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China 2009

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Jul 29 2009

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"Once in a lifetime Part III - China"

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Many years ago I saw an advert for a guided package tour to China. It really appealed to me, the only problem being that it returned on the 1st day of term. So that idea faded away. However, years and many destinations later we were in Brisbane airport and saw an exhibition of photos of Chinese locations. Something in the beauty and exoticism that the images conjured up made us decide that we would indeed make that trip.

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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	14. Home Sep 10 2009, 07:23 PMBrighton, United Kingdom 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...

	13. Beijing again Aug 28 2009, 09:49 AMBeijing, China24 photos 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...

	12. Shanghai delights Aug 24 2009, 09:47 AMShanghai, China17 photos 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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