Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Category: China

  • Tip: Overlanding From China to Hong Kong to Vietnam

    Disclaimer: this post is boring. I’m only writing it for other travelers trying to do the same thing or similar to us as it was not east finding this info online. We unfortunately had to fly from Shanghai to Shenzhen because all of the trains from Shanghai to Hong Kong…

  • Day 20&21: Strolling the Streets of Shanghai with some Lions

    We’ve known that our friends from Paper Lions were going to be playing in Shanghai for expo for a while so we made sure our schedules would line up so we could get together on the other side of the world. When you’ve been away from home for a while…

  • Day 19: Expolicious

    On Saturday we spent the entire day wandering around the Shanghai 2010 expo grounds. The expo is both the largest and most expensive ever held with the grounds covering over 5 square km and an anticipated 75 million people to pay a visit. At an estimated cost of $45M the…

  • Victory!

    We’ve finally been able to upload a few pictures. They’ve been uploaded to facebook but for those of you who don’t have fb… here’s the link 🙂 Enjoy! P.S. We’re obviously still alive, just haven’t had time to write the posts and get them on the website. Stay tuned, we…

  • Day 18: The Bund

    We arrived in Shanghai without a hitch. It was definitely the most enjoyable train experience we’ve had and we found our hostel easily. We had only been in the city an hour when we realized this was going to be awesome. We unloaded our stuff at the hostel and set…

  • Day 17: Big Cats, Big Dogs & Big Bugs

    Yesterday we had every intention of spending the whole day relaxing in a couple of Hangzhou’s many parks. The day got off to a slow start as we both wanted to sleep a little later than usual but we eventually made it to the first stop, Huagung Park or as…

  • Day 16: Hangzoo

    We arrived in Hangzhou early this morning after a completely successful first long distance bus experience. The bus station was much easier and cleaner to navigate than any of the train stations we had been in and we quickly bought our ticket and hopped on the bus. After a couple…

  • Down Memory Lane: Pingyao / Xian

    It feels like weeks ago but I’m sure it was only days ago that we left Beijing. We had a few options for routes to get to Xian but due to train availability we settled on stopping only in Pingyao. Pingyao was high on our list of places to see…