8 years ago I spent 6 weeks backpacking around China with 2 friends. Best holiday ever! We did some brutally long and uncomfortable train journeys (the longest was 58 hours), stayed in several roach-infested hostels, I once had to shower in the most communal shower in the world (I think everyone in Urumqi's seen me naked), we saw some of the grimmest toilets on the planet and had MANY arguments with people trying to rip us off (we had almost no money) but we saw the Great Wall (both ends) and the terracotta warriors, we rode down the Yellow River in a raft made from inflated dead sheep, climbed up a glacier (and got altitude sickness), crossed the Gobi Desert, saw the pandas in Chengdu, got high in Yunnan. And generally learnt a lot about each other and ourselves.
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