Tag: World Heritage Site
Out about around Hanoi
Posted: November 26th, 2012 by Courtney
From Hanoi we made a couple trips to the surrounding areas of Sapa and Halong Bay. Our trip to Sapa started with an overnight train into the mountains.  We booked a 4-berth sleeping cabin, thinking we would sleep nicely.  Oh boy were we wrong!  It was so loud and bumpy that it felt like we were […]
Canals and Gardens in Suzhou
Posted: November 12th, 2012 by Scott
Just to get out of the big city for a few days we took the high-speed train to the small town of Suzhou, which has a meager 9.2 million people.  The area is know for it’s Chinese classical gardens, canals, silk making, and who could forget the Squirrel-Shaped Mandarin Fish. We spent the day wandering along Ping Jiang Road, […]
The People’s Republic of China
Posted: November 4th, 2012 by Courtney
With our visas in our hands on Monday afternoon, we jumped on a plane to Beijing Tuesday morning. We arrived to a bit of a culture shock. We were feeling pretty good in Hong Kong, with familiar Cantonese food and English spoken everywhere. Well, not in Beijing. We were overwhelmed by the scale of city. […]