In 2015 I did a business trip to China for 20 days. It was my first time there and even working, I knew I'd have the weekend to enjoy a little bit. So usually when I go to travel I research something about the weather, nice places to visit and to shop, and transportions available. I could not imagine and I didn't read in any blog that I'd be offline of my networks there (i missed instagram and google so much!).
So, when I first arrived at the hotel, no one could speak english (the company in China reserverd the hotel for me and they forgot to check it), but I downloaded and translator app and it served me well. As I would spend a while there, I bought a chip for my mobile so I would have internet, I don't remember exactly how much it was, but it was a fair price. Another thing that I found different was the toillets outside the hotel. I remeber like it was yesterday my face when I was at the office and asked where was to toillet and when I entered in it, it was simply a hole on the floor. I was like.. really? I mean, in the begining it is a little bit messy, but with time you get used to it.
Chinese people are culturally different from us, so it's normal if someone farts or burps in a restaurant for example. Also queues doesn't exists as well, at the end everybody tries to be the first.
My first stop (and where I stayed longer) was in Hangzhou, so during my free time I used to go out to shop something different to eat in some local market around. I learned a few words like hi, thank you, some names of foods and vegetarian meal (as I'm a vegetarian). And talking about vegetarian, I had no problem there to find nice food, actually I felt glad to be a vegetarian there, as some chinese people at the office told me that they eat all kind of meats there, and the only one that they don't eat is human meat (thanks god!). Well, back to what I did in Hangzhou, there is a huge and beautiful park there called Xixi National Wetland Park, it is nice to go with time for a walk and there are a few stores there where you can buy some souvenirs and some silk that is tipical from that region. Another lovely place that I visited there was the West Lake, there is a tower there where the view is amazing! It's really worth!
I went to some shopping malls as well and in the city centre there is a place where it is really cheap buying all kind of stuff mostly cloths.. I mean... really cheap. The name of the place is Yan'an Road. In China you have to bargain everything.
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| Xixi National Wetland Park |
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| West Lake |
I also went to Zhenghou, but there I just went to the Zhongyuan Tower. The view is really impressive and I could watch the sunset from there. There is a place up in the tower where you can walk on glass floor so amazing! And before the top floor you can see a kind of 360º movie where I believe they tell the history of the region, it is just in chinese.
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| Zhongyuan Tower |
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| Zhongyuan Tower |
I also went to a small town called Anyang. There is the Museum of chinese writing, it's huge and so beautiful. There is just a pitty that the city around is not so beautiful as well.
The last city and my favorite was Shenzhen. I loved that city! The metro works really well and I could do everything by myself, and most of the hotels have occidental breakfast. And I found cheese there! :) OMG, I missed cheese so much. Well I stayed in a hotel close to Dogmen Shopping Street, the best place to shopping and I did it a lot during the weekend. I Shenzhen almost everybody speaks english, so I had no problem. Also in Shenzhen the weather is more tropical, lovely!
To travel around China I went sometimes by plane and others by train. The fast speed train was nice and the beds inside the train where confortable. It was really good.
I didn't have time to go to Beijin, but it's on my list. Maybe next time. ;)
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