I am venturing away from Beijing soon
What holiday is that? May 1st. I don’t think we really celebrate that one in the US…
The Chinese system of vacation does not revolve around vacation days given to workers, here we have the highly effective system of public holidays, which means that the whole country takes vacation at the same time. A genius system, I give the country two years to get rid of it altogether because the infrastructure is already overburdened with this mega population, forget when they all want to travel together! So I am about to throw convenience to the wind and do some traveling myself. This Friday I will board a train from Beijing’s West station headed to Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, a short 24 hour train ride.
http://www.chinaetravel.com/province/pr06.html
Gansu is that odd shape because its horrible mountainous, and through the middle runs the Silk Road. So, I’m doing the train part by myself, that will probably be lots of random chatting with other train passengers, sleeping, and a lot of beer. Meeting my friends in Lanzhou on the 1st. Who? My friend Anna, Italian, and her American boyfriend who lives elsewhere in China, and his American male friend who lives in Thailand. Should be a fun group. Haven’t made a whole lot of plans from there, but you get the general idea. Hope I can blog from nowhere’sville, or where ever it is I end up, keep y’all posted on china travels. I am really looking forward to going somewhere, I feel like I travel all the time in the US [well I do] and this is probably the first time in a very very long time that I’ve stayed put for almost three months!
The Chinese system of vacation does not revolve around vacation days given to workers, here we have the highly effective system of public holidays, which means that the whole country takes vacation at the same time. A genius system, I give the country two years to get rid of it altogether because the infrastructure is already overburdened with this mega population, forget when they all want to travel together! So I am about to throw convenience to the wind and do some traveling myself. This Friday I will board a train from Beijing’s West station headed to Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, a short 24 hour train ride.
http://www.chinaetravel.com/province/pr06.html
Gansu is that odd shape because its horrible mountainous, and through the middle runs the Silk Road. So, I’m doing the train part by myself, that will probably be lots of random chatting with other train passengers, sleeping, and a lot of beer. Meeting my friends in Lanzhou on the 1st. Who? My friend Anna, Italian, and her American boyfriend who lives elsewhere in China, and his American male friend who lives in Thailand. Should be a fun group. Haven’t made a whole lot of plans from there, but you get the general idea. Hope I can blog from nowhere’sville, or where ever it is I end up, keep y’all posted on china travels. I am really looking forward to going somewhere, I feel like I travel all the time in the US [well I do] and this is probably the first time in a very very long time that I’ve stayed put for almost three months!
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