“Why didn’t I train for this?” I ask myself, only 20 minutes into my week-long cycling vacation.
It’s the October national holiday vacation week, when practically all of China goes somewhere else. During “Golden Week,” trains and planes are all booked up and traffic is clogged.
My husband and I have signed up with the Hutong, a small independent cultural center and school based in Beijing, for a week-long cycling and cultural tour of Xishuangbanna, in the southernmost part of Yunnan province, which is itself in the far southwest of China. With all logistical and travel arrangements taken care of, it promises to be the kind of stress-free break that we so crave…
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