In short
* Great ECOLOGY
* Great EXTERIOR
* Lots and lots of PEOPLE
* People're HAPPY
* Powerful GOVERNMENT
Visited Cities
* Beijing (airport, beijing roasted duck).
* Chengdu (downtown, panda zoo, yummy fruits, electronics marketplace).
* Leshan (bicycle-rickshaw, mountain sitting Buddah, gorgeous busy little town, great tasty diners).
* Emeishan (50km stairway, Grand Buddah, wild monkeys).
* Guilin (LiYangFen girl, Ana FOLGAR girl).
* Yangsho (enormous amount of fun, biking, swimming, village observation).
* Guanchzhou (world largest Chimelong water park, luxurious 6-floor bath-house).
* Shanghai (TV tower, Shanghai Scientific & Technological Museum, financial centre, photo camera marketplace, Juha-Matti LEHTINEN a.k.a Junnu, Silja TIRRONEN).
Common notes
* Hi-tech country even in villages.
* 100 times more livable ecology condition compared to Russian one. Clean streets. Fresh air.
* People respect each other in subway, on a street, in a diner, everywhere.
* Everyone tries to make a good living if they have any chance to do it,
if they don't, they still do it (moto- or bicycle-rickshaw, resell food for
a little bit more expensive prices far away where there is no food yet, and so on).
* Government cares about ecology by renting electro-bikes, free excellent-quality
public toilet service, brilliant subway).
* If the nation wants something, they get it.
* Cheap diners for everyone (a decent dinner may cost less than $1).
* Adore english native speakers (pay decent salary which can make a nice living for you,
invite to school with free meals and so on).
* It's totally safe, but as an American guy Shoan (who lived in China for
a year already and I met at ChengDu RW station) told me: «You should carry your shit in
front of you in a street». His laptop got cut out of his backpack. He lost much money
and so on and so forth. I also left $400 in a hotel appartment and after couple hours
after I came back it was gone.
* Chinese people are smart: in huge cities they construct tall hi-tech beautiful
buildings (like TV tower in Shanghai) and then make lots and lots of money by selling
tickets to visit those building. Also another tourist's sightseeing places (for example they
have the largest ChimeLong Water Park in the world and I've been to that gorgeous place
-- it's mind blowing).
* Their streets are as beautiful and remarkable as our house interrior in
Russia. Our streets are ugly, dirty and disgusting because we don't care
about it, we live at home. At work we probably develop some computer program
interfaces, we care about what we see on TeleVision.
On contrary, chinese people don't live at home, they hate computers, they
live in a street, outdoor, they are closer to nature. That is why there is
always something to see outside.
* It gradually becomes harder and harder as the journey goes on, but extremely
important to take as many photos and video clips as possible.
Transportation
* Plane (God, thank you for chinese stewardesses -- they are angels made of
human flesh).
* RW (6 position compartment vs 4 position in Russia; much and much cleaner;
washing place by the toilet; air conditioned or at least propellered;
expensive trains have LCD screens).
* Taxi (very cheap, as fast as possible).
* Subway (really hi-tech, pleasant and convenient to use).
* Rickshaw (fun to experience, not as fast as taxi or subway).
* Electro- and gas-bikes (extremely cheap).
Food
* Amazing: it tastes surprising and different and really good.
* Cheap (especially fruits and vegetables).
Trip notes
* Hard to satisfy interests of such a big group of 4 people all at the same moment.
* Kinda difficult to walk the whole (or a half a) day with huge backpacks,
it's better to keep em in a hotel.
* Subway is much cheaper than taxi cab (which isn't expensive) and easy to use.
* Traveling in a foreign country without native language speaker is way easier
provided you've got a fairly detailized map of each city you want to visit.
Also a native language phrase-book would be rather helpful.
Brother's photos→
Also, electric scooters...
