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Dali

Dali is an ancient walled city, in that respect it's very similar to Pingyao but on a much larger scale. It's a very pretty maze of little streets full of street stalls & shops situated amongst the traditional Chinese style buildings and we spent most days & nights simply walking, taking in...

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mich_and_dan_moors on August 1, 2011 from Dali, China

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Kunming

Kunming was a great city just to wander around & hang out really.....there are no major tourist sights as such, but a real big bonus was that the temperature there was so cool which was a real welcome. We stayed in the area close to the University so it had a great studenty/cafe culture feel,...

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 27, 2011 from Kunming, China

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It's all about the Pandas ;-)

We finished our cruise at Chongching, and then made our way by train to Chengdu……………to see the PANDAS!!!!!! I was more than a bit excited, Danny less so, but it just had to be done. I was a bit worried about being disappointed by the whole experience, and worried about how the Pandas may have...

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 23, 2011 from Chengdu, China

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Yangzi river cruise

We took an overnight train from Xian to Wuhan, and arriving the next morning tired & hungry it proved quite a challenge to find the bus we needed to catch to Yichang. We were a bit panicky as we had to get to our boat that evening, and our best attempts at speaking Chinese was not helping....

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 18, 2011 from Yichang, China

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Xian & the Terracotta Army

To see the Terracotta Warriors in Xian was probably THE main reason why Dan wanted to visit China. And after seeing them it's now officially the best thing Danny has ever seen. Ever!!! To be honest I wasn't expecting to be as wowed with them as I was. I was looking forward to seeing 'a few...

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 13, 2011 from Xian'e, China

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Pingyao

A really interesting place, it's like a mini chinese temple city walled within a city………very traditional & pretty, but actually not much to see or do other than enjoy the surroundings. Which we did. Even our hostel was very traditional, as they all seemed to be, and had a central 'courtyard'...

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 10, 2011 from Pingyao, China

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Louyang

It was a long journey from Suzhou. We briefly went back to Beijing then had to fly to Shenzhen, go across the border into HK and then cross back into China within the hour, catch another plane to Zhengzhou & then catch an evening 4 hour bus to Louyang arriving at almost midnight……….and all...

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 7, 2011 from Luoyang, China

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Suzhou

Being just a hour away on the train from Shanghai we decided to explore Suzhou which is famed for it's gardens. We were expecting to arrive at a small village, and looked forwards to leisurely wandering the streets………..however after about 2 hours of walking and realising we were absolutely...

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mich_and_dan_moors on July 5, 2011 from Suzhou, China

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happy day

happy day ???

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jiao11 on June 29, 2011 from Guangzhou, China

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Shanghai City

Next stop Shanghai. We'd booked a hotel in a great spot - it was just minutes from the River Bund so when we arrived in the evening we just wandered around and found ourselves overlooking the night view. It was just fabulous.....so straight away we knew we'd enjoy it here. We'd arranged...

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mich_and_dan_moors on June 29, 2011 from Shanghai, China

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