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7 June 2025
Trip Overview This trip started with an intention to go to Europe for summer, to escape New Zealand’s wet and windy winter. We managed to get confirmed tickets on points from Taipei to Vienna and later on added budget airline flights around to various sunny spots, and then it kept growing. We would use a […]
23 April 2025
I leave Kuala Lumpur today for hometown, after a whole in the big city. The day was spent having lunch in Kampung Baru, a long massage and dinner with friends Faiz and Colin. I woke at 0615 to take the 0700 train to the airport. I did a lot of work at the landside lounge […]
20 April 2025
Final sightseeing It’s my last day in Xian and China today before a flight out after midnight. I had they day to kill and I chose to do that with E & BW. Kim went out with Dennis instead, to do car “things”. KL & M had departed this morning for Penang. The morning was […]
19 April 2025
Transport to Huashan Today we have a trip to Huashan. I had booked the entrance and cablecar tickets as a combo with return transport from the city to Huashan which is about 2h away each way. We had the choice of meeting at a set pick-up point or from our hotel. But because our […]
18 April 2025
Main site Today we revisit the Terracotta Warriors outside town, combined with the Huaqing Palace near to the warriors site. It is possible to do it by public transport but some of us decided it would be eaiser getting a private car. It turned out to be a great decision as it was a long […]
17 April 2025
Moving to Xian Today we take the bullet train from Chongqing West to Xian North, a journey of less than 5h30. We took two taxis to the station for the 1057 departure. As it was a big station, getting there an hour before hand gave us less waiting time than at previous stations. Because […]
16 April 2025
Above: Chongqing skyline in the background. Yangtze River Cableway We wanted to take the cable car across the Yangtze during our stay in Chongqing, to get a good overview of the city. To avoid the crowd, we started early and was aided by the fact we were 5 mins away from the cable car […]
15 April 2025
Sleeper train to Chongqing After four nights at Wulingyuan (or six nights at the Wulingyuan and Zhangjiajie area) we depart for Chongqing. Our now regular driver picked us up after breakfast at 0930 to take us to Zhangjiajie West station. It was our sixth time at the station having done trips from there to Furong […]
14 April 2025
Glass Bridge Having explored the main parts of Zhangjiajie National Park, we move on to explore the areas slightly further away. Specifically, this morning we go to the Grand Canyon, starting with a ride with our friendly driver whom we’ve had on-and-off for the last couple of days. We departed at 0730 and were at […]
13 April 2025
Bailong Elevator We had read horror stories of people queueing for two hours to get on the Bailong Elevator. We were determined not to do that and started early, getting to the park entrance before 0700 and onto the first buses bound for Bailong. There was actually a short elevator ride to take us to […]