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Orientation and arrival
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The bulk of Changsha is spread east of the
Xiang River
, and the city's name - literally "Long Sand" - derives from a narrow midstream bar, now called
Jiezi Dao
, Tangerine Island. The river itself is spanned by the lengthy Xiangjiang Bridge, which links the city to the west bank suburbs,
Yuelu Academy
and parkland.
Wuyi Lu
is Changsha's main drag and forms a very unfocused downtown district, divided into eastern (Dong Lu), middle (Zhong Lu) and western (Xi Lu) sections as it runs broad and straight for 4km across the city.
The
airport
is 15km east of town, connected to the airline offices on Wuyi Lu by a
shuttle bus
(A?20). Changsha's
train station
is conveniently central at the eastern end of Wuyi Dong Lu, but the three
long-distance bus stations
are all several kilometres out of town in the suburbs, any one of which you could wind up at: to reach the train station, catch
city bus
#126 from the east bus station (4km); bus #312 from the west bus station (8km); or bus #107 from the south bus station (10km). Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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