Travelogues China

After a few weeks in Shanghai, where we spent Christmas and New Year's Eve, we set off on January 3rd to explore China. The first city that Katharina wanted to visit was Suzhou....

Many trips abroad start with a flight. So did ours, with a quite long flight. Flight time alone: approx. 22 hours. Plus a 14-hour layover in Hong Kong. But we were looking...

On Monday, we took an early modern train from Shanghai to Hangzhou. The train station reminded me of an airport and we had to scan our bags and ourselves. We had allowed for...

A bike tour through Beijing. Between crowded streets and crowds at the sights

The report on Hong Kong will be a bit different this time. Instead of telling the stories in chronological order, I will simply describe the places I visited. That brings a bit...

China has impressed us a lot. Just beyond the Chinese border, you enter a whole new world. In China, there are 50 million cities - even relatively smaller places feel...

Despite the scorching heat - 33 °, 67% humidity, we take a walk along the harbor,...

Unfortunately, fog and rain. We still head to the glass bridge, one of the longest in the world. However, we can see neither the abyss below us nor the end across from us. In the...

The train station in Shanghai is located relatively far outside, near the old airport, so the journey takes a long time, about an hour. After a detailed check-in, you arrive at...

After the performance, our group held a full program: Fuxi Temple Fu Xi was referred to as the

The archaeological site in Liangzhu, which gives the culture its name, reveals not only the existence of canals and dams but also housing structures, such as palatial buildings,...

I still owe the description of our visit to the Liangzhu Museum in Hangzhou, which I divide into several blog posts due to the size of the museum and the length of my stay. It's...

To escape the cold weather in Cangzhou, we planned a vacation within our vacation in Singapore towards the end of our trip. The flight departs from Tianjin in the morning,...

We spent our first sunny day in Hangzhou visiting the White Pagoda Park. Construction is underway around the pagoda itself, which complicates our access to the park and leads us...

Due to our extension of stay in Hangzhou, I was able to fulfill a previously failed hotel wish, as we are now booking these two days at the Alibaba FlyZoo Hotel, which had been...

I am a diligent tea drinker, and green tea is practically my standard beverage. Here in Hangzhou lies a famous tea-growing area, which immediately makes me consider the tea...

Along the old Grand Canal, Cangzhou has built and designed a lot in recent years to revitalize the ancient trading tradition and the canal's traditional economic importance for...

Many people in the Western world claim that China's economy is characterized by copying and plagiarism. However, many overlook the fact that this development has a great...

I entered China with a family visa, which requires me to register at the registration office. Now we wanted to do that in Cangzhou, at the location of our apartment. However,...

The traffic in China is characterized by many different means of transportation. In addition to cars and trucks, small electric cars, electric tuk-tuks, and electric scooters...

We leave Bohai Bay behind us and reach the tourist/historic Penglai…

Start of our bike tour towards the east...

October 17, 2023 Sometimes you make plans only to not implement them. 😅 The day started sportily, I ran the 400 meters up Pottinger Street. When I got to the top I had coffee....

At the end of our journey through Pakistan, I want to tell you again about this impressive country.As described in my last post, the Pakistanis are incredibly hospitable. We are...

Dutch people, Dutch people everywhere... And not just in our compartment of the train that was heading towards China... The whole carriage was full of a group of Dutch tourists...

Our alarm clock went off at 5.00am. We left our beloved apartment and, still a bit sleepy, made our way to the airport. Since we chose the express train, the journey to Narita...

My workday started at 9 am today and ended just before 7 pm. The working hours here are much longer than in Germany. However, I had exciting meetings again! At 2 pm, we had an...

Our wallet suffers in the dense city, with its impressive copy-paste skyscrapers.

Holaaaa bitchachos, So we went out for the first time today in shorts and a t-shirt (just some weather information 😛🌞). We left around 10 and headed towards Lantau Island....

Good evening, We are incredibly glad to be in a big city for a longer period of time - not because we think it's great with all the people, but because this time we have enough...