Category: Meet China
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A Guide To Living In Hengyang, China
Welcome to Hengyang, China! Located in the southern part of China in the Hunan province, you’ll experience weather that changes every hour and eat some of the spiciest food you’ve ever tasted. I loved living and teaching here and want to share a few things about navigating life in this city! What to wear…
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5 Things You Should Do In Yangshuo
The Dragon Boat Festival is a big holiday in China celebrated near the beginning of summer, and luckily for us this meant we had 4 days to travel! We decided to spend our Dragon Boat Festival holiday in Guilin, a city we’ve had our eye on for awhile. Guilin is a beautiful city in the…
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Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Wuhan
February 18 and 19 Our final three destinations for our travel China experience included Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Wuhan. I have to fess up, when I was getting ready to come to China I was browsing around on Pinterest and saw an article about the best cities in China to visit. And Hangzhou and Suzhou were…
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Shanghai
Waking up at 5:30am is never fun, but knowing you’re flying to Shanghai makes it a little more bearable. We caught a taxi at 6:10am back to the Beijing Nanyuan Airport and flew at 8:15 to Shanghai Pudong Airport. Lauren and I decided to wing it once we got to Shanghai – I had found…
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BEIJING
Friday February 12 After 3 days of lounging around Hengyang (everything except the grocery store was closed for the Spring Festival so there was nothing to do haha), we began the next part of our traveling! We grabbed a taxi around 8:45am to give us time for our 11:30am flight from the Hengyang airport. We…
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Pandas & Chinese New Year in Chengdu
Thursday February 4 The plans you make for traveling tend to change and play out in a way you didn’t expect them to. Which happened to us, after we fell into our beds exhausted from our day of traveling and hiking Emeishan. Our original plan was to leave for Song Pan the next morning very…