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Hong Kong to Shanghai flight, maglev train ride into town at 380 KPH; met up with Shaun, Lisa, Matt (teaching in Kunshan). Short train to Kunshan, electric scooters and a terrible massage. Train back to Shanghai, buss to Huang Shan, "Yellow Mountain," 10 minutes late for cable car, hiked up in the dark, (7k 2,500vft (a defining moment), hotel at the top. Cable car down, suss back to Shanghai, overnight train to Xi'an (Terra-cotta warriors, Muslim Chinese food). Overnight train to Beijing (Forbidden City and Hu Tong (on X-mas day), Summer Palace, Olympic Blds (like the Bird's nest), Great wall). Morning, 5:00, taxi to airport, split ways (Tye flys to Guangzhou and then trains Hong Kong and then swims back to Michigan, I fly to Guilin). Short bus to Yangshuo, 70k bike through Yangshuo greater agricultural region, 8 hour bus to Guangzhou. Meet up with Lance, Andrew, and Ryan (teaching in Guangzhou (all these teachers are connected through WW)). Short train to Zhuhai, massages at midnight on new years. Ferry to Hong Kong.
We saw the highlights, but China is a big country.
This sounds good, and familiar. You should have climbed Hua Shan though. Maybe when I come to visit.
ReplyDeleteThe detail about it being a "terrible" massage left me imagining whole paragraphs that you didn't write. Sounds like a big trip!
ReplyDeleteAlban: Lance had good things to say about Hua Shan too. When you come, if you want to revisit Zhonggua, I invite you to consider Xingjiang (camel ride through the Taklamakan eh?), or Sichuan, if you want to find a wife.
ReplyDeleteEmily: A teachers job is to stoke the coals of imagination, tickle the closets of intrigue, encourage students to, as educational philosophy pioneer and television star Ms. Frizzle puts it, "take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!" You're going to have to use your resources to find out about the "terrible massage," as a teacher, I can't just tell you.