Listen up folks! If and when you come to China, you simply MUST see The Great Wall, all 8,851 km of it! Okay, not the whole thing! Dating back to the 5th Century BC, the 10 Kilometers that Manali and I hiked from Jinshanling to Simatai is definitely the most memorable thing we have experienced [...]

1. Shanghai Museum: First of all it’s free which is always nice. The museum also provides great insight into Chinese culture and history. It is conveniently located near People’s Square, Nanjing Road and Renmin Park.
2. Walk Nanjing Road (especially east of People’s Square): Nanjing Road is the tourist haven, and this pedestrian street caters [...]

When you’re on a budget, have plenty of time to spare and don’t mind a little adventure, trains in China might be your best bet the next time you travel. Our trip from Shanghai to Beijing was ideal on the overnight sleeper train, but if you are really adventurous or slightly insane you can hop [...]

Upon your first task of crossing a street in China, you quickly realize it is much different from home, wherever that may be…well aside from India maybe?
I’m only speculating, but I would think most madmen the world over, were first Chinese bus drivers. Some of our most exhilarating experiences thus far have involved buses and [...]

All bits of culture have their little quirks…but the cultural quirks in China have quickly made lasting impressions, and leave us wondering, “Why do they do that?”.
For example, many Chinese men wrench their shirts up above the belly, exposing their torsos, in attempts to cool off in the heat. In that there is some [...]

Exploring the city of Shanghai right now may leave you a little frustrated, due to the massive construction effort being undertaken for Expo 2010. Poised to put Shanghai on the map, as the 2008 Olympics did for Beijing, development has been compared to Boston’s Big Dig, beautifying the area around The Bund.
For now, the [...]

Adjacent to “Old Shanghai” area we visited Yu Garden and the surrounding Bazaar. Admission to the gardens, which are quite expansive was 40 Yuan each. Definitely a tourist destination within Shanghai, but something to see, if nothing more for the relative peace and serenity contrasting the general hustle and bustle of Shanghai, currently undergoing massive [...]

Blue Mountain had a great location, directly across the street from the Luban Road metro stop on line 4 in Shanghai. The importance of such close proximity to mass transit can only be known following looooong daily tramps across the city. Your feet can only bare so much of the daily brutality put forth by [...]