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Peter Hessler’s latest book on China is loosely organized around the theme of driving in China: along the Great Wall, out to the countryside and through factory zones. Key to the research for Country Driving was the fact that Hessler got a Chinese driver’s license, and stories of that process are some of the funniest [...]
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Peter Hessler’s latest book on China is loosely organized around the theme of driving in China: along the Great Wall, out to the countryside and through factory zones. Key to the research for Country Driving was the fact that Hessler got a Chinese driver’s license, and stories of that process are some of the funniest [...]
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This is the second of three posts on traveling in Japan on a budget. Yesterday, I wrote about the overall costs of a Japan trip. Come back tomorrow for part three, on the cost-effectiveness of the Japan Rail Pass. To be honest, when I began thinking about where I would go this winter, Japan was [...]
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As regular readers of this blog have probably figured out, I am an independent traveler by temperament (and usually also by means). In China I take trains and local buses, and I avoid group tours like the plague. But here in Vietnam, truly “independent” travel is essentially impractical, at least when it comes to securing transportation. [...]
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