Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Category: China

  • Photos!

    Finally found a decent internet connection to get some more pictures up. Enjoy! Hong Kong & Vietnam

  • Shanghizzle

    Shanghai was lots of fun for us. We were able to mesh our schedule with our friends from home who play in the ‘Indie Rock Group – Paper Lions’. It was a great taste of home for us and it was refreshing to see some familiar faces from familiar places.…

  • Memory Lane : Suzhou / Hangzhou

    Suzhou and Hangzhou were both nice and quaint. I think that each of them deserved more time than we gave them. We spent two days in each place which was not enough time to get settled and truly enjoy the cities. If I had to choose one over the other…

  • Tip: The Cost of Traveling in China

    We spent a lot of time budgeting our money for this trip and a lot Iof the times it was really difficult to find up to date or accurate information. Fortunately though we ended up coming in more or less exactly on budget. Some cities we were over and others we…

  • Tip: Overlanding from Hong Kong to Hanoi via Shenzhen and Pingxiang

    I wrote a post earlier about setting up this part of the trip but for those of you trying to do something similar here is the rest of the story. We had already purchased our tickets on the overnight bus from Shenzhen to Pingxiang so all that remained was to…

  • Day 24 & 25: Fooled by the Haze

    Hong Kong while it’s still an Asian city has been very much westernized through it’s century of British rule. So much so that it was easy to be fooled into thinking we weren’t in Asia anymore. The city is cleaner and more efficient than any of the other cities in…

  • Memory Lane : Nanjing

    It’s been almost 2 weeks since Nanjing so it is probably about time I caught up on the posts. We learned a lot about Nanjing after we spent some time there. I will admit that I was and still am quite ignorant when it comes to China. Originally we decided…

  • Day 23: Hot Kong

    After a long day of traveling on Tuesday we took it pretty easy yesterday. We unfortunately had to set out early in order to get our visas straightened out. After only 15 minutes though at the consulate we were all set. We didn’t really have anything planned as we had…