Golmud Travel Guide

 John195123 Says:  The few rooms of this 20yuan/person/night are clean enough to crash for the night, but nothing to write home about. If the main hotel, just across the square from the train station is closed, this one should be open. The people who run it are friendly and should get you... 

 Williebobs Says:  Not for the faint hearted initially, but really very good. A kind of smoked meat butchers (and the butcher was smoking). Point to a nice looking piece of the ham/pork and he'll chop it to pieces, add garlic, soya beans, chilli etc etc and pop it in a bag with chopsticks... 

 l_joo Says:  This trap is worst. How worst ? Our first plan was to do an overland trip from Lanzhou to Golmud and than agin from Golmud by bus to Lhasa and than crossing the border into Nepal but later this trap screwed us up. The CITS charge us 3400 yuan for the package group travel,... 

 Williebobs Says:  What a strange place. 25 hour sleeper bus journey from Lhasa and here we were. Freezing when we left Lhasa but boy was it hot when we arrived in Golmud. There is a sign here which says, 'Top Tourist City in China'. However, we found no one who spoke English (although...