China

Day 15: Wulingyuan - Zhanjiajie National Park: Avatar's Chinese Mountains - Zhangjiajie - Fenghuang The alarm rings at 6 in the morning and after yesterday's experience at Zhanjiajie National Park or Avatar's Chinese Mountains, at 7 o'clock we are leaving the Destination Youth Hostel, to be early in the morning at the gates of the park that is about 200 meters.

Day 11: Chengdú: Panda Bear Conservation Center, Tianfu Square, People's Park, Old Jinli Street After sleeping only 5 hours, yesterday we took a late afternoon flight from Xi'an to Chengdu after visiting the famous Terracotta Warriors of Xi'an, today we are more than busted and this trip to China is killing us;), but today we have a point in the planning that makes us not think too much about this: the Conservation Center of Panda bears in Chengdu.

Day 17: Transfer from Fenghuang to Guilin: Fenghuang - Huaihua - Changsa - Guilin It is 6 in the morning and we are already at the plant since today we have the transfer from Fenghuang to Guilin of which we will do the first part, from Fenghuang to Huaihua, where We will take the first train of the day with a car that got us yesterday when we arrived at the hotel after enjoying Fenghuang and that will come to look for us between 8 and 8:30 in the morning.

Day 10: Xi'an: Terracotta Warriors - Flight to Chengdu The alarm rings at 6:30 in the morning. Today we have another day of the most complete in this trip to China for free and that is that yesterday we arrived in the city, where we visited the Muslim Quarter of Xi'an, and today we have to know the icing on the cake the famous Terracotta Warriors of Xi 'an.

Day 9: Pingyao - Xi'an: Walls of Xi'an, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Muslim Quarter, Mosque of Xi'an Today is again a day like any other since we started this trip to China for free , so the alarm sounds at 6:30 in the morning and that is today we left Pingyao, where we arrived yesterday, to go to Xi'an in a fast train, where this afternoon we want to know the Muslim Quarter of Xi'an among others places of interest.

Day 8: Pingyao: Confucius Temple, City Tower, Rishengchang House of Finance Museum, Qingxu Guan, Wall of the Nine Dragons, Pingyao Walls The alarm clock rings at 5:30 a.m. and in a few minutes they touch at the door telling us that our stop is already close. In a few minutes we will arrive in the city, so we take this time to collect our bags and review the list of places we have to see in Pingyao in one day, which is the time we will be in this city that we have read, it seems anchored in last.

Day 7: Datong: Hengshan Hanging Monastery and Yungang Caves - Night Train to Pingyao It is 5:20 in the morning on the night train from Beijing to Datong when they open the slam door asking us for the plastic ticket they gave us yesterday when We arrived to exchange it for our original train ticket and let us know that we are arriving in Datong.

Day 5: Beijing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park or Coal Hill, Dashilar Street, Qianmen Hutongs, Olympic Village: the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube The alarm rings at 6 in the morning and directly, after to touch our legs and check that they are there after the trekking between Jinshanling and Simatai in the Great Wall of China, we take a shower, we eat a couple of sweets that we bought before yesterday in a bakery and they still remain, which we certainly have What to say that the sweets here are very good, and we go down to the reception of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, at 7:30 we go down to the reception of the 161 Hotel to have a couple of coffees that have just toned our stomach for 39RMB.

Day 6: Beijing: Summer Palace, Panjiayuán Market, Beijing Hutongs - Night train from Beijing to Datong Today we start the day half an hour later than these previous days, since today we have a most complete day visiting the Palace of Summer in Beijing in the morning stop by the car to take a night train that takes us from Pakín to Datong, which will be our next stop on the trip to China for free.

Day 3: Beijing: The Temple of Heaven, Pearl Market, Drum Tower, Bell Tower, Qianhai Lake, Nanluogu Hutong, Suoyi Hutong, Wangfujing The alarm clock rings at 6 in the morning. We are busted after being without sleep all day yesterday and taking advantage of the afternoon to know some of the most emblematic places like the Temple of the Lamas in Beijing, but today we have a most complete day, including a visit to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, so we have to get going.

Day 4: Beijing - Trekking between Jinshanling and Simatai on the Great Wall of China - Beijing The alarm sounds at 6 in the morning. It is clear that the trips are not for us the best time to rest and it is that today at 8 in the morning we have met Susanna to meet one of the objectives we had on this trip to China for free: the trekking between Jinshanling and Simatai in the Great Wall of China that we will do thanks to The China Guide that has invited us to know this area of ​​the wall of his hand.

Day 1: Barcelona - London - Beijing The alarm sounds at 4:50 in the morning. Something strange if we stop to think that today is Good Friday, a holiday in Catalonia. But not so rare if we remember that today begins one of our long trips of the year: we go on a trip to China in 25 days for free!

Day 2: Beijing: Temple of the Lamas, Temple of Confucius, Qianmen, Tiananmen Square We landed at 9.30 in the morning after a flight to Beijing with a stopover in London quite heavy in which we slept at the end about two hours in total and is that this type of day flights in the country of origin, are the worst to be able to face the first day of travel like today, which we plan to approach the Temple of the Lamas in Beijing, among many other visits.

TRAVEL PREPARATIONS When we started to think about the possible destination of one of the long trips we would make this year, this was the one that least crossed our minds at first. One thing we had quite clear and is that this year we wanted to return to Asia, that continent that has given us so many good times and that after the trip to Peru last year, which was also a trip in capital letters, we missed so much.

Our trip to China in 25 days will take us to travel a small part of this immense country for which we would need several months if we wanted to cover it completely. Without having that time we have chosen to make an itinerary in which we will stop at some of the most tourist and important places of this fascinating country.