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Re-connecting with relatives and making our way to Tibet.

Please refer to the maps below. The red dot on the China map shows our location the last time we were able to post an update and the green lines and numbered squares show where we’ve been. Click the links on the right for details of each entry and to see any related photos that we’ve posted.

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Gilles, Jenny and Victoria

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  • Chengdu: Pandas and more

    With our late night flight from Yichang, we arrived at Chengdu airport at 1 am. We still managed to take the airport shuttle bus to the downtown area where we… Read more

  • Yichang: A day in Hubei province

    By the time we finished our tour of the Three Gorge Dam complex and bused one hour to Yichang, it was already night time (~9:30pm). Thankfully upon on our arrival… Read more

  • Yangtze River Cruise

    Early Thursday morning, we left our Guilin hotel, hoped in a taxi to the bus station and then traveled to the airport. We checked our bags and waited 2 hours… Read more

  • Yangshuo/Guilin – Part 2

    As much as Jenny was looking forward to her classmate reunion, I was hoping to get an opportunity to bike in China. Well, on Wednesday, my wish came true. We… Read more

  • Yangshuo/Guilin

    We were touched by the great hospitality, we enjoyed at Jenny’s younger brotherś place (meals, laundry service, travel info and snacks). Everyone wanted to make sure we had a great… Read more

  • Shanghai: Re-connecting with relatives and classmates

    Well, we made our trek from Ottawa to Newark(1 hr) and Newark to Shanghai (13.5 hrs). Even the long flight, we apprehended so much, went well possibly because of the… Read more

  • Here we go again…

    It is hard to believe that it’s been almost five years since our last visit to China. On the eve of our departure from China back in the fall of… Read more