Arise from the dead… (again) to China

i know i know, i haven’t updated my blog…

but this is news too exciting to not mention a bit. I will be going traveling to china with my mum to visit my aunt and self tour china! man, takes lots of planning… but if the plan works, i will then at least have some experience on self-tour. (not exactly back-pack, but close to) And i now know how important TAGS are… because i found information through google -> arrived at people’s blog -> and got great info.

so i hereby, shall want to credit some of the sites that helped me plan, what to expect, what to try out and such: (hopefully my plans will turn out okay)

Maps: okay, the maps are not so great… but at least i can find some! O_o some terrible resolution but ah well better than nothing, remind me to get maps from china…
http://www.maps-of-china.net/index.html
there are maps of china, provincial, district and city maps… important if u want to plan your route from one place to another and navigate through the city (though i believe we can just get maps when we reach there)

Guides
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/
click the place u want to visit and they show u areas of interest
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/
this one works better for me, full of information, history and description of places of interest, plus some details of admission fees and what bus to take..
edit: lots of comments, entries and stuff bout travels to china
http://www.chinatravel.net/

cheap lodgings:
http://www.yhachina.com/
there’s yha other countries too, so check it out…
hostels name, address, telephone no., website, etc…

http://precious-living.com/category/travel/hangzhou-travel-2/
someone who visited hangzhou and huang shan
great insights

http://blog.holachina.net/?cat=27
this person been to a lot of places in china, i didn’t check out all, but the most useful one to me was the Wuzhen’s post.
edit: omg no, there’s an actual website! full of information <3 awesome!
http://holachina.com/

lost of info can be found through google, even info on comments, and especially forums, Q&A helps a lot! just try to use different different kind of keywords search

okay, of course u can just go to the book shop to but some book, but why waste free resources? when u have all the time in the world :p

one of the major things i haven’t done…
Budgeting! i foresee a great spending on our part, which is totally un-bagpacker-safemoney-selftour-like… XD