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As circumstances in life have flowed around, we've decided on rather short notice to go to China for six weeks.
All that we know for sure is that we will land in Hong Kong on March 8th, 2007 and will fly back out of Beijing on April 19th.
So in this time of course, we have to get to know the 3 big cities (HK, Shanghai, Beijing). And we can't miss the big tourist draws that look suspiciously like classical chinese landscape paintings (Guilin/Li River, Yangtze River/3 Gorges, and Huang Shan). And we really want to see the (relatively) unspoilt interior provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan. Oh, and we're told that Xi'an is "necessary" to see. This would, of course require a pace of travel that we could never keep up for a month and a half.
Since it is still winter in the North we are definitely planning to work our way up from the South, all the way down the Yangtze, then to the North over time. The thought as stands is to start in HK, either take the train to Guilin then fly to Yunnan or just skip it and fly straight to Yunnan, take the train to Sichuan through the mountains, take a cruise down the Yangtze from there, go to Shanghai via Huang Shan, the either go to Xi'an (thence to Beijing) or just straight to Beijing. I expect all of that to be jumbled and truncated as we go.
I actually really believe that the point of this trip is to be completely overwhelmed... it's supposed to be a punctuation between phases of my life.
Tara's mileage may vary.
--Spencer
All that we know for sure is that we will land in Hong Kong on March 8th, 2007 and will fly back out of Beijing on April 19th.
So in this time of course, we have to get to know the 3 big cities (HK, Shanghai, Beijing). And we can't miss the big tourist draws that look suspiciously like classical chinese landscape paintings (Guilin/Li River, Yangtze River/3 Gorges, and Huang Shan). And we really want to see the (relatively) unspoilt interior provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan. Oh, and we're told that Xi'an is "necessary" to see. This would, of course require a pace of travel that we could never keep up for a month and a half.
Since it is still winter in the North we are definitely planning to work our way up from the South, all the way down the Yangtze, then to the North over time. The thought as stands is to start in HK, either take the train to Guilin then fly to Yunnan or just skip it and fly straight to Yunnan, take the train to Sichuan through the mountains, take a cruise down the Yangtze from there, go to Shanghai via Huang Shan, the either go to Xi'an (thence to Beijing) or just straight to Beijing. I expect all of that to be jumbled and truncated as we go.
I actually really believe that the point of this trip is to be completely overwhelmed... it's supposed to be a punctuation between phases of my life.
Tara's mileage may vary.
--Spencer
2 Comments:
I am totally unimpressed with your "lack of a plan". Listing more than 10 destinations and a sequence does not constitute no plan. It makes me doubt that you are actually "unemployed."
Boa viagem!
一路平安！
(yi lu ping an) - may your road be peaceful :)
Thanks for the vicarious adventure,
Amelia + Jim
(Jim says that the big words are all from Amelia. He's not sure how vicars have their adventures...)
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