Central Asia & North Asia
Enchanting Mongolian plains and endless Russian steppe weave with mountains, forests, meadows, lakes and towns as you roll from Beijing to St Petersberg on the world's most epic train journey, the Trans Mongolian Railway. You can spend time, too, at Russia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest body of freshwater with its own unique species of seal, or go on Mongolian safari with yaks as your transport and gers your accommodation in true nomadic style. Further wander the majestic Gobi desert and Mongolian mountains or follow the silk route from Beijing to Kashgar across the breadth of China. Delve into the myriad other wonders of the great middle kingdom, too; China is massive and massively diverse in landscape, cultures, customs and cuisine, from the archaeological splendour of the terracotta warriors in Xian, through the magnificence of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the beautiful limestone plinths of Guilin, to the mighty metropolis of Hong Kong. China and Central Asia will astound from high steppe to skyscraper.
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China Odyssey
Amanda - Minto, NSW, 30 Oct, 2011
So many memorable things, we had an excellent group and leader which really made our trip so fantastic. In terms of the sights, seeing the panda's are a definite highlight as is climbing the great wall, climbing yellow mountain, the terracotta warriors, tianamen square, forbidden city, tai chi in Yanshuo, learning to play Mahjong and shocking the locals that we could actually play! One of the funniest things that happened on tour was our group was posing for a group photo in Tianamen Square, while we were all lining up all these locals came out of nowhere and jumped into our photo, we then retaliated by jumping into a group of local's photos's (of course after being asked to join!)
China Odyssey
Amanda - Minto, NSW, 30 Oct, 2011
Our local leader was brilliant, he went above and beyond what was required of him - even on days when we had free time, if most (or all) of our group wanted to do the same thing he would come along and organise everything for us, we never had to worry about anything as he was always fully prepared. Even when the trip ended in Shanghai, he asked us all to give him a list of the things we wanted to do and places we wanted to see and he wrote down the addresses and names in Chinese for us so that we could get around. On top of that he was a really fun leader and really interacted well with everyone on the tour.
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