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Chapter 1

Welcome to Chapter 1 of our journey!
This chapter marks our journey along the Silk Road. We will be traveling overland 🚂🚌🛥️ (without airplanes❌ ✈️) from Toronto 🇨🇦 to Hong Kong🇭🇰! Leer más
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  • Inicio del viaje
    6 de diciembre de 2023
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    Day 2: Ellis Island

    7 de diciembre de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C

    Ellis Island was the busiest immigration inspection and processing station in the past! The museum on the Island has a lot of information for you to learn how immigration inspection on the Island in the past. ✅ However, we were a bit tired after the long overnight bus ride and a long walk today, we just had a short visit there. The ticket to the Statue of Liberty includes the access to the Ellis Island!Leer más

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    Day 23: Kews Royal Botanic Garden

    28 de diciembre de 2023, Inglaterra ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Our first visiting spot in London! We first took the train to Richmond station, then walk to here. This Royal Botanic Garden is huge! Today was tough because of the weather 🌧☀️🌧☀️ So we got wet, dry, wet, dry as well. It didn’t help when we had to carry our laundry with us for the visit as the weather is so humid that it was so difficult to dry the clothes in the UK. Therefore, instead of doing laundry at our friend’s place, we decided to find a laundromat. But, laundromat is not that common in the UK apparently. Lucky that there was one next to the Garden, so we decided to bring our laundry with us to the Garden 🤣

    The Garden has a few green houses to visit. The most impressive one is the 2-storey green house at next to the Victoria Gate Entrance. We have never seen such a giant green house before. It was also one of the more ancient green house, which a lot of the modern ones followed its architectural design. (Like the tiny green house in the University of Guelph, it had similar design as this one). Despite the weather and weight, we actually had a lot of fun just walking around the area.

    After visiting this place, we went off to do our laundry 🧺 after that, we went to the Kews Garden underground station to take the Tube back to Wimbledon😉    Leer más

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    Day 24: London Waterloo Station

    29 de diciembre de 2023, Inglaterra ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Our plan was to walk around Downtown London today. We got the 2For1 National Rail ticket promotion to purchase the Westminster Abbey tickets. However, to fulfill the offer, you have to go to London by train (instead of tube). So we took the train to the nearest train station, Waterloo Station. It was one of the biggest transport hubs in London. We are shocked to see that it has 24 train platforms 😮 probably one of the most giant train stations that we have ever seen!Leer más

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    Day 24: Westminster Abbey

    29 de diciembre de 2023, Inglaterra

    Westminster Abbey! Today first started with disappointment, then turned out to be a lucky day! The adventure started with Westminster Abbey. Since we would like to use the 2For1 promotion offered by the National Rail, we could only get the tickets on-site. However, we saw a sign saying ‘unfortunately, all tickets are sold out today’. Chris was brave enough to ask the staff about the offer. The staff just let us in. We discovered that the 2For1 promotion was an express entry. We didn’t even have to queue up with other people who had online reservation! We could get in to the Abbey within 5 minutes. So thankful that Chris has asked the staff and we didn’t waste our day.

    This was my second (Chris’s first) visit to the Abbey. It is a royal church still offering services for all. It has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and burial site for different English, Scottish and British monarchs.

    Ticket price is a bit steep, £29 per person. With the 2For1 offer, we paid £29 for two of us. We spent a few hours inside with the self-guided tour. Such a nice UNESCO World Heritage to visit!    Leer más

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