where is lushan? lushan is in the jiangxi province. jiangxi is just to curled around on its lower right quadrant by fujian and guangdong. 庐山 was called kuling by the american and european “expats” in the early 1900s, because well, you go up there to cool down during the sweltering heat of summer.
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1/Early morning: wait at xinjiekou outside Suning Electronics. People buying breakfast on the streets.
2/ Zhouzhuang is near shanghai, so 4 hour bus ride. After long bus ride, lunch time. Meet comrades from Nanjing. A toast to them!
3/ Our hardest-working guide.
4/ A picture that represents what Zhou Zhuang is all about. It’s a venice-like place.
5/ Not [...]
Article contributed by Alan (California, USA)
I have been up mountains in California, New Hampshire and Vermont. But all of those experiences resulted from taking a lift up during the ski seasons. This past June, I “hiked” up a mountain for the first time. This mountain, Huang Shan, was no ordinary mountain. [...]
OVERVIEW:
Before we get started, let’s give us all a great headstart with some useful websites (in English):
ctrip
elong
chinatravelguide
All three will provide information on flights and hotels, but note that chinatravelguide will have a section that deals with train travel that’s very useful. You can do a search on train travel on this subsite.
AIR:
The above websites are [...]