Travel Route and accomodations

1) Beijing - arriving on May 12th
From Beijing we're thinking of making a day trip to a town called Chengde and of course also to The Great Wall of China.. apart from the in town tourist sights

Chengde

The forbidden city (Beijing)

The great wall of china

2) Xi'an - arriving on May 17th
The home of the Terracotta Warriors. We're also making a trip to Hua Shan

Hua shan

Hua shan (no way we are doing this...)

Terracotta warriors

Xian

3) Chengdu - arriving on May 20th
This is where the planes leave to Lhasa. Also Panda Breeding Center and nearby Dafo Leshan (a giant Buddha carved out of a rock).

Dafo Leshan

Chengdu


4) Lhasa - arriving on May 25th
A few days rest and sight seeing in Lhasa, then off to visit Shigatze, Gyantse, Yamdrok Lake, Tingri, Rongbuk and of course the Mt Everest Base camp!!!

Potala palace in Lhasa

Rongbuk monastery, Tibet (Mt Everest is in the background)

Shigatze

Tingri

Gyantse

Yamdrok lake

5) Shanghai - arriving on June 3rd (going back to Sweden on the 10th of June)
Making a few days excursion to the cities of Suzhou (where we're staying two nights.. known as the Venice of China and also home of many silk manufactures), Tongli and Zhouzhuang.

Shanghai

Zhouzhuang

Tongli

Suzhou


Accomodations
Beijing: staying at Red Lantern House, supposed to be a hostel built in a typical chinese court yard style in one of the Hutongs in Beijing

Xi'an: staying at Bell Tower Youth Hostel

Chengdu: staying at Mix Hostel Chengdu Guesthouse

Shanghai: staying at Mingtown Hiker Youth Hostel
Suzhou: staying at Suzhou Youth Hostel

The prices for our accomodations (and we do have our own seperate bathroom at all hostels..) rates from 56 SEK to 103 SEK. If we wouldnt have chosen own bathrooms, the prices would be less than the half :)