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Thread: 2 Week Travel starting in Beijing. Need advice!

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[quote=CHRISWAUGHBJ,39138]The pedant returns: Just to avoid any confusion, Pingyao is in Shanxi 山西, whose capital is Taiyuan, not to be confused with Shaanxi 陕西, whose capital is Xi'an.

Also, I'd advise choosing between Wutaishan and Songshan if there's only two weeks to play with. If you choose Songshan, I'd go Beijing direct to Xi'an, then to either Luoyang or Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou could be a good base for exploring Songshan/Shaolin and Kaifeng, being smack in the middle of the two, both being easy day trips from Zhengzhou.

Another option, but one which skips Xi'an, could be Beijing-Datong, see the Yungang Grottoes, Hanging Temple, etc, on to Wutaishan, then Pingyao, down to Zhengzhou, from where you do day trips to Songshan/Shaolin and Kaifeng, then down to Shanghai, perhaps making a few stops along the way, depending on time. Nanjing and Suzhou could be good stopovers on that last leg of the trip, or maybe Huangshan. Of course, that suggestion means spending a lot of time in Shanxi, also known as the world's biggest collection of coal mines, but Shanxi has a huge amount of history to it, a lot of it very well preserved, so it may be worth it.[/quote]

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