After a day trip to Hangzhou and before Hong Kong, we stopped by Shenzhen for a day and half. We are both engineers and thought a visit to this rising technology hub would be a fun idea. A friend worked at Tencent
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The morning after 3 days in Shanghai, we headed to Shanghai Hongqiao station for a high speed train (Gaotie 高鐵) to Hangzhou. I have never seen a crowd as much as in Shanghai train station elsewhere, especially from a bird’s eye view on
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After some relaxing days visiting pandas and enjoying food in Chengdu, we flew to one of the largest cities in the world, Shanghai. In 1843, the harbor of Shanghai fist opened up for foreign trade along with 4 other ports following the
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After exploring historic Xi’an and hiking Mount Hua, we continued our journey further west to Chengdu, Sichuan. We debated between Chongqing and Chengdu, and Chengdu won mostly because of its proximity to panda. Highlights Panda panda panda 🐼🐼🐼 Definitely one of my
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Xi’an used to be the capital a few times since Qin or Han dynasty, and one of the earliest and oldest cities in China. After 4 days in Beijing, we took Gaotie (high speed railway 高鐵) from Beijing West station to Xi’an
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From geography class in school, I learned the top 5 mountains in China and have always been wanting to visit one. Since we were visiting Xi’an, I researched on the possibility to check out Huashan. Honestly, I had subconscious fear because Huashan
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During our three weeks in China, a lot of things were eye opening. A country of 1.4 billion people and its history dating back to about 3000 years B.C., Chinese culture has gone through waves of revolutions of different kinds. China is probably
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Shortly after leaving our jobs and moving out of the Bay Area, we began our 3-week trip starting in Beijing. We have both been to Beijing separately before, for me it was about 14 years ago. In my vague memories of Beijing
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