Short trips over long weekends

We all agree Monday comes too soon. More Chinese are tacking on an extra day or two to their weekends to travel overseas, Yang Feiyue discovers.

Beijinger Zhang Feifei and four friends spent two days hauling heavy guns while hacking through the mucky woodlands - occasionally taking position in lookout towers and surveying the Russian mountainside from their jeep.

They'd tacked an extra day on either side of the weekend to hunt in the forests surrounding a mountainside farm near Russia's Lake Baikal in November.