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This is the second in an occasional series of “Expense Reports” where I use my recent trips to examine the highly variable costs of travel in China. The first report covered the costs of Sichuan travel. In a Nutshell Trip Length: 6 days/7 nights Total Cost: 679 RMB ($100) Per Day: 113 RMB ($17) Starting [...]
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This is the first in an occasional series of “Expense Reports” where I use my recent trips to examine the highly variable costs of travel in China. In a Nutshell Trip Length: 10 days Total Cost: 2667 RMB ($390) Per Day: 267 RMB ($39) Starting Point: Chengdu Ending Point: Chengdu After a year of blogging [...]
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There have been countless stories in recent weeks about China’s potential inflation problem. I haven’t really noticed this phenomenon in my daily life, except in one aspect — sightseeing ticket prices. This is probably the result of greed rather than macroeconomics, but the entrance fees to sites in China are astoundingly high. And based on [...]
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This is the fourth post of a weeklong series recapping my August trip to the western Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. See the first, second and third posts in the series. Maybe all these posts about western China have got you thinking about a trip to the region. But how much will it cost? [...]
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The blog I Will Teach You To Be Rich posted a terrific guide to inexpensive, full-time travel last week. Some of Nora Dunn’s tips were best suited for those planning to be on the road for a long time: work while traveling, get free accommodation, etc. But a few can just as well be applied [...]
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