{"id":5636,"date":"2011-08-09T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2016-10-16T03:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:53:46","slug":"lanzhou-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/china-travel\/lanzhou-trip","title":{"rendered":"Lanzhou Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Together with my co-worker Mr.Jonhy Hao, we took the\u00a02 hour flight CA1273 for Lanzhou<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

CA1273,\u00a0an\u00a0Air China\u00a0flight was scheduled to take off at\u00a007:20 and land at 09:35 at Lanzhou Zhongchuan\u00a0Airport from Beijing<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Basically there are about 9 daily flights running between Beijing and Lazhou, operated by Air China, Eastern China Airline, Hainan Airline.<\/p>\n

For unknown reasons, our plane didn\u2019t take off as scheduled till 8:00am.\u00a0For\u00a0most of\u00a0our flight journey, our plane flew at the hight of 8400 meters and at the speed of 900 km per hour. Our plane picked up speed and finally we landed safe and smooth at Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the course of the 2 hour flight, we were quite fascinated by the landscape below us, lush green mountains, then giving away to the\u00a0boundless desert,\u00a0 leoss plateau\u00a0and chocalet coloured Yellow River near Lanzhou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lanzhou Airport<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lanzhou Airport\u2019s official name is Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport<\/a><\/span>. Lanzhou airport is about 70km north of the city of Lanzhou, the second furtherest airport from the downtown, just after Lhasa airport. Lanzhou airport is located in\u00a0a plain of\u00a0a valley on\u00a0the loess plateau and on the fringe of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a major airport in the northwest China.<\/p>\n

Lanhzou airport is well connected with the major cities in China like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xian, Urumqi, Shenyang, Wuhan, Xiamen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Fuzhou as well as the flights within Gansu Province to Jiayuguan and Dunhuang. It has also tourism charter flights to Hong Kong and international cities in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia.<\/p>\n

The main terminal is a two-storey building with the arrival hall on the first floor and departure hall on the second floor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you are going to take a taxi to your hotel in the city of Lanzhou, you just walk through the waiting hall and see the sign of Taxi Stand\u00a0and line up for taking your cab. Airport \u2013 Downtown taxi fare around RMB 150.\u00a0 Lanzhou Taxi<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you prefer to take a shuttle bus from airport to the CAAC \u00a0Office (just opposite to Jinjiang Sun Hotel)\u00a0in the downtown of Lanzhou, you first buy your bus ticket in the waiting hall by the middle gate. RMB 30 for one shuttle bus ride going every half hour.\u00a0The shuttel bus ride\u00a0takes about 50 minutes.<\/p>\n

Your bus is just outside the waiting hall.\u00a0 If you cannot see your shuttle bus, you have to wait for a while since the bus operates very half hour.<\/p>\n

We had a private transfer arranged by the local tourim bureau. The car driver was a young man of few words. We didn’t talk much on the way from Lanzhou Airport to our lodging hotel in Lanzhou – Lanzhou Legend Hotel<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hotels in Lanzhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As the capital city of Gansu, one of the less developed provinces in China,\u00a0Lanzhou<\/a> doesn\u2019t possess many luxury hotels. At the time of my writing, no international\u00a0chain hotels are available in the city of\u00a0Lanzhou.<\/p>\n

Mid-range hotels, like 4 or 3 stars take a large share of the market in\u00a0Lanzhou<\/a>.\u00a0In the past few years, Lanzhou has seen the fast growing of express hotels such Hanting Inn and Hotels, Jinjiang Inn, Home Inn, Green Tree Inn\u2026<\/p>\n

If you travel on a budget, these kinds of express hotels mentioned above are highly recommended. They are clean, cheap and equipped with in-house fast\u00a0internet. If you don\u2019t have your laptop on hand, you may go to the compact lobby, such as the lobby of Hanting Inns, they often put two free computers in the lobby for people to use, to surf and to\u00a0print.<\/p>\n

Our hotel – Lanzhou Legend Hotel\u00a0is a 4 star hotel that most of the leisure or business travelers would like to choose to use for their first trip to Lanzhou. Lanzhou legend Hotel is centrally located at 599, Tianshui Road, Lanzhou, by the crossroad formed by north-south Tianshui Road and east -west Donggang Xilu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We registered and checked in at Lanzhou Legend Hotel.<\/div>\n
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We registered and checked in at Lanzhou Legend Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Walk down to the south from Lanzhou Legend Hotel along Tianshui Road, you will soon get to Lanzhou Railway Station<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The two\u00a0Lanzhou bar streets \u2013 Gannan Road and Maijishan Road, are just one and two blocks south of Lanzhou Lengend Hotel.<\/p>\n

