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Video: the Beijing to Shanghai overnight train


During the China 2.0 Tour, our blogger gaggle took the “soft sleeper” overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai, China. We left at about 7:30 pm at night from Beijing and arrived Shanghai at 7 am.

In China, perfect strangers share four-person compartments (both men and women together) but we re-jiggered compartment assignments as much as we could to have at least a few of our 2.0 Tour bloggers in the same compartment.

I shared with two very nice Chinese passengers and the ever-buoyant and enjoyable David Feng.

We had dinner aboard the train and I slept like the proverbial log. Something very soothing about that clickety-clack….

For my RSS readers and anyone else who can’t see the video box below, here is the URL for the video on YouTube.

By Sheila | Permalink | 5 comments | November 17th, 2008 | Trackback
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Angela Nickerson says (November 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm)

Very cool! I love traveling by train, and this one looks quite comfortable. Thanks for sharing.

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Mara says (November 17th, 2008 at 10:57 pm)

I’ve been so curious about your trip. It was really fun to watch the video and see your companions. Thanks for sharing.

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wandermom says (November 18th, 2008 at 3:35 pm)

I cannot wait to try this out. Wow.
Definitely adding to the ‘when we go to China’ list of things to do.

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Sheila says (November 18th, 2008 at 5:57 pm)

@Angela Nickerson - I love trains, too, and quite enjoyed myself.

@Mara - I had to wait until I got home to upload it; bandwidth in China, at least where I was, was too unreliable for fiddling much with video.

@wandermom - Glad you enjoyed it!

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kirtsy.com says (November 24th, 2008 at 11:29 am)

Video: the Beijing to Shanghai Overnight Train…

A short video of the “soft sleeper” overnight passenger train from Beijing to Shanghai; I was aboard during the China 2.0 Tour for bloggers….

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