Shanghai

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We arrived by bullet train into Shanghai from Wuhan our drop off destination from the Yangtze Cruise with horrible head colds (lovely image). We walked into the biggest train station i have ever seen, it was colossal. Shanghai is know as Paris of the...

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The Yangtze Cruise and Wuhan

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The Yangtze After two nights wandering through the winding streets of Lijiang, admiring the many tiny dogs and their lovely dresses (yes all the dogs wear dresses) we headed off to Chonqing for a night to prepare for our trip through the three gorges...

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Tiger Leaping Gorge (TLG) and Lijiang

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I won't bore you with the details of the many buses etc that we had to take to make our way down to Qiaotou where you begin the trek through TLG. With our rucksacks we tried to leg it past the government ticket office where they charge you to do the trek....

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Chengdu

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Chengdu The experiences of the China trains have so far being brilliant, relatively cheap transport with some amazing views from the carriage windows. The train from Xian to Chengdu was a little different; we met two lovely Chinese men who had minimal...

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Beijing/Xian

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So from where we left off, we visited the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square as our last adventure in Beijing. The square is the largest public square in the world. The square has two huge Soviet styled buildings to its east and west flanks with the Forbidden...

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Beijing

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Bangalore Compared to the rest on India this city is relatively sane!! It was a bit more organised and set up properly with the locals a lot more used to Western tourists. No pictures requested unfortunately. (Our egos are slowly coming back down to earth)....

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