China (Changsa, Hunan) Aug/Sept 2011

Map of Changsa, Hunan

Hostel: Changsa Y70 ( dorm x 2 nights)
How Flowers Hostel, Guilin - Y25 ( 1 night)
Train: Xining > Zhengzhou - Y175 (hard seat)
Zhengzhou > Changsa - Y120 (hard seat)
Changsa > Guilin - Y67 (hard seat)
Food & groceries: Y172
airport bus: Y20
Bus: Y24
Cable car: Y50
Day tour (Mao's residence): Y70

Total cost incurred (5days) : Y793 (Rm380)

" Revolutionary thinkers, prominent communist leaders hailed from Hunan, Chairman's Mao birth place in Shaoshan village, Autumn Harvest Uprising (1927), The Long March, People's Power, Chinese Communist Party (CCM), Communist takeover of China in 1949, death of Chairman Mao in 1976 - I come to Shaoshan to pay my respect to the great Chairman Mao " 

Train ride from Zhengzhou (Capital, Hunan) > Changsa, Hunan

Zhengzhou Train Station, Hunan

Zhengzhou Tourist Bus Station, Hunan

San Wang Street, Changsa, Hunan

1) Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsa, Hunan - houses the 2100 year old Western Han tombs of Mawangdui & a mummified remains of a Han dynasty woman, wrapped in 20 layers of silk & linen.

2) Tangerine Island & Mao Zedong Statutes, Mt Yeulu Scenic Resort, Changsa, Hunan

3) Yuelu Park, Changsa, Hunan - cable car ride Y50

4) Hunan Martyrs Memorial Park, Changsa

5) Liew Sao Zhi residence in Shao Shan, Hunan - day tour package to Mao's & Liew Sao Zhi Residence Y70

6) Mao Zedong childhood home, Shao Shan, Hunan

7) Walkabout in Changsa city, Hunan

" Walk your own path. Let others say what they like "