our view

We are on the 18th floor of the Grand Soluxe Hotel Gansu/Sunshine Plaza Hotel in Lanzhou.
Depending on the haze, we can see the mountains in the distance.

You would think that being 18 floors up would lessen the sound of the traffic down below. It does not! We hear honking and beeping and squeaky brakes any time we have the window open - and we have the window open a lot because the hotel is kept extremely hot. We can't figure out the thermostat (everything we tried made it hotter in here!).

I think that in China, your horn automatically goes off whenever someone else steps on their brakes! Traffic lanes and lights seem to be more suggestion and less law, and the traffic cop in the middle of the intersection we go through often has to be the bravest person in all of China!