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Subway Beijing
87 Reviews The Beijing Subway is a quick way to get around and it's cheap. But it can get PACKED at times. It doesn't even have to be rush hour! By the way, you'll never be able to park at Tiananmen Square, so...
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Metro Guangzhou
26 Reviews This is probably one of the fastest and easiest ways to get around Guangzhou. The metro is modern and clean, much like the metro stations in other major citites. The signs are written in both Chinese...
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Train Xi'an
17 Reviews Xi'an Metro Line 2 is an connection metro line serving the from south to North, cut through the city center including the South Gate (Nanmen), Bell Tower, North gate or Bei Dajie, Daminggong West, all...
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Airport Beijing
52 Reviews The cheap way to get into the city from the airport (till the subway extension is available in 2008) is to take one of the airport shuttle buses. There are 5 services, going to different parts of the...
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Xi'an Airport Xi'an
16 Reviews The airport is 47 km from Xian city centre and there's a very convenient airport bus that goes there from outside the Melody Hotel which is opposite the Drum Tower in the city centre. The bus costs...
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Taxis Beijing
97 Reviews From the airport to downtown (Tianamen Area) most hotels will arrange a taxi for you for the bargain price of £25. You may also be approached in the terminal by the cheapest taxi in Beijing £28. We...
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Taxis Xi'an
11 Reviews The easiest way around Xian other than your feet are the numerous green and blue colored taxis. They are cheap and easily flagged down. Just have the hotel concierge write down in chinese where it is...
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Public bus Beijing
44 Reviews Hi we have not long returned from bejing where we stayed for around seven days . we were show by a couple of aussies hot to navigate the local buses. What a great way to get around Beijing, we were...
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Bicycle Xi'an
6 Reviews Being a plane city, Xi'an is a good place for cycling, and bicycles may be seen everywhere. One sign of the evolution of China is the disappearing of the traditional rickshaws. No one runs...
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Trains Beijing
48 Reviews Beijing West Railway Station was opened for operation in 1996. It is the largest railway station in Asia, with 510,000 square meters. Most of the trains here are heading to the west or South west of...
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Rental Car Beijing
15 Reviews Hiring a car in Beijing (or anywhere in China) is not that easy. If you can get a Chinese-issued driving license, then you can hire one and drive by yourself. If you can’t get that license, then you...
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Rickshaw Beijing
16 Reviews chinese version of the Tricycle, similar to the Tuk Tuks of Thailand and Tricycles of Philippines and Cyclo of Vietnam. cost 20 RMB a short ride of 3 kilometers and 5 rmb per kilometer afterwards. a...
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Bicycles Beijing
29 Reviews I was studying Chinese language and culture at BIT, Beijing institute of Technology when I decided that I wanted leave the campus and explore Beijing for my self. It wasnýt long after I arrived (from...
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Airplane Beijing
23 Reviews Hummm...what to say about Air China. I've flown worse but I've definatly flown better. The plane was a little beat up...there were plastic shopping bags stuffed above the windows...I think to plug the...
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Maps of Beijing Beijing
8 Reviews If you don't speak Mandarin, it can be a bit of a challenge communicating in China. However, I found that when I sought out younger people, more often than not they were able to speak enough English...
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Walking Beijing
8 Reviews Beijing is a flat city. So if you have a good physical condition, choose a hotel in the city center and go around walking. Is the best way of know a city. Sometimes we used the subway, but I didn´t...
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Sights by bus within Southern China

We took this boatman's boat at the Summer Palace in Beijing. There was a little skiff of ice on Kunming Lake, but it was quite a lovely day.

I'm not sure one would want to travel on one of these, but we saw them carrying huge loads most places we went in China.

I'm not sure you'd actually want to travel around China by bicyle, but it seemed a popular way to get around Beijing.

All over China you find those modern rickshas...If you are curious about that, well, what can I say, go on and take one...Don't forget to bargain the price...

Chinese domestic flight schedule and full fare:http://www.caac.cn.net/(in Chinese, for info in English see the link below)
Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing Beijing
4 Reviews and 773 Opinions Located centrally in the Wangfujing area, this hotel is close to everywhere you want to get to...
Peace Hotel Shanghai Shanghai
12 Reviews and 151 Opinions The Hotel is truely a mixture of ancient and modern decore built in a Gothic Style, it once was...
The Garden Hotel Guangzhou Guangzhou
7 Reviews and 136 Opinions My friend and I just checked into this hotel. The rooms we received are terrible with stained...
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