The second part of an article on a bicycle trip to southern China and a tour of Shanghai, Beijing, The Great Wall and Xian. A short night at the our hotel in Hong Kong, an exchange of luggage with the Concierge and then Pat and I catch a flight to Shanghai. Our northern tour will take us to Shanghai, Beijing and Xian then back to Hong Kong-planes and busses and a train, no bikes. We board a Boeing 767 that is only a few months old.
All domestic flights are non-smoking.
Safety announcements and seat belt signs are turned on for take-off and sometimes for landings. The flight to Shanghai has a Chinese movie with sub-titles in Chinese characters and English. It takes most of a day to get between cities in China. Four of the eight days on this tour are spent getting to and wait- ing in airports, flying, getting luggage, assembling our group and getting to the hotel. This tour is modular.