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
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