Avoid Shanghai And Beijing If You Want To See The Real China
So you want to see the real China then? Well read on for a bit of decent advice into how to properly dip your toes into the world's largest country by population. One thing you need to know first is that visiting Shanghai and Beijing are not really visiting China. The reason is these places now have street signs in English, an influx of foreign workers and they are well connected with internet, telephone and all modern communications. To see the real China you need to avoid those two big cities and get out into the obscure countryside where China breathes the way it really lives.
First up, by China I mean for the most part mainland China. I don't include Macau, Hong Kong or Taiwan in that. I also respect Tibetan freedom and don't include Tibet as part of China. These are what I class as 4 Chinese countries, but not part of China. So as well as avoiding Beijing and Shanghai, you need to avoid those 4 places too in order to really see China. Rather than bore with the reasons why, I'm just going to tell you that I've been to China 10 times and the worst two places I have been so far have been Shanghai and Beijing. And by a long way. Beijing and Shanghai are almost on a par with Hong Kong and Singapore as being global cities these days, therefore their Chinese-ness is being phased out (there are loads of foreigners living in those two cities!). They won't stop to notice though as the money flows in...
Until you sit down in a village that nobody has ever heard of, to eat food you've never seen, miles from any major city and with no other foreigners or foreign writing in sight, then you haven't really seen China!
Get yourself off the beaten track in order to see the real China. Here are a few things you will do that proves you have really seen China:
1. No-one is sight speaks a word of English, some of them only speak a local dialect which isn't even Chinese Mandarin!
2. You get totally lost on a bus and end up stranded.
3. There are more chickens than there are cars in the place you are staying in.
4. There are no mobile phones or internet connections anywhere.
5. You don't see any other language than Chinese written anywhere!
6. You eat food without ever knowing (or wanting to know) what is in it!
So that's a decent guide folks - if you've seen and ticked those six then you really have done China. If not, please check it out, but don't forget to avoid those major cities particularly Beijing and Shanghai! Get away from those two and your travel possibilities becomes extreme, endless and unrivalled. China is a whole new world to discover!
First up, by China I mean for the most part mainland China. I don't include Macau, Hong Kong or Taiwan in that. I also respect Tibetan freedom and don't include Tibet as part of China. These are what I class as 4 Chinese countries, but not part of China. So as well as avoiding Beijing and Shanghai, you need to avoid those 4 places too in order to really see China. Rather than bore with the reasons why, I'm just going to tell you that I've been to China 10 times and the worst two places I have been so far have been Shanghai and Beijing. And by a long way. Beijing and Shanghai are almost on a par with Hong Kong and Singapore as being global cities these days, therefore their Chinese-ness is being phased out (there are loads of foreigners living in those two cities!). They won't stop to notice though as the money flows in...
Until you sit down in a village that nobody has ever heard of, to eat food you've never seen, miles from any major city and with no other foreigners or foreign writing in sight, then you haven't really seen China!
Get yourself off the beaten track in order to see the real China. Here are a few things you will do that proves you have really seen China:
1. No-one is sight speaks a word of English, some of them only speak a local dialect which isn't even Chinese Mandarin!
2. You get totally lost on a bus and end up stranded.
3. There are more chickens than there are cars in the place you are staying in.
4. There are no mobile phones or internet connections anywhere.
5. You don't see any other language than Chinese written anywhere!
6. You eat food without ever knowing (or wanting to know) what is in it!
So that's a decent guide folks - if you've seen and ticked those six then you really have done China. If not, please check it out, but don't forget to avoid those major cities particularly Beijing and Shanghai! Get away from those two and your travel possibilities becomes extreme, endless and unrivalled. China is a whole new world to discover!
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Title: Avoid Shanghai And Beijing If You Want To See The Real China
Author: Jonny Blair
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Keywords: china,travel,backpacking,shanghai,beijing,nomads,asia,global travellers
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