by | November 17th, 2008
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.
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Very cool! I love traveling by train, and this one looks quite comfortable. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been so curious about your trip. It was really fun to watch the video and see your companions. Thanks for sharing.
I cannot wait to try this out. Wow.
Definitely adding to the ‘when we go to China’ list of things to do.
@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!