Sick and tired of travelling, feeling dirty, hungry and technically Chinese, after spending four days as one of the only two Westerners on a Chinese “cruise” boat down the Yangzi Jiang (Yangtze River), we stopped in a filthy car park in the middle of Yichang. Without so much as a chance to catch our breath, take in…
[slideshow] At Chongquing bus station, we were hurriedly handed our passes and bundled onto a coach full of over excited Chinese holidaymakers. Four hours later we arrived at Wanzhou to board the Yangtze River Cruise ship – and, if anyone is thinking luxury liner around the med at this point…don’t! Following the crowd down the…
[slideshow] Behind the relative glitz and glamour of Beijing and Xi’an, Chongquing gives an insight into the real urban China. Located in the Sichuan Province, the municipalities’ 32 million people live in a sea of high rises on a scale I have never witnessed before. Tower block central, 30 plus stories high, it’s difficult to see…