Tag: china
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Chengdu: Big flavours, big bears & an even bigger Buddha
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It was another long shlep to Chengdu from Zhangjiajie, but we were now China train professionals and even factored in a midway train change with nay bother. Crushed it! Arriving at our hostel, wayyyy past our bed time meant there was plenty of room for confusion. And by the shiny lengths of Merlins beard did…
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The heady heights of Tianmen Mountain
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What’s better than one day of mega hiking? A lie in! Ha – no I jest, we did another day of mega hiking. This time up to the heady heights of Tianmen Mountain. Our brilliant organisational skills struck once again as we got a DiDi to the cableway, where we were told we could only…
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Zhangjiajie National Forest Park: The Real Avatar
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After a very long – although first class and comfortable (they fancy!) – 7 hour train from Guilin North, we finally arrived in our next stop of Zhangjiajie. Here we were seeking to prove the words of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – baby there ain’t no mountain high enough. You will later discover that…
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Guilin to Yangshuo – Cruising the Li River
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We bid a fond farewell to the very pretty Aroma Teahouse and hopped back in the car with Henry and Gao, ready for our 4 Star Li River cruise – the second part of the experience package we’d booked on Viator. Henry once again delivers on the facts – a dream for a couple of…
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Guilin & Longji Rice Terraces
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Hailed as one of the top rice terraces in China, a visit to Longji was a must on our Chinese travel itinerary. Because there were a few things we wanted to do in the Guilin/Yangshao area, we decided to go for a tour on this occasion, which included an English speaking guide, transfers and multiple…
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Ge’s Fairy Village – Gexianshan
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After a final stomp – this time with burgeoning backpacks – up the stairway to breakfast, we waved goodbye to Wangxian Valley and set off to our next destination, Gexianshan. It was a 2.5 hour Didi taxi ride, which we decided to split into 2 due to an uncertainty about the possibility of a bathroom…
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Weird & wonderful Wangxian
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Today was a travel day to a town called Wangxian Valley Town, a place I had seen on an Instagram reel once and apparently this was enough for me to book accommodation here. Zach was somehow on board with this at the time (he was still working while I was doing ‘the planning’), but was…
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Shanghai Days & Nights…
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We made it! After 12 hours of fidgety flight time, not much sleep and many games of Monopoly Deal (a packing essential), we arrived at Shanghai Pudong Airport at the brain-fog inducing time of 5.45am. It was a nice, comfortable flight with Air China from London Gatwick, and had all the usual amenities – inflight…
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Meet the awkward travellers…
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Hello! We’re Hollie & Zach, a couple in our 30s, who both recently finished our jobs in television and software development, respectively, to travel the world. We’ve been together nearly 2 years so thought we’d test the relationship to the max – by living out of 2 rucksacks whilst shlepping across the globe with all…
The Awkward Travellers 