Walk along Donggang Xilu, you soon pass by Jin Jiang Sun Hotel, then come across Dongfang Square, the heart of Lanzhou. Again you walk towards the west, soon you will be Qingyang Road, in which the 5 star hotel Gangsu Sunshine Hotel.<\/p>\n

Our hotel address and phone number:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Add: 599, Tianshui Road, Lanzhou Gansu Province, China
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\nTel: 86-931-8532888<\/div>\n
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After check-in at Lanzhou\u00a0Legend Hotel, we walked along the main avenue – Tianshui Road down to Lanzhou Railway Station<\/a><\/span> for an inspection.<\/p>\n

Lanzhou Railway Station<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the time of my writing, there is only one passenger railway station in Lanzhou \u2013 Lanzhou Railway Station. It is located below the Gaolan Mountain in the south of Chengguan District of Lanzhou, Gansu Province.<\/div>\n
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Lanzhou Railway Station<\/div>\n
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Lanzhou Railway Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Lanzhou is a major\u00a0transport, especially a railway\u00a0hub\u00a0in the\u00a0western China. It has the following railway lines:<\/p>\n

Longhai Railway Line:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To the east (Xian, Zhengzhou, Lianyungang), extending to Beijing, Shanghai\u2026, the first railway line\u00a0connecting Lanzhou (1953).<\/p>\n

Lanxin Railway Line:
\nTo the west and northwest linking the western Gansu and Urumqi, and further extending to other\u00a0places in Xinjiang
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Lanqing Railway Line:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To the west and southwest, with direct train\u00a0service\u00a0connecting Xining and Lhasa.<\/p>\n

A Train line linking to the north and northeast, with direct train\u00a0connecting Yinchuan and Baotou.<\/p>\n

The main railyway terminal is a two-storey building 171 meters long from east to west and 47.5 wide from north to south.<\/p>\n

Gansu Provincial Museum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Then we hailed a cab and got to the Gansu Provincial Museum.\u00a0Visiting Gansu Provincial Museum is a must for every foreign visitor coming to Lanzhou on their trip to the ancient Silk Road <\/a>in China.<\/p>\n

The Gansu Museum is a three-storey buidling with an area of 28000 square meters. The museum has an exhibition floor of 9000 square meters as well as a warehouse of 7600 square meters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gansu Provincial Museum<\/div>\n
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Gansu Provincial Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Gansu Museum is located opposite to Friendship Hotel, in Qilihe District of Lanzhou. Its exact address:\u00a03 West Xijin Road, Lanzhou (\u5170\u5dde\u5e02\u897f\u6d25\u897f\u8def3\u53f7). It lies 8km west of Lanzhou Railway Station<\/span><\/a>, 75km south of Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport<\/span><\/a>. This mumseum can be easily reached by the bus lines 1,18,31,50,53,58,59,71,76,77,103,106,129,132,134,137.The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Entrance admission stops at 4:00pm. Though the entry into the musuem is free of charge, you have to show your ID card at the ticket office by the gate to exchange for a free ticket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Every morning (Monday closed) only 600 visitors\u00a0and every afternoon ( Monday closed) only 400 visitors\u00a0are allowed to enter the musuem. If you travel on a group, your group have to reserve the tickets.<\/p>\n

So you travel independently, you are advised to go to the museum a little bit earlier to avoid the possible crowds of tourists. Visitors have to go through security check before entry.<\/p>\n

Zhongshan Bridge<\/a><\/strong> and Yellow River<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Crammed with the old Lanzhou and Gansu Province, we did need some fresh air and beautiful views to recharge ourselves.<\/p>\n

The moment we walked out of the museum, we spotted a taxi and stopped the driver and went directly to the southern bank of the Yellow River<\/span> to have\u00a0a glimpse of the famous Zhongshan Bridge<\/span> <\/a>and the river itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zhongshan Bridge<\/div>\n
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Zhongshan Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Zhongshan Bridge is a must see attraction for the first time visiors to Lanzhou.<\/a> It is located west of Lanzhou Waterwheel Park<\/a> and the east of Yellow River Mother Sculpture. Zhongshan Bridge is popularly known as \u201cIron Bridge\u201d due to the making of the bridge.It is the first bridge over the Yellow River of all the 10 bridges now spanning the Yellow River in Lanzhou. The construction of the iron bridge was finished in 1907 during the reign of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1644 \u2013 1911 ).<\/p>\n

