FakefakeLee
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China is my 61st country 🇨🇳
📍 Next stop - Yangshuo, Guangxi
Here’s what I found interesting:
- Incredible nature - one of the most unique and beautiful landscapes I’ve seen. Karst mountains full of greenery, rice field and rivers.
- Huge area - you can easily travel 2-3 hours between locations and the road will be insanely gorgeous
- Didi (local Uber) works everywhere, even in pretty far away locations around the area. Prices are very low - like $15 for the 2 hrs airport ride.
- Nobody speaks English - at all, even in 5* hotels with only EU/US clientele. All communication is via translator apps which becomes a habit pretty quickly. Though, locals have a funny habit of explaining things in Chinese very loudly if they see you don’t get it.
- Squat toilets everywhere - maybe, 1 seated toilet for 10 squat cabins. Seems to be a thing in China in general.
- Tourism built for Chinese travellers, not foreigners - majority of signs and menus are not translated, sometimes difficult to translate via apps, too. However, most restaurants have pictures in menus.
- Seen quite a few locals laughing at / mocking tourists for not understanding the way everything works, which isn’t friendly tbh, especially as you’re low-key overwhelmed all the time trying to find the right places, anyways. I got laughed at as I was supposed to remember the number of the tuktuk-like bus that brought me to view point, though, they changed the vehicle like 3 times. Had to pay extra.
- A lot of great specialty coffee shops with beautiful rice fields & mountains views, gives Bali vibes. Though there’s no culture of resting from the looks of it. Service felt very rushed and not too friendly.
- Local villages seem very poor and living in old ways despite all the advances of the country in general and heavy touristic traffic.

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