Bamboo Hats and Bullet Trains: Our Month In China (A Pair of Gadabouts)


From its bustling metropolises to limestone forests, and from snowcapped mountains to giant pandas, we spent a month travelling across China, getting acquainted with this great nation and its people. We cruised the mighty Yangtze, danced with the locals in Guilin, ate sizzling hotpots in Sichuan, climbed the rice terraces in Longji, and marvelled at all the usual tourist hotspots on our 7,000 km journey across this vast land.Follow us on this journey, told through my diary entries, aided by the many stunning photographs we took along the way.*Beijing —Xi’an—Chengdu —Lijiang —Shaxi —Dali —Kunming —Guilin —Yangshuo —Chongqing —Yangtze Three Gorges —Zhujiajiao —Shanghai.*NB: In order to keep the file size (and hence cost) to a minimum, the kindle edition has a selection of B&Wimages. The paperback includes many additional photographs, all in colour, as does