Jiangsu

Best travel reports from Jiangsu

Day 22 - 24: Westward to Beijing

Route: 245 km Travel time: 12:33 Total distance: 1,923 km (of which 1,599 km on our bikes) After four weeks with our bikes in China, we have gotten used to the local...

Suzhou - Venice of the East

Hello! On my second weekend in Shanghai, my first trip took me to nearby Suzhou. The city, with its 10 million inhabitants, is located about 100km east of Shanghai and can be...

March and April

The past two months in brief

My start in China

Hello, a week ago my journey to China began, a good time to send you a short update from me back home. Last Sunday, I started with an adventurous flight to Shanghai... Delay,...

Tongli

On Saturday, for the first time after the corona crisis here in China, we did some sightseeing. Since we are unfortunately not allowed to travel to other cities yet, we chose...

People Mountain People Sea

This is a Chinese proverb and can roughly be translated as "heaven and earth". And that's exactly what we experienced on Sunday. With a few colleagues, we agreed to visit the...

Suzhou: Water City and Lingering Gardens

Suzhou was just a short stop on our trip to Shanghai. Arriving in the morning by night train, after checking in to our hotel, we set off for the Water City. There we could...

07/07/2019: The bus trip begins

Today we were able to take the bus. To prevent whining, there is a rotating seating arrangement. Every 10 days, everyone has to sit somewhere else. The seats are very...

Wuxi

Since mid-May we are officially allowed to travel out of Suzhou by public transportation again. We took advantage of this regained freedom last Sunday and took the train to the...

Shihu

We explored another corner of Suzhou during our extended weekend. Together with a few other Germans working at Bosch, we took advantage of the nice weather and took a walk...