Beijing to Urumqi by train

Beijing to Urumqi by train
Aug 22, 2004 00:52
PHILANDLIZ Points: Join Date: Aug 22, 2004 Status: offline	Dear fellow China lovers. We need to know about trains from Beijing to Urumqi. We want to stop off at various places on the way and do small tours. How easy is it to get the train from each place to carry on the journey to Urumqi? Is not having mandarin going to be an obstacle? Can you organise the whole thing from Beijing, or do you just buy a ticket at each stop? How frequent are the trains. Our basic itinerary would be: Beijing - Lanzhou - Liuyuan - Turpan - Urumqi.

Aug 22, 2004 00:52

PHILANDLIZ
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Dear fellow China lovers. We need to know about trains from Beijing to Urumqi. We want to stop off at various places on the way and do small tours. How easy is it to get the train from each place to carry on the journey to Urumqi? Is not having mandarin going to be an obstacle? Can you organise the whole thing from Beijing, or do you just buy a ticket at each stop? How frequent are the trains. Our basic itinerary would be: Beijing - Lanzhou - Liuyuan - Turpan - Urumqi.

Aug 23, 2004 11:12

DAISY
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First, I want to know why not to book a travel service from the Chinese travel agency, and they would arrange a ideal itinerary for you including all the attractions you want.

Second, if it is not the first time for you to visit China, and if you have known China a little better, I believe the self travel would be a great experience. And it would not be very difficult to buy the train ticket. But do remember if it is the peak season for the transportation, such as the busy period (every end of August and June, and the beginning of Sep and July which is the time for student to leave and back to university) and the golden week holiday (the 7-day holiday of the May Day and the National Day), the ticket is so hard to buy and book. So avoid the period.

Hope you have a wonderful trip ^_^

Aug 24, 2004 00:00

PHILANDLIZ
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Thanks for your reply Daisy. We tried to book tickets through China Travel Service here in HK, but couldn't. We emailed a travel agent in Beijing but have had no reply. We will be travelling from Beijing to Lanzhou on the 1st of September, so it is quite urgent. We really want to know whether it is possible to buy tickets easily at each of these stops, as foriegners. We appreciate that students may be travelling during that time, but it's more the problem of not speaking mandarin that worries us. Our problem is that we need to know all this before we start, since we have a timetable to keep to, in order to catch a plane from Urumqi to Chengdu on the 17th.
Cheers, Philip

Aug 24, 2004 10:41	#3
DAISY Points: Join Date: Mar 30, 2004 Status: Offline	Hi, Philip! I gave you two messages, hope you check them in time. I think to buy the ticket at each stop is a little bit difficult for a foreigner unless he is China travel lover, and have been to so many places himself. So book a itinerary or ask help from a travel agency would be much better. And they would buy or book the ticket for you.

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