China Travel Blogs - Page 7

we leave the Hotel after a good breakfast and with our guide go to Zhujiajiao 朱家角, a small town with ancient buildings, waterays and bridges.Still very very hot - but we manage.We have a nice short ride in a small boat.Chinese lunch again with good tasting shrimps - but the Letizia in the eve…

 Always need to be early, so you get chance to see nice view, otherwise, you would be drawn in an ocean of people. Subway system is not good in Beijing, need to walk a long long way underground. If you have old people with you can't walk too convenient, better take other way. And so…

@The 9 Hr bus ride from hell Here are your options to get from Guangzhou (Guangdong Province) to Guilin (Guanxi Province). Ranked by cost :$ - 9 Hr bus ride from Hell (170Y)$$ - 13 Hour Sleeper Train The price ranges from 160Y to 320Y for 5 different classes. 1- Hurt your ass hard seat class2- Les…

the children there especailly in small country side are very nice, they wanted to communicat with you, but they cant, they try to use their body language to show something to you.  we brought some pen for them, many children around you, watching you by their puerility eyes. you will feel that …

This is my adventures in China in the summer of 2008. I spent 37 days in China traveling around with my brother. I am slowly, very slowly adding pictures and journals about what we did. So far this includes the Great Wall at Mutianyu, Sanjiang and Shaolin Temple. Eventually it will cover everything we did.

Our trip in China in november. From Beijing to Beijing.

NI HAO from China everyone!!!!!!!!  What a great feeling it was to be crossing into this unknown land!!  Didn't think we'd actually be able to visit this country, since it had been such a hassle getting the Chinese visa!!!  Anyway, knowing that we only had 15 days to visit this…

The day's agenda included: Lama Temple (Yonghe Gong)Donghuamen Night Market (Donghuamen Yeshi)

We worked in the morning, but then I left the office in the afternoon because Jimmy had to have his laptop configured for two new software packages. Since that would take a few hours, I didn't want to stay in the office because Ami offered to take Joe and me to the Zhongshan Mountain National …

Had been on a short Work trip to Tianjin in china the 3rd biggest city aparently, not to much on the front of touristy thingy but this aparently changed not to long ago since it is part of the olympic city's. The best thing of course  in tianjin with out any dought is the food!! how amazing -…

So If you have ever traveled abroad especially it seems in China that weather never cooperates. So I was lying home ended up huge storm rolled in at Dalian where I live then 3 hours later when that cleared Beijing got the same storm. So we had gotten on the plane and all that then after an 8 ho…

I spent three weeks in March of 2007 traveling through China. Recently, a friend planning a trip there asked if I had any advice, so I drafted these tips for him.

after the forbidden city i wanted to "get real" and skip the tours to the great wall (which often stop for jade factory shopping tour emprisonment on the way) and do it the public transportation way according to lonely planet i wanted to go to huanghua but ended up in mutianyu every tour started …

We landed in Hangzhou about 10pm. Not sure how the taxi works here, one man approached us, telling us he could bring us to our hotel for CNY150. Charlie had doubt about him and decided to walk out of the terminal looking for a proper taxi line. My Chinese language comes in handy when I asked the gu…

Ni hao, I'm once again backfilling entries because I've fallen further and further behind in this journal. Today is actually June 15, and I've been in China exactly 1 week. I spent the 8 - 13 in Beijing, staying at Peking Downtown Backpackers Hostel in a hutong alley called Nan…