https://chinain28days.blogger.de/ Blogger.de highpeak 2013-05-30T10:52:01Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2266528/ Trip back to mainland China was pretty easy, we boarded the bus in Wanchai which brought us to the border, walked via the immigration and looking for our bus on Shenzhen side. A bit tricky, but with the stickers they had given to us a guy found us, put us into a buick bus with another Chinese guy and 45 minutes later we arrived at Shenzhen airport. Flight was more or less on time and when we arrived in Guilin our pick up was already waiting there to drive us the 1.5 hours to Yangshuo where we arrived... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-30T05:43:45Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2264760/ The next morning we enjoyed another breakfast in N'kitchen and headed for Lijiang airport. Maggie had the same flight with us to Kunming, there she changed to another plane back to Shanghai (see you in a week!) and Markus and me went on for Hong Kong. We arrived in the late afternoon, we had booked a hotel on Hong Kong Island and the location was pretty good: a bit up the hill but easy and cheap to reach by taxi either from Central or Wan Chai (name is "2 Mac Donnell"). We walked down from here... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-27T04:38:25Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2264758/ The next morning leaving the hotel at 7 am for the bus to Qiaotou, which is the starting point for the 2 day hike of the upper way through the Tiger Leaping Gorge. The bus ride was 2.5 hours so we (Maggie, Francesco, Markus and me) arrived around 10 am and started the hike. Weather was cloudy and misty again, but at least not too hot. The Jiang river runs through this gorge, on one side you have the trail which starts in 1800 m above sea level on one side of the gorge. In the beginning it winds up... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-27T04:14:59Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2264756/ The next morning we were lucky as we could afford to sleep until 9 am, great feeling! Enjoyed the (also western style) breakfast in the hotel with real cappucino and left to the Chengdu airport to catch our flight to Lijiang in Yunnan Province. About 1.5 hours later we arrived in Lijiang airport where we were supposed to meet Maggie, who took some days off to join us for the old town of Lijiang and the hike through Tiger Leaping gorge. This time Maggies flight was delayed so we took first the booked... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-27T03:50:27Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2264754/ Again a early wake up and taking a taxi to the so called JiuzhaiHuanglong airport, about 40 minutes driving from Songpan and to my surprise driving up into the mountains, as this aiport lies on 3500 m! Weather was cloudy and misty, close to snow and as a frequent passenger of China Eastern Airlines I expected to hear my most loved announcement on Chinese airports: "We are sorry to announce, that flight xxx is delayed due do late arrival of the aircraft..." I was right, no airplane there, but finally... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-27T03:31:27Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2260098/ Guess the next morning wake up time? You are right: 6.30 am! Jiuzhaigou National Park opens at 7.00 am and we managed to be part of the first ticket purchasers and hopped on one of the first small busses heading up. The park has actually 3 valleys, 2 of them starting from the main tourist center 14 km away from the main entrance. Our bus directly headed up the valley to Swan lake, about 17 km from the tourist center. We got off the bus at 8.00 am and started our walk down. Again wonderful forrest... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-19T13:28:32Z https://chinain28days.blogger.de/stories/2260093/ We woke up the next morning at 6.30 am (holiday!) with the typical bai jiu after taste and the feeling we would like to change our head. After looking out of the window (rain) a short hesitation if to stay in this warm bed or to follow our original plan to go to Huanglong national park. We did the 2nd way and at 7.00 am sitting in a full bus directed to Huanglong. The bus winded up a narrow road from 2800 m in Songpan to almost 4000 m and the rain was changing to to snow and ice, even the road was... Blogger.de highpeak Copyright © 2013 highpeak 2013-05-19T12:59:16Z Search this site: q https://chinain28days.blogger.de/search