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Travel plans to China
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For the getting in to Russia thing I did a quick Google (so don't take this as a full answer) and it seems like there's no way from Europe to get in without flights which includes a detour to Dubai or similar. Seems fucking stupid
For the China leg - The high speed rail from Peking/Beijing to Shanghai is 4-6 hours, so that part is much easier to sort out. The high speed rail goes all the way inland to Chengdu at the moment, and all the way down the coast to Guangzhou, so you can really take on most of the country just by train if you have time. I am hoping to do a high speed rail trip around China myself in the coming years. The biggest issue with visiting China, outside of language barrier, is making sure you get Visa approved early, they're quite strict with it
Another option is going in to DPRK from Beijing
Further than that. Pretty much every city is connected unless by HSR you only mean the 300kph ones. You can take the 200kph to almost everywhere, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi. Beyond that you can also take the old fashioned 绿皮 to every tiny city, it's romantic but slow and often annoying (and hot in the summer).
If you start in Beijing you can go to so many interesting places though. Go BJ-> Xi'an-> Chengdu -> Chongqing maybe. All of those are huge cities but much more interesting, cultural and lets you see some real china than going to Shanghai. Don't go to Shanghai, it's more like an international city, and anything you can see there you can also see in more interesting cities.
True. I was also thinking about this after I found some backpacking tips on the different routes. Definitely would want to see as much as we can. Ending up in Shanghai was the plan, but the route to get there is open.
Was looking at this: https://onthewayaround.com/china-itinerary/#A_4-Week_China_Itinerary. No idea if this is good advice, because it sure has brainworms in it. Also not interested in Hong Kong.