Various Means of Transportation

The Chinese have a saying: "you can get there by number 11 bus". The 11 stands for your two legs so what they are saying is that you walk. We did lots of walking in China, more than 11,000 steps on some days. We know that because one of our fellow travelers wore a pedometer.
In the photo below we are taking the number 11 bus along the Sacred Way of the Ming Tombs near Beijing.

Our rickshaw ride was leg-powered but with a bicycle.


The dragon boat below was one we took on Kunming Lake which is near the summer palace in Beijing.

This much larger dragon boat met our boat on a three day cruise we took on the Yangtze River. Our ship was not as fierce but was brand new and very nice.

While on the Yangtze we took a side canyon that was too small for our big ship so we were taken up the Shennong Stream by these "peapod" boats.

One day we took a hike up the steep stone path to the mountain town of Long Sheng and the "Dragon Spine Terraces". I opted to be carried in a litter chair with a porter in front and another in back. In the first photo they are securing plastic wrap to the chair so that I will not get wet in the pouring rain. For the trip down the rain had stopped.


From Nanjing to Suzhou we took the bullet train. The speed showed on a panel in the train car. We reached speeds of 325 kilometers an hour.

In the pretty water town of Tongli near Shanghai we went for a gondola ride. All of the boats were propelled by women. Bill gave it a try and found it much more difficult than it appeared.


Not pictured were the various plane rides that we took around the country nor the many bus rides. In addition we took two aerial gondola rides, one to the top of the Great Wall.