China: Trams in the South
November 2025

 

UPDATE from 12. June 2025:

this tour will run! Prices and confirmations from Hong Kong and Taiwan are still pending, but they will be coming in over the next few weeks. The travel dates will not change. If you are interested in the entire trip or parts of the tour, please send me a short email so I can work with the correct group sizes with hotels and bus companies.

I am accepting bookings for the trip at any time, but I will not be able to confirm them until the beginning of September. Invoicing, including the travel bond certificate, will be issued from this date, too. Also from the beginning of September, I will again have access to preferred airfares for tour operators and will then be able to create corresponding flight bookings.

We're making progress - thank you for your patience!


On this new tram tour we will explore as many southern Chinese tram systems as possible. The detailed planning is still ongoing, and our ideas include visits to Chengdu, Dujiangyan, Kunming, Qiubei, Mengzi, Sanya, Guandong and Shenzhen. The monorail in Guan'an and of course the legendary monorail routes in Chongqing are also a must. If there is still time, extensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan would be possible.

Problem: there is too much to see in a limited travel time - and anyone who knows me is aware of the fact that I like to stop for one or two tourist highlights. Being in Chengdu without having seen the pandas or driving past Guilin without visiting the Karst Mountains...

Although many cities have built tram systems, their future is not guaranteed everywhere. A city administration that sets up a new network with the stroke of a pen can also quickly shut down operations again. Many lines are bets on the future and were of course built based on economic considerations. If these bets are not fulfilled, small networks without real demand or interaction with other transport systems are at risk of extinction.

We will know more details about the exact shape of this tour to the streetcars of Southern China around November 2024. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please do not hesitate to share them with me. I am always happy to receive relevant information. Just write me an email.


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