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The sights and sounds of Lanzhou, helping expats and travelers to get more out of the city, through photos, field recordings and translations

Nicola came to visit, and these are some of the things we did...Took photos by the "Journey to the West" sculpturesTook a boat ride on the river [...]
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As ever, there are plenty of well-known cities below Lanzhou on today's air quality rankings (Dec 14), published by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.Out of 86 locations, Lanzhou came 54th. Here is a selection of those places with worse air quality. The rank [...]
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An incredible sight, in the dry hills to the north of Anning District. We actually walked through the construction site a year ago, on an ill-advised short-cut during a long countryside walk. There was a precarious descent to what is now the beginner [...]
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World AIDS Day was on December 1, so this post is rather overdue. I took the camera out hoping to see buses with big red ribbons, as I did last year. No luck. But I di [...]
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Or to give it it's full name: Lanzhou Yellow River Silver Beach Wetland Park.兰州黄河银滩湿地公园 (Lánzhōu Huánghé Yíntān Shīdì Gōngyuán).The park is on the north bank of the Yellow River, directly below the Yíntān Huánghé Dàqiío Bridge (银滩黄河&#2 [...]
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After months looking like this.......the new roof is finally finished: [...]
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Here are some photos of the places we visited on a three-day trip to neighboring Shănxī (陕西) province (spelled Shaanxi in pinyin, to distinguish it from Shānxī 山西 province).Dāngjiācūn (党家村)  [...]
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection placed Lanzhou 50th out of 86 locations around China (stats for October 22). Lanzhou is on page 3, but as the results are not ranked I copied and pasted into Excel and reordered them.The cities ranked 25-80 all got a 'good' rating. However, given that Lanzhou is often criticized for its poor air quality, I t [...]
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As sign that winter is on the way, roasted chestnut stands have sprung up all over the city. They do the roasting on the spot, and there are usually long queues of customers.Roasting: [...]
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