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Finally at our last leg of the China tour was Macau, or the Las Vegas of the East.  With it’s Portuguese architectural influences and World famous casinos, it was a nice change for us and not what we originally expected.  To get there, it was a relatively cheap ferry ride from Hong Kong on the [...]

Our next two destinations from our hub in Shanghai was Suzhou and Hangzhou.  They are both relatively close to each other and can be reached by train or bus in a couple to few hours.  Suzhou was by far our favorite of the two (but not as nice as Zhouzhuang).  In actual fact, Hangzhou is [...]

Alright folks, so the next stop on our China trip was a bus ride from Shanghai to Zhouzhuang which was a really beautiful canal city only an hour or so away.  It was a really small and beautiful little town, and we ended up watching an entertaining on-site musical play in the evening.  This town [...]

Our next, and by far my favorite stop was Beijing. With Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall, the 2008 Olympic Games stadiums, and numerous markets and Hutong communities, Beijing shows you ancient history to present day. The architecture from all eras is amazing to see.

We visited the Summer [...]

After HK, it was on to Guilin and Yangshuo. To get there, we took the oddest bus I’ve ever seen–an overnight sleeper bus full of tiny, coffin-sized bunk beds. It looked like catacombs, and if you were more than 5′8 and 150 lbs., you’d be on the floor if the bus took a corner. After [...]