Train ride to Harbin

The fruit man takes a rest on his rounds of selling fruit and veggies. To our left are our rooms, with three bunks on each side. It felt a bit cramped, but the 24 hours on the train went faster than we thought and after a while we just accepted the constant hauking and clearing of throats produced by our fellow travelers.

The Ice Capital of China.

January 26th 2010
Chapter one of our five weeks of travel started with the boarding of train number T159 in Taizhou, a city 43 miles east of Yangzhou and then traveling almost due north, into the dark and cold hinterlands of China; a land only a stone’s throw from Siberia. Traveling some 1,500 miles via train makes for more than one story and coupling long travel time with tight quarters guarantees extr ... read more

Asia » China » Heilongjiang » Harbin

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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