China Travel Stories

Taxi ride in China

Date: 2008-5-9 1:59:00 by catherine Tags: taxi ride

Taxi rides, taxi rides and more taxi rides… If you're a world traveler, then you've probably heard people complaining about taxi drivers ripping you off. I've heard these complaints in Bangkok, New Delhi, Hong Kong and Beijing. I've heard these complaints in almost in every country I've visited. Everyone seems to think their city has the worst drivers around. Well, I don't know who has

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A Visit to Lake Jingpo

Date: 2008-4-15 22:02:00 by david Tags: Lake Jingpo

The easiest and fastest way to get to Lake Jiingpo is to fly from a major city like Beijing or Shanghai but it is also possible to reach Lake Jingpo by road from Beijing. Journeying to Lake Jingbo by road had the added bonus of traveling through some of the most beautiful scenery in this part of the world. Other attractions on the way include the food at the small roadside restaurants and frien

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Dirty Mining Region to Paradise under the Heaven

Date: 2008-3-31 20:51:00 by gina Tags: China Tour China travel

This trip was full of contrasts – from the rather dirty areas of Datong-Pingyao to the very scenic sections later.

Datong

Very smoggy, in a huge coal area with around 10,000 coal mines, poor and dingy miners villages with the remains of ancient fortifications just dotted around, eg old beacon towers, or bits of old wall, built of rammed mud, crumbling now

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