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China travel plan: Along the Yangtze (11 days)
Eastern China in eleven days, travelling by bullet train: Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing and Wuhan. After the Bund and the Lujiazui skyscrapers you slow down by Hangzhou's West Lake and in the Longjing tea village, drop in on China's “Paris” in Tianducheng, see the Lingshan Giant Buddha by Lake Tai and Nanjing's city walls, and finish at the Yellow Crane Tower above the Yangtze in Wuhan. A good route for a second trip to China, or for anyone who prefers less obvious cities than Beijing and Xi'an. What surprised us most was the technology: the Maglev from the airport, paying by phone everywhere and bullet trains linking every city on this route.
- 11 daystrip length
- 7 placeson the route
- Shanghaistart
- Departure from WuhanTianhe Airport (WUH)
- Best time to go March–May, September–November
See a free sample (PDF) – 2 days from “China's Golden Triangle+”. Every itinerary is planned in the same detail.
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Day-by-day route
A route summary. In the PDF every day is covered in detail: what to see, times, getting there, tickets and addresses in Chinese.
- Day 1Arrival in Shanghai
- Day 2Shanghai
- Day 3Shanghai → Ningbo
- Day 4Ningbo → Hangzhou
- Day 5Hangzhou
- Day 6Tianducheng → Wuxi
- Day 7Wuxi
- Day 8Wuxi → Nanjing
- Day 9Nanjing
- Day 10Nanjing → Wuhan
- Day 11Wuhan → departure
On this route
- Shanghai: the Bund, Lujiazui and Yu Garden
- Ningbo and Tianducheng with its Eiffel Tower
- Hangzhou: West Lake and Longjing tea
- Wuxi, Nanjing and Wuhan by high-speed train
What's in the PDF plan
- A day-by-day schedule describing each day
- A map of the whole route
- Place names and addresses in Chinese
- Before you go: visa, apps, internet, money, trains and plugs
- Connections between cities
- Booking a train ticket step by step
- Getting around the city
- What and where to eat
- How much it costs on the ground (per person, excluding flights to China)
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Internet in China: an Airalo eSIM or a cheaper one from Alipay, when you need a VPN, what's blocked and which apps Chinese people actually use.
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