The bridge was 234 meters long and 7.5 meters wide with 6 pillars and 5 steel arches.\u00a0In 1907, at the suggestion of the local officials, with the support and help of the German businessman, Qing Government started to build the first bridge over the\u00a0Yellow River. To commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the bridge was renamed Zhongshan Bridge (Dr. Sun Yat-sen\u2019s bridge).<\/p>\n

Yellow River is the second longest river in China\u00a0estimated length of 5,464 kilometers after Yangtze River.<\/a> Its headwaters of this mighty river\u00a0originates from Kunlun Mountains in northwestern Qinghai Province, the\u00a0west of China.<\/p>\n

It winds its way passing nine provinces and autonomous regions \u2013 Qinghai<\/a>, Gansu,\u00a0Ningxia,<\/a> Inner Mongolia,<\/a> Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong<\/span><\/a>, and finally empties into the Bohai Sea in the east of Shandong Province.\u00a0Total basin area is 742,443\u00a0km\u00b2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yellow River<\/div>\n
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Yellow River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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It flows the Loess Plateau in its middle section and carrys large amount of sand on its way down to the lower reaches of the mighty river, making the river appearing yellow, hence the name of Yellow River.<\/p>\n

We left the Yellow River area and returned to Lanzhou Legend Hotel for the banquet sponsored by the local Gansu Provincial Government. At 8:00pm we all boarded loads of buses for the Water Wheel Park<\/span> <\/a>by the southern bank of Yellow River where the ceremony was to be held.<\/p>\n

This silk road tourism festival\u00a0was said to be held for the first time in Gansu\u00a0in terms of\u00a0its size and importance. The tourism festival\u00a0was\u00a0hosted by China National Tourism Administration and Gansu Provicial People\u2019s Government.<\/p>\n

This Silk Road<\/a>\u00a0international tourism festival\u00a0was aimed at speeding up the local tourism development, a big measure to realize the super-conventional and leaping development in Gansu. Through the tourism festival, hopefully it would improve and create a positive image of Gansu globally, hence greatly facilitating the social and economic development in Gansu.<\/p>\n

Silk Road<\/a>\u00a0was the world\u2019s first information superhighway, trading goods, exchanging different cultures and religions between China and Central Asia through the mountain and desert corridor of Gansu.<\/p>\n

The ancient travelers, pilgrims, artists, soldiers and merchants had created a mixed culture and left behind a rich treasure troves \u2013 military garrisons, great wall, tombs and grottoes.<\/p>\n

Gansu is also famous for its Tibetan culture and alpine grassland. Larang Monastery and Sangke Grassland are not to be missed. Some of the diverse people you may meet on your own including the Hui, Tibetans, Mongols, Dongxiang and Kazakhs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The openning ceremony was finished around 10:30pm with the fireworks!<\/div>\n
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The openning ceremony was finished around 1030pm with the fireworks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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We really had a full day!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Further Readings<\/h2>\n
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Lanzhou Tour <\/a>
\nGansu Tour<\/a>
\nTop 10 Attractions in Lanzhou<\/a>
\nTop 10 Places in Gansu<\/a>
\nHow to Enjoy Nightlife in Lanzhou<\/a>
\nLanzhou Zhangye Road Pedestrian Street<\/a>
\nZhengning Road Night Snack Market in Lanzhou<\/a>
\nLanzhou Bar Street<\/a>
\nLanzhou Antique Market <\/a>
\nLanzhou Waterwheel Park<\/a>
\nLanzhou Zhongshan Bridge<\/a>
\nLanzhou City Layout<\/a>
\nHow to visit Gansu Museum<\/a>
\nLanzhou Yintan Wetland Park<\/a>
\nLanzhou Zhongchuan Airport<\/a>
\nLanzhou Railway Station<\/a>
\nLanzhou Xiguan Mosque<\/a>
\nWhere to stay in Lanzhou<\/a>
\nYellow River, the Mother River of China<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nAny questions, just drop a line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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