In January 2004, I went on a 6-day holiday to Northeast China. I'd never seen snow before, and had never experienced subzero temperatures, so it was quite an exciting journey for me! Through these pages I hope to share some of the vacation through photographs and my (inadequate) words.

A bit of background, first. We visited four cities in the northeastern part of China during the 2004 Lunar New Year holiday, from January 22 to 27. We flew to Beijing from Hong Kong first, then took the train up though Shenyang and Changchun to Harbin, stopping for a few hours to a day or two in each city to see the sights.

Here's a map of the route we took:

(map courtesy of Mapquest - and please excuse my horrible handwriting!)

How to use the website
Pretty easy, actually - just click 'Next' at the bottom of the page, and keep going. Or if you'd like to access a particular date, you can click from the itinerary above,
The pages may take a while to load on a slow connection, though - they are very, very graphic intensive! Please be patient.
Click any of the photographs to see larger versions - if you see one that you like and would like an even bigger version, just email me at denise at idenise dot net.

Special Section!
Apart from the regular travellog, there is a special section of the site - travel notes - that can only be accessed from this page. I wrote the travel notes on location and I based some of the travellog off these reminders, so if you look at both sections it may seem as if I am repeating myself - sorry about that! Apart from notes, there are also a couple of little sketches in there to help me remember - nothing much, but you might be interested.

Click the city you want to see notes for:
Beijing
Shenyang
Changchun
Harbin

All photos, graphics, layout and text on the following pages are © Denise Chan 2004, unless otherwise stated; please ask before using any of them. My email is denise at idenise dot net.
(Feel free to use any photo you like as wallpaper on your desktop, or your own personal use - just don't take them and use them on a website or other publication without appropriate credit.)
The dragon in the title graphic is a scanned ink drawing of my own, and the font used is 'Chinese Takeaway'  by Pizzadude.
The decorative pattern used for the top corners was copied from a window frame.
The tree background is from a photograph I took on the train from Harbin to Beijing.