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China Trip: Beijing Summer Palace and Olympic Park
By November 12, 2012 2 Comments Read More →

China Trip: Beijing Summer Palace and Olympic Park

A trip to the Summer palace and Olympic Park is an easy do-it-yourself tour, there really is no need to pay a premium to take an organised excursion.   There is a subway line right to the park and the whole journey from the centre of Beijing (we were staying on the edge of the Forbidden […]

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Travel in China: Shanghai to Beijing by Train
By November 10, 2012 4 Comments Read More →

Travel in China: Shanghai to Beijing by Train

This Chinese train service has to be one of the most comfortable I have ever travelled on, apart from the frantic ‘queue’ getting on to it and the packed lounges at the station.  However, once we settled into our soft sleeper carriage the journey was a real dream, the rolling stock is new and the tracks level […]

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