Our flight from Beijing to Lanzhou was uneventful, except for Kristine’s pair of scissors being confiscated at Beijing airport security checkpoint. Flight was on time but we didn’t get to Lanzhou city centre until midnight. Airport was 72km away from town centre, second farthest from nearest town centre in China. Airport coach cost Y30 per person. First bus was packed so we had to take a second bus 10mins later. Upon reaching the city centre, we had to take a taxi to our hotel. The taxi cost us Y4. This is a city where the taxi drivers dont earn much. They take multiple passengers whenever they can. Next morning, we joined a city tour for Y180, but we were the only tourists in the group with a tour guide and a driver. We had a ride on a raft across the Yellow River steered by a Uiger man. The raft was supported by 13 inflated sheep skins, apparently an old means of transportation across that river before bridges were invented. The river was stinky, but Kristine and Kimberley had a ball.
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