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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Wuhan, China by TravelPod blogger Stltom titled “July 9 – 12″ Stltom’s travel blog entry: “Finally made it to the halfway point in our program and our 4-day free travel period. As mentioned in my last entry, my plans were to take a night train after class on Thursday to Wuhan, and decide there whether or not I’d have time to go to Yellow Mountain on the way back. The train ride was approximately 8 hours, and I was traveling alone for this trip so I had the freedom to decide what I wanted to do, but was also obviously a little intimidated and wishing I had at least one other person coming along. I arrived in Wuhan after a solid 3-4 hours of train sleep, since the lights went off at 1 am and came back on at 5 am for our 7:30 arrival. Fortunately, this past February I got to work with a group of 20-25 Chinese performers who came to Valpo to celebrate the opening of VU’s Confucius Institute and one of them lived in Wuhan, so at least I wouldn’t be completely alone. I met my friend and her boyfriend at the station that morning, and we waited to meet up with another one of their friends who had a car that could drive us around Wuhan. An interesting fact I didn’t know until this trip is that Wuhan is actually made up of three cities – Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang – that face each other and are separated by the Yangtze River, much like Buda and Pest in Hungary forming Budapest. I figured this out after receiving quite the scare …
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