God damn I fucking love China. It is so nice here. Little things, like sidewalks being wider, make such a huge difference. Tomorrow I’m going to the tomb of the second Khan of the Jing Dynasty and first emperor of the Qing dynasty. It’s literally just chilling in a public park, and you pay like ¥5 to go inside and check it out. So much history just bursting at the seams, and yet it still feels so much more modern than my home state in many ways.
Jealous, would love to go one day
It’s totally worth the effort. Hardest part was getting the visa, I don’t have a Chinese consulate in my state so I had to fly to the one assigned to my region. But you can get a 10 year visa so you only have to do it once.
The flight was expensive, but staying is cheap. For two weeks I’m spending less than $1000 in hotels, and I’m staying in really fancy hotels in multiple cities. I spent $2k for a week in a 200sqft hotel in California, so outside of the flight cost, this is probably going to be one of my cheapest vacations ever.
The hotels really are great aren’t they. 30 quid a night for a fucking enormous room, massive TV and a wet room