xining hotels Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/xining-hotels Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Xining Map http://travelsfinders.com/xining-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/xining-map.html#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2017 06:21:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=231546 Altitude: 2275m/7467ft. Area: 350sq.km/135sq. miles Population: 577,000 (conurbation 910,000) Xining lies in the north-east of Qinghai province, on the Huangshui river, at 101°42’E and 36°35’N. There are train, bus and air links with Lanzhou, the provincial capital, which is 200km/124 miles away. There are also flights to Beijing (5Y2 hours) and Taiyuan (3Y2 hours). Xining came into being more than 2200 years ago. Thanks to its strategically favourable situation – one of the few roads to Tibet passed close by it was for centuries a fortress town of considerable importance. In the transitional period between the Qin and Han dynasties,

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