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CHINA | Sunday, 20 May 2007 | Views [579]
If my memory serves me correctly The Summer Palace in Chengde is four times bigger than that in Beijing. My book tells me it covers 100,000 squares metres. Whereas the Summer Palace in Beijing dominates its surroundings by being bright, colourful with ... Read more >
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CHINA | Friday, 18 May 2007 | Views [541]
Had a really good journey from Datong to Pingyao as was travelling on a train where loads of people from my Datong tour were on the same train carriage. I came to Pingyao for no other reason than David (Israeli guy from Emei Shan) said that his ... Read more >
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CHINA | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 | Views [620]
Time was starting to become a valuable commodity, so I booked an organised tour with the CITS to visit the Hanging Temples and the Datong caves in one day. This was by far the best tour I have been on in China. For one, it was full of English speaking ... Read more >
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CHINA | Tuesday, 15 May 2007 | Views [720]
I arrived in Beijing via a very short flight from Shanghai. Met loads of lovely people staying at my hostel. The hostel itself whilst clean, it's staff were absolutely shit because of that this hostel was the worst I have stayed in during my two ... Read more >
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CHINA | Saturday, 12 May 2007 | Views [918]
Shanghai was absolutely wicked, I was picked up at the train station by Wolfgang and asked what I wanted to do during my stay. I gave him a list of everything I’d read about on my long train ride over and told him my one wish was not to have to ... Read more >
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CHINA | Monday, 7 May 2007 | Views [906]
I stayed in the only hostel in Luoyang near the train station. Unfortunately it was slap bang in the middle of the red light district, it took me two days to work this out mind, so I figured if I'd lived with it for that long I can handle it for a couple ... Read more >
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CHINA | Saturday, 28 Apr 2007 | Views [1047] | Comments [2]
We arrived at Chongqing early. Let me say now, there is no other reason to visit Chongqing than to go on the river cruise. Do you yourself a favour and arrive no earlier than a few hours before your cruise departure time as this place is nothing special.... Read more >
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CHINA | Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 | Views [442] | Comments [2]
I packed lightly for a few days excursion during which I intended to visit the Buddha in Lesham and climb a holy mountain aka Emei Shan before returning to Chengdu. Lesham was thronging with Chinese tourists, the queue down the cliff from his head ... Read more >
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CHINA | Thursday, 12 Apr 2007 | Views [448] | Comments [6]
I came to Zhongdian hoping to secure a permit and plane ticket to Tibet. To cut a long story short decided not to bother. This place is like the wild west. It is much smaller than Lijiang and absolutely freezing. It was snowing yesterday. I'm wearing ... Read more >
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CHINA | Wednesday, 11 Apr 2007 | Views [485] | Comments [2]
I have met so many lovely people in this town I almost never want to leave. The centre of town is called old town but they seem to have trashed everything that was old and rebuilt it in the old style. Every building is identical. Every one is a shop ... Read more >
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CHINA | Friday, 6 Apr 2007 | Views [436]
Kunming was never on my itinerary but I came on a whim after a few people told me it was lovely and worth visiting. Took a soft sleeper on a train to Kunming - a 22 hour epic. The trains here are huge at least twice the length of one of our intercity ... Read more >
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CHINA | Sunday, 1 Apr 2007 | Views [1110] | Comments [4]
Travelling from Yangshuo to Guilin I was expecting the bus to stop at a bus station and was looking out for said bus station when the lady conductor unloaded my suitcase at a random street corner and told me to get off the bus, in that order. OK so I ... Read more >
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HONG KONG | Saturday, 24 Mar 2007 | Views [370]
Got the visa after queuing for a couple of hours in the freezing cold. After a fifteen hour flight with a stop over in Doha, Qatar I finally arrived in Hong Kong. Not much to say about Hong Kong except fantastic for shopping crap for sightseeing, ... Read more >
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