Cheap Travel: Backpacking through China, Kunming & Xi’an

Kunming and Xi’an were our last 2 proper destinations in this trip and they are tip-top places to go, really both cracking places to visit – dirt cheap, so much culture your head could explode and everyday is an experience in itself. From Jinghong we got to Kunming via sleeper bus, these are are a [...]

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Cheap Travel: Backpacking in China – Yunan Province

Bloody hell it felt good finally landing in China, we were in a port-town called Guan Li which certainly wasn’t ideal as we thought we could get a life on the cargo boat all the way to Jinghong – apparently not! Guan Li was… erm.. euh… interesting We climbed the stairs at the port and [...]

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Traveling Cheap – the boat from Thailand to China contd…

It was the evening of our 2nd day on the cargo boat, day 1 had certainly been an experience and as day 2 wore on we realised China was nowhere to be seen. We did, however, seem to be coming rather close to land.. It should be said at this point that we did have [...]

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Cheap travel – boat from Thailand to China (taking a cargo boat, up the Mekong river, from Thailand to China)…

Now I was settled in Chiang Mai, Christmas came around and I had some time off from teaching so my two housemates (Max and Swede) decided to do a little hardcore backpacking… my first real adventure… I wanted to go to China all my life but on 25,000 Baht per month teaching salary I couldn’t [...]

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