally located in the Village Square and therefore walking distance to all attractions. The rooms are semi...
nattybabe Says: If you take a walk through Sertri Gompa monastery and keep going towards the mountains you will find the mediation cave. This has been used by monks for...
nattybabe Says: Just outside of Sertri Gompa monastery are the water prayer wheels. They are situated on top of a small stream and the force of the water makes the wheels turn...
Sertri Gompa and Kirti Gompa monasteries
nattybabe Says: Both these large monasteries are of the Gelukpa sect of Buddhism of which the Gandam Tripa is the head priest. It was the 53rd Gandam Tripa who founded the...
angelachina2 Says: We were attacked by dogs while walking in grasslands near Xiahe. Lonely Planet advised throwing stones - this worked! Local people were very concerned and...
tompt Says: During the summer the graslands are filled with yak and nomadtents. Almost every grouptour visits a nomadfamily. Our group brought some presents (bread and...
tompt Says: Traffic is very dangerous here. Drivers are acting like the road is theirs and no one else can drive there.We had a buscrash and never had one quiet moment...
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The golden Kharma Wheel, with two deer besides it. The Wheel symbolises Sakyamuni, a founder of buddhism, and the deer were the first listeners to his...
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Q: Our current route is approximately Xining -- Huatugou -- Charklik (Ruoqiang) -- Hotan -- Karghilik (Yecheng) -- Yarkand (Shache)...
A: Oops. Sorry, Ellyse. I didn't see this before your trip. In fact, I was traveling in Xinjiang during July. I will keep a closer eye on the northwest locations posts in...
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Gansu - Along the Ancient Silk Road
Update in September 2007: I have updated my VT Gansu page with more photographs of the incredible scenery of this beautiful and harsh land. They are at the travelogue section of this VT page for your...
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We travelled through a part of Gansu where you find the nomads with their herds in summer. From Lanzhou to Xiahe, the most Tibetan town outside Tibet, on to Langmusi. Between Xiahe and Langmusi there...
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Langmusi, literally meaning "fairy monastery" is situated on the main Gansu to Sichuan highway track. Thr town was so named after an ancient legend that tells of a fairy turned into stone on a...
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Gansu is a big, big province with a land area half as big again as Japan, yet with a population of only 25 million. Historically and culturally it has been more part of Central Asia with significant...
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Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, West China
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