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Guesthouses and cafes with wifi internet

We will be traveling through China the next couple of months and are looking for inexpensive guesthouses with wifi internet or ADSL in the room so that we can connect a laptop. The cities we'll visit include Kashgar, Urumqi, Xi'an, Beijing, Shainghai,... ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Fri, Oct 19 2007

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