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What is there to do in Shenzhen during one's China vacations ? The answer is very little. It is not a tourist town. It is a town for business and manufacturing. But the town is built on the ocean, so there are several beaches around its edges.
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So, after my last post of my China vacations I headed out and saw The Forbidden City (and had a group of girls ask if they could have their pictures taken with me...I was like a white celebrity. It was weird, but they said I was beautiful, so I was ...

So at 6 am on Thursday I set off for my China vacations . So far this has involved a 3 hour car drive, a 5 hour wait at Heathrow, a 6 hour flight to Doha, a 10 minute wait at Doha, an 8 hour flight to Beijing, an hour long wait at Beijing, an hour b...

Exactly Lijiang located in high land area between Tibet and northern Yunnan. It became one of those China vacations top options on destinations priority list for China tour since the entire area began to open to tourists in early 90's. Highlights to ...

And we'll definitely be recommending it to anyone else who's interested! Being located deep in southern China (at least it feels like it), we got here by overnight train from Hong Kong during our China vacations . Walking through customs between Hon...

Shenzhen is green city. It is a city full of parks and recreation areas. One of the nicest of the parks is close to Sea’s apartment. It has the usual walking paths, exercise equipment, paved aerobic and dancing areas. Everything is clean, neat...

During the run up to Lunar New Year the government of Shenzhen declared a culture week in the city. Programs and events were held in the parks across the city. One of the events was a program in the Shenzhen Garden and Flower Expo Park .

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A cool area for hiking or backpacking on your China vacations . The best season would be spring or summer. Amazing landscape, fresh air and some local special flavor all give you real life experience. Everything is so so true and simple.

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From Chiwan Village we took a bus to Shekou, or Land of Foreigners and Rich People. Because of the large number of foreigners that live in the Shekou area there are many western restaurants to choose from if you are willing to pay the exorbitant pri...

Last week’s Valentine’s Day was a big event here in Shanghai during my China vacations . Shops were selling chocolates and red roses and offering special promotions on underwear and nightgowns! Restaurants and bars had Valentine’s ...

Yesterday I arose at 7am and realized I had beaten the sun up. Why, oh, why am I doing this? Oh, right. I've been wanting to take tai chi since I got here on my China vacations but had been unable to find any group to join. My friend, Harry, had be...

Xi'an's food, generally speaking, is served in large portions, is inexpensive and most of dishs have their own story, one of the facts i learned from my China vacations .


On a downtown street, everywhere one can see signs, including...

Flew from ChongQing to Xian on our China vacations , and whilst the flying maybe quicker, the novelty of chinse airports has def worn off- nothing to do for 2 hours, followed by nothing to do on a plane for an hour! Arrived in to Xian fine, and amaz...

Beijing. The political and cultural heart of modern day China.


This is our first major stop of our China vacations since Shanghai where we plan to spend at least a week checking things out and wow, what a welcome. Our family friend, ...

Shenzhen is a city of parks. They are beautifully maintained, clean, and large. They have hiking trails, picnic areas, exercise areas and recreational facilities.


One day in January was declared Kite Day. People were encouraged to g...

You know, the day we were wallowing in self pity in the hostel room, feeling sick, it was warm and sunny outside. Today, feeling better and raring to go, the sky clouds over and the heavens open! Sod's law! We headed to the Bund, the famous stretch ...

Pingle Ancient Town——noisy place


Pingle Ancient Town is about 90 Km west of Chengdu and about 20 Km away from Qionglai City where you need to transfer from Chengdu to Pingle.The town was formed as early as West Han Dynas...

Hello! It has been a while since I have updated this blog so I decided to write about some food and a little bit about what I've been up to. In addition, last week I got a publication offer for my blog site through World of Chinese Magazine--a bilin...

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just a note to say i am safe and well in Xian on my China vacations ; well were actually leaving tonight for shanghai; we bound a 17 hour overnight train and get in about 11.30am





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After Kuala Lumpur, we flew to a Chinese city (only two hours away from Ningbo), Hangzhou. We heard a lot of hype about Hangzhou , as many of our coworkers have lived there and gave us some recommendations.


(By the way, flying in an...

Will we ever see blue sky again during our China vacations ? I think not. The fog seems to have followed us from Xi'an, or maybe it just covers the whole country. But Chengdu seems a lot less grim than Xi'an, probably because it has a lot more open ...

My China tours to Guilin and Yangshuo proved to be just the vacation I needed. I flew to Guilin from Wuxi and stayed in the Guilin Riverside Hotel. The room was HUGE but the bathroom was like a Cracker Jack box and the water was only luke warm. Gui...

So Sunday (the 25th) morning we schedules a bus to come pick us up at 10 am so we could head to our next destination on our China vacations . The bus shows up on time (bus means van in China) to pick up myself, Fito, and Elinor. Two Brits and a Scot ...

Feels so good to be back from my China vacations !!! I got home and immediately passed out after taking a hot shower! The next day (Tuesday) we woke up late and went to RT Mart to stock up on some essentials. I got laundry detergent and softner (I'd...

Today we walked the Xi'an city walls, which have been restored so you can walk all the way around the city on your China vacations . It took us 4 hours and it was pretty surreal because it was just me and Mark on our own for most of it, and you could...

hey guys its bin a while since the last/first blog of my China vacations , but its really hard to find the time to actually do these things! its bin very crazy in china. people know zero english and theres no signs/menus etc in english! its both int...

We woke up at around 7 in the morning to catch the metro to the Shanghai Railway Station. I definitely made the mistake of only bringing a duffle bag and a camera bag. If I could press rewind on life, I probably would have included a backpack in the...

Friday the 23rd- New Year break arrives!! We got out of class at 12 and immediately started packing for our trip. I used the fake North Face backpack I bought for 150 kuai and filled it up with as much as I could fit ! Definitely no hair products ma...

Shockingly, the stopover in Kunming on my China vacations from which were to catch our plane was totally straightforward and went according to plan. We got the wife of John (from the george and dragon in jinghong) to write down a hotel near the airp...

On our China vacations
We had foolishly thought that, with the subway system being so high-tech and organised, the trains would be too. We were wrong; it was utter chaos. Hundreds and hundreds and, yes, hundreds of people crammed into a train...