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In this Intrepid Journey to China, actor-director Katie Wolfe takes her "appalling sense of direction" to a country caught between old ways and new. Wolfe travels by plane, boat, rickshaw, and train ("trains really are the perfect way to travel. I can't help feeling frustrated that we have given away rail travel in NZ"). She visits the Blade Runner-like cityscapes of Shanghai, the Forbidden City of Beijing, and heads up the Yangtze river, visiting ghostly towns and apartment blocks, drained of people by "ruthless" dam construction.

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Series Perspective by Paul Stanley Ward 08.03.2009

The inspiration for Intrepid Journeys came from Jam TV's Melanie Rakena's passion for adventure travel. Having experienced the exhilaration of ...

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 Jane Andrews
 Melanie Rakena
 Katie Wolfe

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