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Arriving back in Beijing by train I thought it would be easy to get home by just taking the subway to Wudakao, though there was no subway access from this train station. I asked around and someone helped me to take a bus to the nearest subway station. None of the bus signs are in [...]

Xi’an – facts and figures Xi’an is more than 3,000 years old and was known as Chang’an in ancient times. For 1,000 years, the city was the capital for 13 dynasties, and a total of 73 emperors ruled here. Xi’an is the undisputed root of Chinese civilization having served as the capital city for the [...]

I was fed up with my train ticket being stolen and the tickets for the upcoming 10 days being sold out, solution: book a flight. So that’s what I did. I flew to Shanghai Hongqiao (SHA) Airport with China Southern Airlines. My flight had 30 minutes delay. On the airplane there was a 23 year [...]

Today I uploaded a selection of the pictures I made in Shanghai and Xi’an, China. You can find the pictures here: Shanghai pictures in normal view Shanghai pictures displayed on Google maps Shanghai pictures in Google Earth Xi’an pictures in normal view Xi’an pictures displayed on Google maps Xi’an pictures in Google Earth

Summer palace A sight that surely should not be skipped is the summer palace, located northwest of the city, easiest reachable by bus. The summer palace is include on the World Heritage list since 1998. It declared the Summer Palace “a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water [...]

Beijing – which literally means Northern Capital – is the capital of People’s Republic of China, and also its second largest city (estimated around 18 million people) after Shanghai. It was also the seat of the Ming and Qing dynasty emperors until the formation of a republic in 1911. Beijing is the political, educational and [...]