When I set about visiting China, my mission was to get to Beijing from Vietnam. In doing so, however, I didn’t want to simply trek the beaten path from Hong Kong, to Shanghai and up to the capital. China is a huge place, filled with many people, and there is no way I’d be able to see everything but I wanted to at least knock off a couple of sights and get a bit of variety other than major cities! This invariably meant heading inland […]