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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gansu, the mainland's little Lhasa
Updated: 2006-10-16Gansu province in northwest China offers the cultural charm of Tibet without the crowds.
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