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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Mexico, Mexico by TravelPod blogger Teamradiant titled “Mexico City & Teotihuacan”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Teamradiant’s travel blog entry: “We left LA at 5 am and after a 5 hour flight we arrived in Cancun, Mexico. With hardly any sleep, we had a connecting flight the next afternoon, so rather than booking into a hotel, minimum of 0 dollars a night per person we decided to rough it out at the airport like a bunch of scummy travellers. After experiencing a day and a night in the life of what Tom Hanks character went through in the film ‘The Terminal’ whilst we waited for our connecting flight at Cancun airport, we arrived in Mexico City. After booking into the Lonely Planet approved hostel, Mxico City Hostel, which by the way was pretty cool, though a bit cold, though the showers were hot and very clean, and the internet although free had machines that were built in the Dark Ages. The people who ran it Barbara and Paulina were the most friendly and kind people we had met and instantly we all had a really good feel about Mexico and the Mexican people. Mexico City has a great buzz about it and we are lucky enough to be staying as central as we could be, right in the historical part of Mexico City. Even though it was a big city, the people were friendly and warm and were even more so if you tried to speak Spanish to them, regardless of your level of fluency, they really appreciated the fact that we were …
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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Pingyao, China by TravelPod blogger Lyndshane titled “Time warp!”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Lyndshane’s travel blog entry: “Instead of taking the more classic backpacker route through China from Beijing down to Shanghai and then on to Hong Kong, we thought we’d try something a bit different. This meant abandoning a visit to Shanghai in exchange for visiting a few spots a little more inland. There’s no denying that we’d like to see Shanghai but with only a month or so in China, we can only see so much and at the end of the day Shanghai is just another massive city with not nearly as much history as say, Beijing. We had also begun to hear horror stories of exorbitantly priced accommodations and sold-out trains to Shanghai, all in the name of the World Expo 2010. After a little digging, we settled on the ancient city of Pingyao for our next stop, which is about 600km southwest from Beijing. We selected Pingyao because it is relatively small by Chinese city standards (only 450000 people) and is supposed to be the best preserved of the country’s remaining ancient walled cities. The ride to Pingyao was an experience all its own, the classic tale of two sides. The first leg of the trip had us on a super-fast, ultra-comfortable modern train where we were surrounded by what would be considered China’s middle/upper class citizens. We reached speeds of 220km and it barely felt like we were moving! This leg of the …
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