China Travel Stories

Exploring the Wild Great Wall

Date: 2009-7-29 3:33:00 by susan Tags: Beijing Travel Great Wall Adventure Wild Great Wall

"You are not a man of courage if you don't climb the Great Wall", as a Chinese saying goes. Last week I did really become a brave girl to climb the Great Wall. The choice of climbing the Great Wall was really a kind of challenge for me. I never thought I could be this brave. The experience of Great Wall adventure told me that I can do much more than I imagine, if I can be brave enough

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A Beijing Taxi

Date: 2008-12-9 2:48:00 by chinawander Tags: Beijing taxi

Volumes could be written about how to judge a city and its people by a simple taxi ride. A traveler could learn a lot about the rich inner narrative going on the lives of New Yorkers by the uninterested yet polite taxi drivers that make you feel like a friend of a friend is driving you to school on Monday morning. The friendly and helpful drivers of Prague are among the world's most dish

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(3)by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-26 3:00:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong Chengde

13 June - Datong

We waked up very early and in less than an hour of flight we arrived in Datong. Datong is a city of 3 million inhabitants, important for its coalmines and therefore a polluted city, but it is famous above all for the Yungang Grottoes (literally "Cloud Ridge Caves"), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In airport we met our likeable guide, Joan and the driver with a

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(2) by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-20 21:25:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong and Chengde

11 June - Xian

We waked up very early because we had to catch the flight to Xian at 7.20 a.m.. The departure was from the new Terminal 3, constructed for the Olympic Games and planned by the English architect Foster. The terminal is spectacular and efficient. It’s enormous, but spaces are well organized and you can’t get lost inside. Our flight leaved nearly 10 minutes befor

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(1) by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-20 21:09:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong and Chengde

Hallo! I wish tell you about my travel in China, It’s my way to repay the internet community, for all helpful information I have found in internet when I started to planning this travel.

Planning the travel

Why China? Travel to China has been from long time my dream and now I decided at last. My wife and my son (sixteen), obviously have been enthusiast. Having only 12 days

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