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I'm sure that describing Zhangye's main attraction as 'Off the Beaten Track' seems a bit inapprorpiate, but this tip is to get their early in the morning, when it opens at 7.30am (although you can slip in a little earlier).

Take your flask of tea or a coffee and just find somewhere quiet to sit and contemplate life. In the summer, the air is full of swooping swifts and swallows flitting around the trees and under the eaves. While this is normally a danger signal for the presence of mosquitos, I didn't see any at ground level.

The air ic clean, the place is calm and it is the perfect place to start the day....

Written Jun 17, 2006

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