The Road To Dunhuang
“You must visit Dunhuang once in your life. If you don’t you’ll regret it forever… but if you do go, you’ll regret it twice as much”. The words of the […]
“You must visit Dunhuang once in your life. If you don’t you’ll regret it forever… but if you do go, you’ll regret it twice as much”. The words of the […]
Train origin: Urumqi Train destination: Hangzhou Train distance: 4168 km Travel Time: 57:14 Joined train at: Urumqi Left train at: Liuyuan My distance: 825 km My travel time: 10:22 Urumqi […]
The following is an account of my experiences at Urumqi station in the far northwest of China. It was around 8am on an August morning in 2011 and I had […]
Below is a trip report for a journey I took in August 2011 on a China Railways train from Jinan (Shandong Province in eastern China) to Urumqi (Xinjiang Province, far […]
In my previous post I gave an overview of China’s impressive railway network. All of this is nice to know, but how do you actually get where you want to […]
China Railways China is the largest country in the world by population (around 1.3 billion people), and the second largest by land area. To transport these masses of people and […]