Lanzhou family trips have gone crazy! These 3 pitfalls make me want to ride a camel home

Sisters! Bravely exploring the Northwest with a 6-year-old, sunbathing by the Yellow River until we looked like beef noodles, laughing like emojis in museums... Tearfully organizing a 4-day survival guide! After reading, you can buy three boxes less of bottled water💦

♦️Deadly itinerary (recommended to engrave into your DNA!)
Day 1⃣️: Dash from Zhongchuan Airport 👉 Provincial Museum chasing the Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow 👉 Playing "mud monkey fishing" by the Yellow River
Day 2⃣️: Be a mural expert at Dunhuang Art Museum 👉 Tear magazines at Reader’s Building 👉 Freeze into an ice pop at Santai Pavilion
Day 3⃣️: Eat sand at Yellow River Stone Forest 👉 Feed crows at Yongtai Ancient City 👉 Night market spicy enough to make three generations cry
Day 4⃣️: Climb Bingling Temple until your legs break 👉 Watch Mandarin Duck Hotpot at Liujiaxia 👉 Shoe-throwing battle at the airport

✅ Gansu Provincial Museum
The Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow really makes you laugh! The kid stared at the bronze horse and asked nonstop: "Is it stepping on an alien spaceship?" 🛸 Bought a little camel at the cultural shop, stuffed it with beef jerky and said it was to "feed the Silk Road"...

✅ Yellow River Mother Sculpture
Even real moms would be jealous! The kid insisted on feeding the sculpture mom chips, and the security uncle laughed so hard he got eight-pack abs 🗿 Played with water guns by the Yellow River, but got soaked by waves and turned into "soup noodles"

✅ Santai Pavilion Night View
Lanzhou Manhattan is no joke! The wind on the mountaintop was strong enough to blow off fake eyelashes, the kid hugged a street lamp and shouted: "I want to be the stabilizing needle of the sea!" 🌃 The phone can’t capture even one ten-thousandth of the shock, the kid drew an "artificial galaxy" with a glow stick...

💣 Blood-spitting pitfalls to avoid:
1⃣️ Don’t queue on-site at the Provincial Museum! Book three days in advance, we almost turned into beef jerky under the scorching sun
2⃣️ Don’t go to Zhongshan Bridge on weekends! So crowded the kid rode on my neck shouting "Mom is a giraffe"
3⃣️ At Zhengning Road Night Market, trust only the white-bearded grandpa for milk egg fermented rice wine! Other vendors are cheap copies with sweetness three streets away
4⃣️ Don’t bring a stroller on the Yellow River cableway! Two-hour queue for a 5-minute ride, the kid twisted like a pretzel in the cabin

🍜 Foodie red and black list:
✔️ Mogooyan beef noodles: spicy and fragrant, the kid secretly sipped the soup, blowing snot bubbles into balloons 🎈
✔️ Nanguan Ethnic Street niangpi (cold skin noodles): sour and spicy enough to make picky eaters voluntarily eat more, invented the "snot mixed rice" cult eating method
✔️ Fangha sweet baby milk tea: the kid drank until hiccupping, said it was "dancing Northwest cola"
✖️ "Century-old apricot peel tea" at scenic spots entrance: diluted so much it made you question life, so sour the kid’s facial features ran away

📸 Photo spots:
1⃣️ Side face of Yellow River Mother Sculpture (shoot dreamy photos with bubble machine)
2⃣️ White Pagoda Mountain red wall (wear Hanfu for ancient style time travel photos)
3⃣️ Liujiaxia viewing platform (hold bottled water to shoot yellow-green Mandarin duck hotpot)
4⃣️ Yongtai Ancient City ruins (wear straw hat to shoot desert lone wolf)

🏡 Accommodation red and black list:
✔️ Lanzhou Center Suite Holiday Inn: gives kids a mini archaeology set, bathtub big enough for three kids to swim
✔️ Yellow River loft homestay: floor-to-ceiling windows to watch sheepskin rafts drift by, kid said it’s like "floating rice balls on water"
✖️ Some internet-famous starry sky room: said to watch stars but actually saw smog, soundproofing so bad you can hear the neighbor snoring

⚠️ Life-saving gear:
✔️ Children’s sun protection face shield (UV so strong even shadows get sunburned)
✔️ Foldable toilet seat (dry toilets make kids perform aerial squats)
✔️ Military-grade butt cream (desert camel ride makes your butt blossom)