GUIYANG, May 20 (Xinhua) — At 69, Zhu Guichu loves sightseeing but is not fond of air travel. So in planning his recent eight-day trip to Laos, the retiree from China’s Guizhou Province opted for a tourist train.
On March 8, Zhu joined a 200-member tour group to visit the Southeast Asian nation. A “panda train” took them to the border area of Yunnan Province, where they transferred to the China-Laos Railway to