Get in Lanzhou

By bus: There are two bus station in Lanzhou

East Long-Distance Bus Station: Location: Pingliang Lu

• Tianshui: takes about 4 hours
• Pingliang: takes about 5 hours
• Guyuan: takes about 8 hours
• Zhangye: takes about 12 hours
• Yinchuan: takes about 12 hours
• Xi'an: takes about 14-16 hours
• Jiayuguan: takes about 17 hours
• Dunhuang: takes about 24 hours
• Urumqi: takes about 38 hours

West Long-Distance Bus Station: Location: Xijin Xilu

• Liujiaxia: takes about 2 hours
• Linxia: takes about 3 hours
• Xining: takes about 5 hours
• Xiahe: takes about 6 hours- from the SOUTH Bus Station, not the West

By plane: Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport is located 75km from the town centre of Lanzhou. Daily flights to Nanjing, Beijing, Jiayuguan, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Kunming, Shenzhen, Dunhuang, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Changsha, Shenyang, Fuzhou, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Ürümqi, Xiamen, Shanghai, Haikou, and Xi'an.

By Train: Lanzhou Huoche Zhan - southern end of Pingliang Lu at Tianshui Lu

• Golmud via Xining: takes about 14 hours
• Shanghai via Xi'an and Zhengzhou: takes about 23 hours
• Beijing via Hohhot and Datong
• Xian: takes about 9 hours
• Chengdu: takes about 19 hours
• Urumqi via Jiayuguan and Turpan: takes about 24 hours
• Guangzhou: takes about 29 hours
• Xining: takes about 3-4 hours
• Beijing via Xi'an and Zhengzhou: takes about 25 hours
• Lhasa: takes about 30 hours