Here’s some advice from someone who went on a year abroad in China last year.
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We got into Jiayuguan from Dunhuang around lunchtime, rested for a bit, then went to see the end of the Great Wall! We got to the park, bought our tickets, and quickly spotted the wall. We quickly realized that the site is completely reconstructed. Everything looks pretty new. They had a lot of cultural events…
We arrived in Dunhuang around 7am from Zhangye and headed into town to find our hostel. We actually found out that where we were staying that night didn’t open until 6pm, but they had an affiliated hostel, where we could go first. They were so nice there! We were staying at 敦煌国际沙漠露营基地, but the other hostel…
We arrived in Dunhuang around 7am from Zhangye and headed into town to find our hostel. We actually found out that where we were staying that night didn’t open until 6pm, but they had an affiliated hostel, where we could go first. They were so nice there! We were staying at 敦煌国际沙漠露营基地, but the other hostel…
We arrived in Zhangye in the evening. We arranged a driver to take us with some other tourists to both the Rainbow Mountains and to Mati Temple. We left pretty early in the morning and made it to Mati Si (Horse footprint temple) around when it opened. It’s a Buddhist temple carved into the side…
After the long bus ride from Xiahe, we finally made it to Xining. We got the bus to our hostel and decided to take the whole afternoon off from sight seeing and public transportation. While I was reading or something, the guy who was working reception made me some tea and we chatted for a…
We woke up just after sunrise and found a completely changed scenery. Farm fields had been swapped for arid land and sand dunes. We arrived at the Lanzhou train station about 6am and were trying to make a bus to Xiahe at about 7. While we were on the bus, the landscape transformed even more….
We headed from Huashan to Xi’an to spend a night there and celebrate Louisa’s birthday. On our first afternoon there, we showered and did some laundry, which definitely needed to happen after Huashan. We basically did all of my favorite things I did the last time I was there. I even found the same jia…
We got the train from Luoyang to Huashan North Station, which was as short taxi ride away from our hostel.
After being on the train all afternoon and evening, we finally made it from Qingdao to Luoyang. It was about 10 or 11pm when we made it to our hostel. We were pretty hungry and James had already scouted out a street food market, so we headed there for a late night meal. This place had some…