Beijing 北京 - Urumuqi 乌鲁木齐 - Turpan 吐鲁番 - Dunhuang 敦煌 - Jiayu Pass 嘉峪关 -
Jiuquan 酒泉 - Zhangye 张掖 - Wuwei 武威 - Jingtai 景泰 - Lanzhou 兰州 - Xian 西安 - Louyang 洛阳 - Zhengzhou 郑州 - Kaifeng 开封 - Taian 泰安 - Jinang 济南 - Qufu 曲阜 - Zibo 淄博 - Weifang 潍坊 - Qingdao 青岛 - Yantai 烟台 - Dalian 大连 - Back to Beijing 。
My journey began from Beijing and ended in Beijing, covering more than 5 provinces 22 main cities, from west to far east of China, from desert to mountain to sea, from Buddhism to Islamic to Taoism, from past to present. I was as if in a time machine, passing through the 5000 years tunnel of Chinese history. The convulsions of nature was stimulating. Nothing on this earth can be exempted from natural cycle of creation and destruction.
While infatuated in its large scale of heritage artifacts, historical relics and remains, I was greatly impressed at its present development. I admired the great wisdom of ancient Chinese and at the same time, gave high recognition to the great success of the dynamic modern Chinese.
From Gobi Desert to Yellow River, Tai rocky mountain to forested Lao ranges, mountainous rustic rural areas to modern coastal cities, no scenery was overlapped or repeated. They are of entirely different characteristic and are equally breath taking. My journey progressed on sometimes with camel ride, donkey carts, hovercraft, coach, train, ferry, cable-car and flight, basic carriage to latest vehicles. Its a good experience to be at different atmosphere with different kind of people at different stations, trying on variety of local cuisines and fruits. Traveling in China, one would only know, how big is the world and how great is the earth. It was a fantastic and interesting journey!
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