After dinner posing with the wait staff in their pretty uniforms outside the restaurant
particularly good for this. The above has the Chinese character for yield on it.
Yuri, Bing gui and I at Bing ling si
Last weekend, Yuri, Bing gui and I took at trip to Bing ling si caves, which is the one place near Lanzhou which my guidebook says is a must-see. Indeed it was lovely - the weather was great and the scenery was impressive. We made it a day trip, leaving very early in the morning (though had to wait until after 9 to depart, it turned out, seeing as we didn't have bus insurance). The travel was fun, first on a bus winding through the mountains, and then on a long speedboat ride across the liu jia xia reservoir, chatting with fellow passengers. I don't think I was able to appreciate the caves and cave art as much as I might have because I didn't really understand the background of how old it was and what purpose it served, but it certainly was interesting, and the scenery seriously great. There were a bunch of foreigners there on a guided tour, and I was excited to join in for the explanations, but it turned out they were all being given in German.
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