Travel log
Sights
Heavenly grottoes
Updated: 2013-03-21Before the trip to Maiji Mountain, I was only expecting to see a wheat-stack-shaped mountain, as its Chinese name indicates.
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A Taste of Tibet
Updated: 2012-10-31The eminently Tibetan areas of northern Sichuan and southern Gansu provinces are home to one of China’s most colourful ethnic groups and some of the country’s most striking scenery.
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Wild west adventure
Updated: 2012-09-06Gansu province has plenty to interest visitors, from the Dunhuang Grottoes and Yellow River, to the unique sights and sounds of its cities.
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One of a 'Kind'
Updated: 2012-05-14My decision to travel around China lay solely with my curiosity about the place - it was the one place that I had always wanted to explore since childhood.
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Taking the high road
Updated: 2011-04-12Mike Peters waxes lyrical about the pleasures of Lanzhou and southern Gansu as he stops to smell the flowers and discover a little piece of Switzerland in China.
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Gansu, the mainland's little Lhasa
Updated: 2006-10-16Gansu province in northwest China offers the cultural charm of Tibet without the crowds.