2013 in China

(land #7) six big hubs of the middle kingdom
2013-10-31 23:59 // updated 2026-03-26 12:28

October 2013 : went to the People's Republic of China

"background"

  • went with a sightseeing group that met up in Toronto
  • after a stopover in Chicago, we would land in Beijing
  • trekked through many of the big hubs of China through flights and boats!

"the trip"

went to and saw the following sights:

  • Beijing
    • Tiananmen
    • Forbidden City
    • Great Wall
  • Xi'an
    • Terra Cotta knights
  • Chongqing
    • Chongqing pandas
    • Yangtze River boat crossing
      • Three Gorges dam
  • Wuhan
  • Guilin
  • Yangshuo
  • Shanghai

trip markers

  • 7th "new country"
  • 1st country and time in Asia
  • 1st country with Chinese as its official language
  • 1st "communist country"
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