Sitting on the mountain

Monkey Magic & the Honeymoon suite

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July 25th 2011
After sleeping of our 4am arrival we headed out to explore Lanzhou town. Before doing so we had to deal with the 2 receptionists, lets call them Dumb & Dumber! It took a good 10min with Dani repeating over and over again in perfect Chinese that we needed to check out of our temporary room and into our pre-booked room for which we even had a printed out reservation confirmation. It wasn't a ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more