Comrades who have been/live in China, I’m visiting sometime next year! I’ve commented about this before but it’s coming up on the new year so.
Any advice on where to go, how to behave, what to see, do? Any information would be appreciated, I’m so excited
Exciting, any idea where you’ll go?
My generic advice is to setup WeChat and Alipay payment systems. Everything runs off of one of those apps, and it’ll make your travels much easier.
I’m really interested in using the high speed rail, lol. I’d like to see the wall and other major attractions, but I also have a deep desire to see both the urban and rural areas because I know both are beautiful in that country. I want to talk to people as much as possible but having a hard time learning Mandarin so I might need to find a guide.
Ahh, is WeChat like snapchat here in the US? In terms of being super common
WeChat doesn’t have an equivalent in the US. Everyone in China uses it, even old people. On the surface it’s a chat app but it’s also integrated with payment systems and mini apps. It’s very common for a restaurant menu to just be a WeChat mini-app, I think even customs does their border forms via WeChat.
HSR between Shanghai and Beijing is a good call most of the time, only 4 hours and a well travelled route with frequent service. Helps that both cities are very much worth seeing.
