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Originally Posted by MrBlue
Just wanted to hop in here and say my buddy and I are taking a 40 day trip to China to all the places in the thread title and more starting April 2nd. Here's an itinerary that my friend put together:
http://travel.yahoo.com/trip-view-14...W3fhQPEB5SfMgF
Slightly out of date already as some plans have changed and yahoo trip planner is a pain in the ass to update.
I just completed this trip about a week ago. We saw almost everything we listed on our itinerary plus a few more. It was an incredible trip and helped a lot that my friend grew up in China and speaks fluent Mandarin.
In summary, the best sight I saw on this trip was Huangshan (Yellow Mountain). A lot of climbing and very tiring but well worth the trip. The most disappointing was Xi'an and the terra cotta warriors. I feel that if you've seen one picture before, you've seen it all. It's not like LiJiang or Huangshan where it's difficult to capture it in a photograph.
Since we entered everything into BillMonk, I could come up with an accurate number for everything we paid for on the trip. It came out to just under 6,000 USD for me including flights, hotels, cabs, entrance tickets, drinks, food, and etc for our 5 week stay in China/HK/Taiwan.
I feel there's still a good 3-4 weeks left of sightseeing to do in China so I'll probably visit again when I hit south east Asia the next time.