A Hasty Wrap Up...

I don't have time to get the whole trip blogged before we head back and start packing for our road trip, so I'll attempt to give a very brief wrap up of the rest of our Chinese Adventure here, and give a full accounting on our Website when we get back from Himachal Pradesh trip.

Suffice it to say, that this China vacation has been the "trip of a lifetime" and we are forever changed because of it. I left off with Tongli so that leads us to our next stop of Shanghai. We met Smitty at the train station and walked about 20 minutes to his amazing apartment. Shanghai was amazing, and the highlight of that portion of our trip was the "Shanghai Death March" (as we are calling it) because of the insane heat and humidity that day. I don't know how many km we walked, but we saw Yuyuan Gardens and Market, People's Square, the City Planning Museum, and walked down Nanjing Street to the Bund with magnificent view of the Pearl Tower.

McFam on the Bund - Pearl Tower in the background

After Shanghai, we trained it back to Nanjing for another few "down days" and saw some really cool, very old stuff. I know, I know... I'm not doing any of this justice, but once I'm back on my own turf with my own keyboard, I promise to do a proper de-briefing.

Sun Yat Sen - Memorial to Father of Modern China

Wall ruins surrounding a Ming Era Tomb

The last part of our journey was spent in "heaven." The Guilin area of China is some of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

Top of Moon Hill

Well, that's all I have time for... we're out the door for dinner at Outback Steakhouse (beef!) before we head to the airport and head home to India.