 | elgar |  | China 2009 |
Jul 29 2009
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"Once in a lifetime Part III - China"
These days we don't do packages unless they are incredibly cheap or we have no choice. We are much more confident and also nowadays we want the freedom to go at our own pace. Still this seemed the biggest challenge so far.
We had thought we might need guides and drivers but the more we researched, the more we became convinced that we could do this (fairly) independently. So many recounts of other travellers' experiences could not be wrong.
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Have been home 2 weeks now and we want to go again. It may be my short attention span but this seems like the best trip ever. Knowing that there are so many places in the world that we still want to see, it's unusual for us to start thinking about the return journey before we've finished... |
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On the morning of the last day of our hoilday we woke up to road noise and shouting - workmen start early here. Breakfast was so so or maybe it was just my mood. After checking out we were standing outside the anonymous airport hotel waiting for the shuttle. The day was beautiful, blue sky and... |
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If Chinese cities were a family everyone would see Beijing as the prim and proper older sister and Shanghai as the wild child. It's a young city with a history of being cosmopolitan and a bit naughty and it shows. Everything's really in your face here. There have been... |
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