China

As I mentioned yesterday, for today, we booked a private tour (the guy at our hotel here in Lijiang helped us book it this time and not Trip.com; we paid 388 x 2 = 776 CNY / 97 Euros in total for both of us) and went to see Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Yunshanping, Blue [...]

Today, we skipped breakfast at the hotel because I didn’t want to be surprised again like I was yesterday, and went to have a croissant and something to drink nearby at a small bakery and coffee shop which we saw yesterday and thought was worth a try, especially after reading the text „Love arrives through [...]

The last two days in Shanghai were spent enjoying some walking and shopping around Nanjing Road. We also did a caricature drawing, but I didn’t like how one of the girls there drew us; it didn’t look at all like us :)) However, I had a good laugh in a clothes shop, where, while waiting [...]

Today we took a taxi and went to visit the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum here in Shanghai. It is a huge building on several levels with a modern design. At the entrance, we bought two tickets for 90 CNY (11 euros). It was full of school kids everywhere, mainly brought there by their teachers. [...]

We are both vegetarians. Dipty since birth due to being raised in a Hindu family, me since February 2014 due to a natural phenomenon I wrote about here before. Therefore, because we are both foodies, and pretentious when it comes to vegetarian food choices, when we recommend something, we mean it. Today, we discovered a [...]

Yesterday evening, we arrived in Shanghai by train, as I already mentioned here. What we didn’t fully realise was that the Shanghai Hongqiao train station, where we arrived, was situated around 20 km away from the hotel we booked on trip.com, namely Jinjiang Metropolo Shanghai Xintiandi Hotel, situated at No. 120 Mengzi Road, Huangpu District, [...]

Yesterday, we had a quick breakfast (at home, we don’t have breakfast other than a cup of Indian chai, but here, because it’s vacation, we enjoy a lot of watermelon, some yoghurt, and some soya balls), after which we took a private car booked a day earlier on trip.com and travelled to visit the Mutianyu [...]

Today, we visited the Palace Museum (including Treasure Hall + Clock Hall), which is near Tiananmen Square, after we booked the tickets on trip.com from here yesterday. We enjoyed a few hours there. We didn’t book a guide, and refused two who offered themselves to guide us when we reached there, because we wanted to [...]

I write this blog post for the first time from China, more exactly from Beijing. We will be in China for almost 3 weeks. I planned this trip more than a year ago, but due to personal reasons, we postponed it until now. One of the main reasons I decided to come here was because [...]