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Mon, 8 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [302]
In the west we have a saying - "All roads lead to Rome". The Chinese these days have the same saying, but I have been told that in older times, the Chinese equivalent was "All roads lead to Beijing". For me on this day, that seemed apt. ... Read more >
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Sun, 7 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [300]
It was an early start, and the sky was still a dark slate gray. The plan was a simple one, take a taxi to the train station. For whatever reason, the taxi driver decided to negotiate. We should wait twenty minutes first, and he would ... Read more >
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Sat, 6 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [362]
Vast, grand, cavernous. Our train pulled into Shanghai's Hongqiao station. Newly built, but next to the old airport, Hongqiao is typical of the probably dozens of new, huge, railway stations being built across the country. China's central ... Read more >
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Fri, 5 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [671]
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then perhaps a seven thousand mile train journey should start with a metaphorical one hour hop from Hangzhou to Shanghai.
It was arguably a Chinese train that brought me to Singapore, ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [484]
SHANGHAI MUST BE THE PRIDE OF THE PEOPLES' REPUBLIC. It is the largest city in China, a major port and the up-and-coming financial center of the country. Everything about Shanghai has been intimately planned, from the high-speed MagLev rail ... Read more >
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 23 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [636]
WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE LONGI TERRACED RICE paddies, also known as the Dragon’s Backbone. We were hoping they would be as picturesque as those we saw in northern Vietnam on that cold and rainy day in Sapa four years ago. But after a two-... Read more >
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [692]
“NOBODY GOES THERE ANYMORE, IT’S TOO CROWDED.” Yogi Berra could have been talking about any tourist destination in China but it is especially true of the Li River cruises from Guilin to Yangshuo. There is no China Through ... Read more >
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [825]
CHENGDU IS A MODERN CITY. JANE TOLD US it has grown enormously her 24 years into one of the five largest in China. She is the best guide we have had so far, the kind of kid you’d like to adopt, and she is full of insights into Chengdu.... Read more >
Mon, 18 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1152]
OF THE 18 MILLION RESIDENTS OF CHENGDU ABOUT 100 are pandas. In fact, giant pandas are the main reason tourists visit Chengdu. Not only is it the home of the Chengdu Panda Reserve, it is only two hours from the Bifengxia Panda breeding center, ... Read more >
Sat, 16 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 13 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [435]
WHAT COULD I POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN THINKING? That Tibet was another Nepal or Bhutan? Wasn’t Lhasa the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, paradise on the top of the world? True, the Dali Lama hasn’t seen Lhasa since 1959 — but, ... Read more >
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 12 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [571]
WE PLAYED WITH TOY SOLDIERS WHEN WE WERE KIDS. At the age of thirteen, Emperor Qin Shi Huang created an army of life-sized terracotta soldiers more than two-thousand years ago. An assembly line of seven hundred thousand men created 6000 ... Read more >
Mon, 11 Aug 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1117]
LAST NIGHT’S THUNDER STORM RINSED SOME OF THE DIRT from the air and we could actually see blue sky this morning. Our itinerary called for a visit to the “hutong districts,” the original residential areas of Beijing. While ... Read more >
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