Blogs from Xiahe, Gansu, China, Asia - page 3

Friends through silence So yesterday I caught a bus very early from Xining to Xiahe. I woke up at 6am and was out of the hotel heading to the bus station by 6.30; it was freezing cold. Some how I managed to navigate my way to the right bus and stood around waiting for the driver to come and load our stuff onto the bus. Once all the gear was loaded and we started getting on the bus an argument broke out between the driver of the bus and a family of Tibetans, something to do with not having enough tickets. There was the grandmother, grandfather, mother, father and two small boys probably about 7 and 5 years old. In the end from what I could gather, they only had three tickets. What happened next blew ... read more

Dag allemaal, Na Langmusi zijn we naar Xiahe getrokken. Om zeven uur 's morgens in de vrieskou een overvolle bus genomen naar Xiahe. Er waren geen zitplaatsen meer dus moesten Yves en ik (met andere Tibetanen en Chinezen) in het gangpad zitten, verstopt voor eventuele wegcontroles onderweg. Hoewel de rit maar drie uur duurde was het een van de minst aangename die we al gedaan hebben. Ik had weer eens migraine en zat misselijk met mijn plastiek zakske klaar op de grond. De verstikkende lucht in de bus en de penetrante geuren van zure yakboter en pas opgestoken sigaretten hielpen natuurlijk ook niet. Toen de vrouw naast mij begon over te geven moest ik mijn uiterste best doen om ook niet mijn zakje te vullen met mijn ontbijt... De rit ging traag want het was aan ... read more

Xiahe... a long way from Jiayuguan: 10 hours of snoring men and screaming children, some meaty vegetarian dumplings in Lanzhou and a 6 hour busride to 3000m above sea level - the Tibetan Plateau, and we're in Xiahe. It feels like a different country. The bus station is in the East of the town, and one long road of shops and houses stretches west until it arrives at Labulang Lamasery, the largest Tibetan Monastery outside Lhasa. The streets are even more chaotic than usual, three wheeled bike/trucks that sound more like tractors zoom up and down, the ubiquitous green taxis beep their way through the pedestrians, donkey carts tethered to electricity poles, and people walking everywhere. We and the two other Australians we met on the bus took a 3-wheeler straight to the hostel recommended by ... read more

Bueno! pues este sera mi blog de viaje xD Ahora mismo estoy en Xiahe, China, es una ciudad tibetana en Gansu, provincia china situada en el noroeste. La llaman el segundo tibet. Y como he llegado aqui? estoy haciendo un pequenio tour en China, parti de Shanghai y fui a Chengdu (Sichuan), visite zonas de Sichuan como Jiuzhaigou, Huanglong y montanias como Emeishan y Leshan. Seguidamente me dirigi de Chengdu a Lanzhou (capital de Gansu), visite la ciudad un dia y al dia siguiente (es decir, hoy) fui hacia Xiahe. Este sitio me lo recomendaron Anton y Alex, que han estado viajando desde Estambul hasta China. Mas tarde volvere a Lanzhou y si tenemos tiempo visitaremos el museo (tengo ganas de ver el esqueleto del mamut!!) porque.. nos vamos hacia Xi'an. Y ahi es donde terminara ... read more

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 we mysteriously had to go to another bus station, despite the fact that there were several buses present in the one we'd arrived at with Xiahe on their destination cards. The 10 minute journey across ... read more