Today in China

I dedicate this port to The Chiners… Francesco seemed so happy when I sent him this link! hahaha!

So, if you plan to travel around China and are afraid of taking the plane or just want to travel on a low budget, take the train! The question now is to know which train or even if there is a train between two cities. This is exactly the purpose of this page on TravelChinaGuide.com.

Let’s take for example Francesco and Celine who want to travel to PingYao for the Chinese National Day. They are students in TianJin so they are looking for a train Leaving from TianJin and Going to PingYao. And the website gives them the information about the train 4478/4475 from Tangshan to Linfen that would leave TianJin at 11:10PM and arrive in PingYao at 2:09PM the next day. The website even gives the price of the tickets for hard seat (7USD), soft seat (12USD), hard sleeper (14USD) and soft sleeper (21USD). I would recommend the hard sleeper…

However, something that this website will not provide is the booking of the tickets… and believe me, the tickets for the three official holidays (Chinese New Year, Labour’s Day in May and Chinese National Day in October) are difficult to get. And I would not be surprised if they get more expensive than the ones advertised on the website.

Anyway, have a nice stay in PingYao and bring back lots of pictures!