Next stop after JiaYuGuan is ZhanYe. The bus we took went on local roads (not expressways). The journey took 4 hrs to complete 240km. Kristine, Kimberley and I took the back seats, bumpy but they could both lie down and stretch out comfortably. With Kimberley and Kristine still coughing badly, and Grace starting to yield to their viruses, we cancelled all tours around Zhangye and just roamed around the hotel/town centre. Nothing exciting to report but everyone was happy and relaxed. Some happy hours at an amusement park near our hotel (Y160/night, with b/fasts). Zhangye was the last stop in our journey where we had a lamb dish for dinner. The desert landscape to the west apparently produces good lamb (or goat, I cannot tell from the Chinese menu but they were tender meats). Zhangye demarcates the desert to the west from agricultural land to the east.
We went to a Sichuan restaurant just next to the hotel, our initial and final choice after a long walk to check many restaurants out. We ordered a tofu/vege dish for Kristine and Kimberley. Grace and I specifically asked if that dish was spicy. The waitress replied no. When the dish arrived, it had redhot cut chillis. I asked the waitress why she told us it was not a spicy dish. She replied:”The chillis are hot but the vegetable and tofu are not, and this is not a hot dish’. Not spicy compared to a Sichuan hotpot maybe. It is all relative! Excellent dishes tough.
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