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China Train Ticket Agency

I'm looking to reserve Shanghai-Beijing and Beijing-Moscow train tickets and am wondering what reputable companies would be suggested which deliver to hotels. I've seen a lot of references to chinatripadvisor.com, but they recently jacked up the... ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Tue, May 22 2007

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