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Thread: Which is a better method of traveling, bus or train?

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[quote=BILLYBAXTER,255581]If you are travelling more than say 800km and there is a train going your way, book a soft or hard sleeper. You may have to wait 3 days! The bus system is actually fantastic with regards to availability, price and ease of securing a ticket. The standard between large cities is good. They will stop for lunch and frequent toilet stops. Of course the bus is the ONLY way to get to many smaller places and we found were more convienient than trains because the bus stations were always less crowded than rail stations, you could usually find a friendly official to help you (if you can speak a little Mandarin) and you could always be guaranteed that there would be a bus departing within 2 hours to the next place on your journey. You need a map with English/Chinese characters so that you can point to the place where you want to go. In the mountains you will feel a little unsafe but hey China is a land of humps. You have to treat the journey as an experience....the arrival time may be out by 30%. In general they seem to enforce no smoking on express/luxury buses and they sometimes have a toilet on board. On rural shorts hauls which can be 12 hour trips you have to enforce no smoking yourself if you are strong enough. Trains/planes .....easy peasy but if you want to experience raw China at close quarters get on the buses.[/quote]

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