Thorn Tree travel forum

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Sorry, you're too vague.
What are your sightseeing interests and preferences?
What's your expected daily budget? How many of you are there?
What time of year would you be travelling in?
I hope you already know that you'll need to have a double-entry China visa if you're going to Hong Kong in the middle; or you'll have to get a new China visa in Hong Kong.
Cheers!

2

Sorry, Ellyse, I'm a bit new to all of this. There are two of us travelling together and we will arrive in Shanghai about the 14th May from Japan. We will already have our double entry visa's sorted. I think our daily budget together is going to be about $60. As for things that we are interested in, a bit of everything, I basically like to eat my way around a country and my wife is a photographer. So far we have thought about:
Shanghai-Hangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau-Shennzhen-Guangxi, then up to Chengdu-Lhasa-Xian and across to Bejing.
We have only just started planning though and any must see/give a miss places would be really helpful.
Sorry if I am still a bit vague, thanks a lot for your reply

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60 USD per day, or some other currency? Approximately 450 RMB/day for both of you.
Shanghai -- Xitang -- Hangzhou -- Huangshan & surrounding Hui-style vilages -- Wuyuan -- Shenzhen -- Hong Kong -- Guangzhou -- Yangshuo -- Chengdu -- Jiuzhaigou -- Xi'an -- Pingyao -- Datong -- Beijing.
Cheers!

4

Wow, thanks for the quick reply Ellyse. It was USD but I we will be changing from Yen into RMB. Will go and do lots of reading now! Once again thanks a lot!

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#3, I didn't see Lhasa in that itinerary.

"Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable those Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility."

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Shanghai with day trip to water village. (can't remember the name, but ellyse knows)
Hong Kong by train vie Shenzhen.
HK, Macao, return to mainland to get train to Guilin then bus to Yangshuo.
Yangshuo and surrounding area, incl. the Dragon Backbone rice terraces.
Train to Guizhou.
Train to Chengdu.
Train to Tibet.
Train back to Xi'an.
Train to Beijing via Pingyao and Datong.

"Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable those Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility."

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Sorry #5, I'm down sick these few days and not really thinking well.
Cheers!