Hohhot-Yinchuan, China (overnight sleeper bus) | 18 July, 2006 | $17.92 (bus fare)
Getting to Lanzhou from Hohhot proved to be difficult. I believe I was on an indirect train line and, even then, the trains were sold out and only ran every other day. I ended up booking an overnight sleeper bus from Hohhot to Yinchuan. I didn’t plan to go to Yinchuan and didn’t have guidebook pages with a map of the city with me. Luckily, my limited Chinese was able to get me across town in a taxi at 5am?just in time to catch the daily train to Lanzhou. The picture above shows the sleeper bus I slept on in-between Hohhot and Yinchuan.
This bus ride was typical, mostly middle-aged Chinese men with horrible mobile ringtones. I wrote about one of them in my me-go mix. I can usually squeeze my Western frame into small bus seats, but squeezing my hips in-between the bars of these narrow beds left me pinned in one place all night.
2 responses to “Where I Slept: Hohhot-Yinchuan, China”
Sounds like a good trip. I hope you enjoyed Lanzhou!
Megan, you experienced something most of us Chinese have not.Be proud!