Tag Archives : China

China 2011: highlights and lowlights


This tour of China has been just go, go, go. I have had no time to write or process what has happened, what I’ve seen, or how I’ve felt about the whole experience. So I will just pick out the lowlights and the highlights. Lowlights The flight to get to Beijing – I’ve written about how awful that experience was,…

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The Great Wall of China is all that! Travelling Homebody says it should be on everyone's bucket list.

My itinerary for China…


I’m doing a Travel Indochina (Insider Journeys) tour of China. I travelled with them for my first ever trip overseas to Vietnam, and I couldn’t be happier with how that adventure went. I was such a nervous Nelly! So without further ado, here is my itinerary for China…  my second overseas trip ever… and the obligatory map. I’m so excited! Your turn!…

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China, in T minus 4 weeks


I am just about to go on my second adventure of a lifetime: China. I had no real interest in going to China – on a slow boat or otherwise – until I went to Vietnam last year. While I was there, the further north we went, the more Chinese it got, and the more fascinated I became with Chinese…

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