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Xi’An and the Terracotta Warriors

Xi’An and the Terracotta Warriors

  Roundabout thousandonehundred kilometers and only five and a half hours on the train after we had  left Beijing, we arrived in Xi’An. To cover this distance would have taken at least 24 hours on the Transsiberian Train. Luckily, we took China’s high speed bullet-train, called “G-Train”, which flew with 300 kilometres an hour past big and growing cities that no one has ever heard of who hasn’t been to China. Xi’An is just another eight and a half-million-people-metropolis. There…

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Hiking the Great Wall

Hiking the Great Wall

  I remember the host of a tea house in the Japan Alps, who explained to us why he didn’t like Chinese tourists too much. They would come in large busses and numbers, make a lot of noise, take a lot of pictures and set off, never going beyond the main attraction. So here we are now, in the motherland of mass tourism. And clearly one main attraction not to be missed is the Great Wall. After already having experienced first hand what touristy…

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Beijing

Beijing

Beijing was our first impression of China. To us it seemed more like three cities in one. There is the modern Beijing where people live and work, it’s very alive, a bit scruffy, busy, loud and quite chaotic, especially the traffic. Always watch out for traffic, they’re out to get you. Beijing is not at all as organised as we thought it would be, at least on the outside, can’t really say what its like working there. Public transportation is…

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