Lanzhou - again

This time in Lanzhou we achieved boring stuff, we extended our visa at the PSB and made arrangements for our next journey. With golden week (a weeks worth of national bank holiday where the population of china goes sightseeing) looming we where anxious if we'd get our train tickets to Urumqi. The west of China is less popular with the Chinese to visit, (they prefer the touristic sightseeing cities) we hoped we'd be saved from the train choas as the population moves round the country - wrong. Forced to arrange a plane ticket or stay in Lanzhou for 5 days (not happening) we went over budget for the first time. We flew out of there that night.