Overall what we did: 12 days split into: 3 days in Beijing, 2 days in Xi’an, 1 day in Hangzhou, 2 days in Suzhou and 4 days in Shanghai from 11 October 2014 to 24 October 2014 Favourite part of China: Would have to be climbing the Great Wall. The food was also pretty good, …
Today was a fun day. As our final full day in Shanghai, we decided to head exploring north and try to find the old district called Nanxing on the northern end of the Shanghai subway line. We didn’t have a problem with the subway, but we realised after we arrived at the final station that …
Today was our first proper day by ourselves wandering around Shanghai. We spent the day wandering around the Nanjing Street area as well as going for a walk through the Peoples Park in Shanghai. The air pollution was pretty bad today, so we didn’t move too quickly or far (was very glad to have a …
Today was an interesting day. We opted to join the rest of the tour group for an optional day of touring around Shanghai. In the morning we were on the Maglev Train reaching speeds of 400 km which was rather amusing. It was funny to see members of our tour group running around and screaming …
After a bit of a bus ride from Suzhou, we were in Shanghai! Our first stop was the Bund to have a bit of a view of the city skyline (fortunately it was a nice clear day with beautiful blue skies) before heading off to the Shanghai Museum to spend some time wandering around it’s …
Our journey from South Korea to Nepal would be a long one, with approximately 33 hours spent either in airports or on planes flying from Seoul to Shanghai (where we would enjoy a 10 hour lay over) before flying from Shanghai to Kunming (for another lay over) and then finally from Kunming to Kathmandu. Although …