Lanzhou Travel Guide
Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu Province. About 3.2 million people live in the urban area. Lanzhou was an ancient city on the 'Silk Road' trade route between Europe and China because it is at the entrance of a lowland corridor called the Hexi Corridor. On either side of this big long valley, there are high mountains, deserts and plateaus that blocked travel to the north and south. The people benefited from the trade through the area, and they were influenced by Western ideas and religions.
In and around Lanzhou are ancient Buddhist temple sites and shrines. Now, Lanzhou has a large Muslim minority of about 9% of the population. The city is an important transportation hub. The legacy of centuries of travel and trade on the Silk Road are the Bingling Temple Grottoes near Lanzhou and ancient temples and fortifications in the Hexi Corridor, and the modern city of Lanzhou offers the Gansu Provincial Museum as a travel highlight and modern facilities for a Silk Road tour. more about Lanzhou »
- Chinese Name: 兰州
- Chinese Pinyin: lán zhōu
- Location: North of China
- Latitude: 36° 05' N
- Longitude: 103° 37' E
- Elevation: 1520 M (4987 FT)
- Time Zone: (UTC+8)
- Area Code: 0931
- Population: 3.22 million
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Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves
Feature The grottoes area has one of the biggest surviving carved statues of Buddha from the Tang Dynasty era (618-907) in China. The statue measures about 27 meters or 90 feet tall. It is similar to bigger giant statues built about 250 years earlier in Central Asia showing the cultural link with the re... more about Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves
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Hi Danial,
You may fly to Shanghai or Guangzhou from Laos and then take a train or flight to Lanzhou. It may needs two days if you arrive at the first mainland city in the late afternoon.
Hi Danial,
You may fly to Shanghai or Guangzhou from Laos and then take a train or flight to Lanzhou. It may needs two days if you arrive at the first mainland city in the late afternoon. You may check the flight rate on Expedia(http://www.expedia.com/). It offers good price.
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