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By plane: Although Jilin is an outlying province in the northeastern
part of China (Dongbei), it is still fairly easy to access by plane. The easiest point to
enter and leave the province is by Changchun, the
capital, which is linked with major cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai by daily flights and
others including Qingdao, Xiamen and Chengdu. Also, if you can
arrange visas in advance, a trip to Vladivostok is also possible. In
winter, throngs of people opt to skip Changchun and fly straight
to Jilin City to
enjoy the Ice Lantern Festival. By train: Jilin boasts a cobweb of rail links, with an aggregate
length of over 4,000km. An excess of 80 trains shuttle to and from Changchun. Even today,
a considerable proportion of the travelers go to Jilin on a sleeper train from such
faraway places as Beijing, Shanghai and even Xi"an! If you are based in
Jilin City, it is also convenient to travel within Jilin (and without to cities such as Harbin and Shengyang). By bus: To do justice to road transport, it is the least advanced of
the three. However, backwardness does not mean impossibility--you will still find that
inter-province transport is reliable and the quality of Beijing-Changchun
Expressway is among the best of its kind in China. The area of Changbaishan, which houses
the province"s most popular sight, The
Heavenly Lake (Tianchi), is one area that can only be reached by road. See the Changbaishan
Transportation Overview for details. |
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