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Day Trip to Shenzhen

May 27, 2019May 21, 2025 jaclyncAsia

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[…]

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Day Trip to Hangzhou

May 25, 2019May 21, 2025 jaclyncAsia

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,[…]

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The Bund, Shanghai

3 Days in Shanghai

May 13, 2019May 21, 2025 jaclyncAsia

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[…]

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4 days in Chengdu – Panda, Spicy Food, Tea House

November 16, 2018November 19, 2018 jaclyncAsia

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[…]

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3 days in Xi’an — trapped in ancient walls

November 8, 2018May 21, 2025 jaclyncAsia

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[…]

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Hiking Mount Hua (Huashan 華山)

October 13, 2018October 26, 2018 jaclyncAsia

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.[…]

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Traveling in China as a foreigner

August 20, 2018March 11, 2019 jaclyncAsia

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[…]

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4 days traveling in Beijing, China after 14 years

August 2, 2018May 21, 2025 jaclyncAsia

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[…]

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