Visit Beijing - 5 Things You WIll Love & Hate about Beijing, China - Wolters World
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Date: 2022-02-04
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Xuanyi
This one is very true, Wolter is a very experienced traveller in China, hope you can many more trips in the country. Maybe go to places with less people. The great world city is really really beautiful and wonderful, but there are many people there. I have tried one time to not visit badaling part of the great world and start hiking and visiting in other parts and there are less people there. You can try this next time with your friends, language is a big problem. I am a Singaporean and I know Chinese, but I have pretended to not understanding Chinese, the taxi driver could not understand. Print out the address is very important, because you know abroaders are finding hard to pronounce Chinese words. I found that it is even hard to communicate with Chinese waiters inside a hotel, only inside the international hotels it is possible. But normal people won't understand you, even in Shanghai it is better. And if you go on to any city to enjoy the street foods there, you might not even understand the price, people can't even pronounce numbers in English very well. Haha, and in Beijing, I support to travel to the nearby city Tianjin, there you can find way more places to visit, and also knowing the Chinese histories very well in the city with 600 years histories. Go to Tianjin guwenhua(old culture street) to buy some Chinese traditional staff and go eat the Beijing roasted duck in 831 is also a choice to not line up for many times in Beijing.
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This one is very true, Wolter is a very experienced traveller in China, hope you can many more trips in the country. Maybe go to places with less people. The great world city is really really beautiful and wonderful, but there are many people there. I have tried one time to not visit badaling part of the great world and start hiking and visiting in other parts and there are less people there. You can try this next time with your friends, language is a big problem. I am a Singaporean and I know Chinese, but I have pretended to not understanding Chinese, the taxi driver could not understand. Print out the address is very important, because you know abroaders are finding hard to pronounce Chinese words. I found that it is even hard to communicate with Chinese waiters inside a hotel, only inside the international hotels it is possible. But normal people won't understand you, even in Shanghai it is better. And if you go on to any city to enjoy the street foods there, you might not even understand the price, people can't even pronounce numbers in English very well. Haha, and in Beijing, I support to travel to the nearby city Tianjin, there you can find way more places to visit, and also knowing the Chinese histories very well in the city with 600 years histories. Go to Tianjin guwenhua(old culture street) to buy some Chinese traditional staff and go eat the Beijing roasted duck in 831 is also a choice to not line up for many times in Beijing.
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Cedric
I can't agree more with the 5th thing you're gonna hate about Beijing. I've read many prominent travel guides of Beijing like Lonely Planet and the majority of the content remained pretty much the same although Beijing has changed so rapidly over the last 10 years. The number of subway lines has tripled, newly erected shopping malls are everywhere and there's so much going on inside the National Center for the Performing Arts (world-class performances of classical music as well as traditional Chinese music) and National Museum of China (top-notch new exhibitions) and so many other places that the editors don't even know about _ Beijing is crowded with locals and people from other places who don't even know how to cross the streets, and the pollution is terrible, but the cultural life here is definitely world-class.
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I can't agree more with the 5th thing you're gonna hate about Beijing. I've read many prominent travel guides of Beijing like Lonely Planet and the majority of the content remained pretty much the same although Beijing has changed so rapidly over the last 10 years. The number of subway lines has tripled, newly erected shopping malls are everywhere and there's so much going on inside the National Center for the Performing Arts (world-class performances of classical music as well as traditional Chinese music) and National Museum of China (top-notch new exhibitions) and so many other places that the editors don't even know about _ Beijing is crowded with locals and people from other places who don't even know how to cross the streets, and the pollution is terrible, but the cultural life here is definitely world-class.
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Alex
My list:
1- Food with questionable meat ingredients involved
2- Being potentially exposed to deadly diseases
3- People looking at you funny for being a foreigner
4- Feeling sorry for all the cats and dogs and the wildlife
5- Smelling the lingering presence of the political repression in the air, mixed in with the suffocating smog
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My list:
1- Food with questionable meat ingredients involved
2- Being potentially exposed to deadly diseases
3- People looking at you funny for being a foreigner
4- Feeling sorry for all the cats and dogs and the wildlife
5- Smelling the lingering presence of the political repression in the air, mixed in with the suffocating smog
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laurie
Went to Beijing in Oct about 5 years ago. great season to visit. Good air quality at that time. Everything Mark says is spot on. My son was living there and speaks Mandarin, so language no issue! Would go back in a heart beat. Want to go to Shanghai and then take a river boat tour.
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Went to Beijing in Oct about 5 years ago. great season to visit. Good air quality at that time. Everything Mark says is spot on. My son was living there and speaks Mandarin, so language no issue! Would go back in a heart beat. Want to go to Shanghai and then take a river boat tour.
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Annales
Wolters, your information about the taxi drivers is wrong. The official cab drivers need to have a Beijing hukou, proving to be a Beijing resident, and these hukous arent easy to obtain. Unregulated cab drivers are mostly from outside Beijing.
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Wolters, your information about the taxi drivers is wrong. The official cab drivers need to have a Beijing hukou, proving to be a Beijing resident, and these hukous arent easy to obtain. Unregulated cab drivers are mostly from outside Beijing.
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Hu
You know you are not supposed to like a city with population of 40 million+, and Beijing does not need you to like her either. The city is already crowded so what Beijing wants is to have less people as a matter of fact.
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You know you are not supposed to like a city with population of 40 million+, and Beijing does not need you to like her either. The city is already crowded so what Beijing wants is to have less people as a matter of fact.
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Mr
When I went to Beijing, the taxi knew where he was going-from the airport to the hotel and from the hotel to the airport-they were to different drivers. I think it is because they are from Beijing.
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When I went to Beijing, the taxi knew where he was going-from the airport to the hotel and from the hotel to the airport-they were to different drivers. I think it is because they are from Beijing.
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KEN
One cannot write in mandarin, because mandarin is a spoken language. One writes in chinese, because no matter what Chinese dialect one speaks, the written language is understandable to all Chinese
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One cannot write in mandarin, because mandarin is a spoken language. One writes in chinese, because no matter what Chinese dialect one speaks, the written language is understandable to all Chinese
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Urotsukidoji23
I visited Beijing one month ago and the people were mostly unfriendly and not really helpful, but as you mentioned, they hardly speak english, thats the problem
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I visited Beijing one month ago and the people were mostly unfriendly and not really helpful, but as you mentioned, they hardly speak english, thats the problem
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7MOTION98
Thank you for this video, can you rely on credit cards when your are traveling in China or has to be all cash? I meant for restaurants and attractions and taxis?
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Thank you for this video, can you rely on credit cards when your are traveling in China or has to be all cash? I meant for restaurants and attractions and taxis?
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