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At 8:00am we start for Ruoergai Grassland (our first destination today) from Labrang Civil Aviation Hotel in Xiahe in Gannan Tibet Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province. The 280km drive takes about 3 and half hours largely along the National Highway 212. Ruoergai Grassland is located in the north of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture…
Plan your Gansu tour? A side trip from Lanzhou to Langmusi is worth your time going deeper in the southern Gansu. “Langmusi” in Chinese literally “Langmu Temple”. But actually it is the name of the small town bordering Gansu in the north and Sichuan in the south. “Langmu” in Tibetan means “Fairy”. The legend has…
After dinner, we went to Lanzhou Railaway Station for a 11-hour train trip from Lanzhou to Jiayuguan. Lanazhou Railway Station is the only passenger railway station in Lanzhou. It is located below the Gaolan Mountain in the south of Chengguan District of Lanzhou, Gansu Province. We were arranged to take the overnight Train K9661 starting at…
Planning your Dunhuang Tour? Dunhuang (敦煌) once commanded a very important strategic position at the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road along the narrow Gansu Corridor which was extended to the north Chinese plains and the ancient capitals of Chang’ans and Luoyang. Dunhuang is a small town with wide sidewalks and easy walking narrow lanes…
Plan your Gansu Tour in autumn? Gansu Province has a varied landscape with wide species of plants. Its north is the famous Hexi Corridor flanked by Qilian Mountains and Longshou Mountains; its south is the transitional area from the loess to Qinghai -Tibetan Plateau; its east part is dominated by the mountainous areas and the loess plateau. Its…
Plan your Gansu tour? Gansu Province is located in the northwest of China, lying in the transitional area between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus with the Yellow River passing through the southern part of the province. Synonymous with the Silk Road, Gansu’s narrow strip of the land bounded between Qilian Mountains and Longshou Mountains known…
On Auguast 01, 2011, after simple Chinese lunch at the end of visiting Jiayuguan Pass, we set off for Dunhuang on a 385km road trip along the National Highway G30 and changed at Guazhou County for National Highway G313 leading to our destination – Dunhaung. We set off for Dunhuang on a 385km road trip. …