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Brina904 - Sabrina K | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 23 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=195812] | 2007-08-25 03:52:16
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Alright, I am currently sitting in an internet cafe attached to my hotel in Jiayuguan and want to try to update what I have done in the last week. After we left Urumqi, we went to Turpan and spent one night with the local Uigur people. Turpan is known for its grapes and I got to experience them first hand. When we first arrived in the village, they had us go out to the grape fields and pick grapes from the low hangin arbors. They are probably the sweetest grapes I have ever tasted in my life. For the rest of [View Full Entry]
Helloooo peeeeps! .. hope you are all well and good to see that you are enjoying the pictures. So I am in a Tibetan town called Xiahe (Shee-a-ha) on the 28,29,30 and 31st July in the Gansu province at an altitude of 3kilometers above sea level. It's my favourite place so far, bueatiful lpace, friendly Tibetan people, nice hostel. Though it breaks my heart to leave this place, I take the 7:40 bus onm 1st August from Xiahe to Langmusi which is also in the Gansu province and I get there 4 hours later. I go hiking the same day I [View Full Entry]
salhasan - Sal Hasan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=189803] | 2007-08-08 08:54:44
www.diariodeunviaje.com (todo en nuestra pagina web) A unos 300 km de Lanzhou, es un pueblo tibetano a 3.000m de altura. El tren llego a Lanzhou a las 6:30 y directamente cogimos un taxi a la estacion de autobuses (30¥), para coger el bus de las 7:30h a Xiahe (45¥/p). Llegamos a las 11:30h, antes de lo que pensabamos (270km, 4h). La estacion de autobuses esta en la calle principal, asi que fuimos andando a buscar un hostel. Nos alojamos en Labrang Redro Youth Hostel (www.yhalbl.com) (30¥/p en dorm-4). El hostel es nuevo y esta bien, a excepcion de los baños que [View Full Entry]
PYL - Pablo y Lucia (España) | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=267948] | 2008-04-19 11:59:55
Though the aircon on the bus to Dunhuang was non-existent, it was gratifying to see the landscape changing more to the type of desert I'm familiar with - flat expanses of sand and scrub like the Outback or Saudi. Dunhuang hotels that looked similar to the places we'd been staying in recently were all charging twice as much, and we ended up in a hotel that was a sensible price but rather stuffy due to the noisy but weedy portable A/C unit. There were several reasons why we'd come to Dunhuang, the most pressing being that we needed to extend our [View Full Entry]
Jabe - John McCabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 31 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=174644] | 2007-08-09 06:38:07
We took an overnight train from Lanzhou to Jiayuguan, travelling in soft sleeper class - an air-conditioned cabin with 4 berths in 2 bunks, i.e. roughly equivalent to 2AC in India but with less legroom and luggage space. This was our first train journey in China and threw up its own mysteries like why is your ticket exchanged for a plastic card at the beginning of the journey and then changed back again at the end, and why is a small mesh pouch provided on the wall of the toilet cubicle so that you can stow your mobile phone while taking [View Full Entry]
Jabe - John McCabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 52 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=173687] | 2007-08-09 06:58:54
As we travelled from Xiahe to Lanzhou, the scenery changed from tree-covered mountains and sloping pasturelands to scrubby hills where brown was the dominant colour. The religious landscape also changed with many more skull caps, crescent moons, and minarets in evidence. I'd never thought of China as having much of a Muslim population, but apparently it wasn't only goods that came along the Silk Road - there are millions of Muslim Chinese, predominantly in the northwest of the country. Unfortunately the clear, crisp air of the mountains was also replaced with a polluted haze that was quite [View Full Entry]
Jabe - John McCabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=172900] | 2007-08-07 12:41:56
No-one seemed to know if the daily direct bus to Xiahe would be running, so we took the less risky option of first going to Hezuo, where reputedly there were several onward connections. We'd both noticed the scent of vomit in the air and, several minutes later when we'd both started to feel dampness in our trousers, investigations revealed that someone must have been sick in both our seats but had cleaned it up just enough to i) make the seats visually indistinguishable from clean ones, and ii) make it hard to tell where the smell was coming from. At Hezuo [View Full Entry]
Jabe - John McCabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 44 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=172503] | 2007-08-07 12:18:47
/Lelde/ it's actually not that hard to find your way around in the country where nobody speaks English, we have managed to purchase tickets and to find the right buses and trains so far without much troubles, well, Steven has dealt with these issues - bless him!!!:) so we are in a little town called Xiahe. We arrived yesturday afternoon. Its very nice here - mountains and a lot of monks around. The people, especially females, wear very nice and colourfull costums, their hair is made into two long plattes and they have cool hats on their heads - still haven't [View Full Entry]
Brass Monkeys - Steven & Lelde | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 10 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=170471] | 2007-08-09 08:47:05
Vrijdag 15 juni. Naar goede gewoonte waren we zeer vroeg in het busstation om de bus van 9u40 naar Wuwei te nemen. De bus van 8u50 stond er nog bijna leeg maar vertrekkensklaar zodat we maar probeerden om deze te nemen. De bediende aan de uitgang die de tickets controleerde, zei dat we op de volgende bus moesten wachten. We opperden dat we liever de tickets (die we uit voorzorg gisteren hadden gekocht) dan liever aan de balie zouden gaan wisselen. Uit ervaring wisten we dat dit geen probleem zou zijn indien er in deze bus nog plaatsen zouden zijn. [View Full Entry]
China 2006 2007 - Berna en Wim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 32 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=192027] | 2007-08-13 19:24:32
By China 2006 2007
June 12th 2007
June 12th 2007
Twee daagjes op uitstap naar Mati Si.
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Dinsdag 12 juni. In de voormiddag zorgden dat we op tijd in het westelijke busstation waren om de tickets naar Mati Si te kopen. Daarna gingen we onze bagage inpakken: kleren voor twee dagen in een klein rugzakje en de rest in de koffers die in het bagagedepot van het hotel zouden blijven. De kleine rugzakjes zaten goed volgepropt want we moesten ook wat voor koud weer voorzien voor de frisse avonden in de bergen. Het verblijf in Mati Si zou heel simpel kunnen zijn zodat we ook zelf onze handdoeken moesten voorzien. Waarschijnlijk zouden er nauwelijks winkels zijn, zodat [View Full Entry]
China 2006 2007 - Berna en Wim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 23 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=189785] | 2007-08-08 09:22:42