>>2625819
Set to pick up visa tomorrow, flying Friday. First trip in two years. Lets go baby

Is macau officially part of China, or can I just show up with money and gamble?

>>2625905
Macau is officially part of China and you can show up with money and gamble. I don't understand your question. You don't need a visa to visit Hong Kong or Macau from most countries if that's what you're asking.

>>2625819
I'll be flying to Hainan cause it's visa free. Apperently I'm suppose to register at a travel agency or something? Anyone done this? Does it cost money?

>>2625897
have fun anon! what's your itinerary?

>>2625973
No plan yet, gonna be there for a few months, setting up base in Shanghai then will do small trips here and there. Likely visit Nanjing and work my way in North-East direction generally Qingdao/Dalian/Changchun.

>>2625905
macau is a special region you wont need a china visa. check their visa req should be on arrival if you dont live in a shit country.

>>2626084
cool, are you working/studying there or is it pure tourism? I imagine you'll have a lot of time to see the surrounding cities and provinces

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>>2625819
heading to Hong Kong in a few weeks to apply for an L visa. Then will enter the mainland and hang out near Shanghai for a bit. After that, will fly to Taiwan to start a bullshit teaching job, just so I don't have to live in pozzed USA anymore. Wish me luck bros. Pic related. Me in Taiwan.

>>2626557
Tourism technically I guess, have studied and worked there in the past though so like to take extended trips with no real purpose

>>2626214
powerful

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I'd like to visit the great wall, but I'm terrified of having my organs harvested in china. any tips?

I met a nice woman from china who told me I can get on busess without having to work out Ali pay and just use Cash, which I was told is impossible. Why do you guys talk so much shit?

>>2626858
No one said cash is impossible. It's just very inconvenient being cash only. Some places don't accept cash but it's not a lot.

>>2626858
Cash isn't unusable but it'd be like trying to pay using only quarters in the US. Or only 100 dollar bills. People will moan and groan, rarely have change, and some places won't take it at all.

Also with you being the clueless foreigner and everyone else using mobile payment, shops will definitely try to give you their counterfeit bills as change

>>2626899
Alright then I'll see how it goes

>>2626858
mainland buses have a little box you drop 1 or 2 yuan into for your journey. you just need 1 yuan coins. you should take nothing here as gospel

>>2626858
99% of stuff that is written about China online comes from people who have never even been to China.

>>2626925
Just set up Alipay. It works fine with a foreign credit card 90% of the time. Can't be used for personal accounts like street vendors or hole in the wall restaurants usually use but you won"t be spending much at those.

I'd love to visit China and check out the obvious tourist stuff (Great wall, forbidden palace, beijing/shanghai in general) as well as their fine art museums. Only problem is I'm a military vet and I'm unironically worried about getting taken in for interrogation. Any former glowies been to China and have advice?

Also is visiting Taiwan before visiting China a bad idea? Kinda worried they'll see the record of me visiting Taiwan and bar entry.

>>2627583
Lots of people have visited Taiwan and then visited China. Like me for example. So that, by itself, won't cause them to bar entry.

>>2627611
Awesome, thanks for the reply. I'm hoping I can hear from a vet at some point but I might just ask on a military forum or even /k/ if nobody answers in the next few days.

>>2626899
>shops will definitely try to give you their counterfeit bills as change
I'm going to guess you never lived there cause I've lived in China for almost 8 years and counterfeit change is practically unheard of.

>>2627583
One of the two Canadians who got taken away turned out to be a spy. If you're a vet they won't care. I knew a former Viet vet who was living there. To be fair he was anti-america as fuck. Can't say I blame him considering the shīthøle war his country conscripted him to fight for.

>>2627397
I'll give it a try at setting it up from now. Well if small businesses don't accept Ali pay even better, I've been told many times that it's all they accept.

I was looking to move to Zhengzhou, travel there first to see how it is, anyone have experience there?
Also I was looking to get a job there that's not an English teaching job, if I worked at a train station or hotel would that be alright to afford a basic lifestyle?
I'm learning Mandarin so I can speak the language and read it, and after reading and researching a lot the only thing that looks hard is getting a decent job that isn't teaching.

>>2627583
If you're just a normal vet then probably nothing to worry about. If you handled sensitive intelligence then maybe get a bit more worried.

Friend of mine has TS clearance and does cybersecurity, mentioned he basically can never visit China because of the risk he just get grabbed off the street by the CCP.

>>2628239
You can't work at a train station. You could work at a major international hotel chain in a middle-upper management position.

>>2627583
>Kinda worried they'll see the record of me visiting Taiwan and bar entry.
>kinda worried they'll see the record of me visiting china and bar entry to china

???

>>2627583
i knew some ex-military who had residence permits in china and were working there for several years.
they also don't care if you visited taiwan. there is active plans in place to get more taiwanese to go and study at mainland universities and china encourages tourism between both places. i have went from taiwan to mainland china several times.
if you are asking on 4chan then you are not someone they care about.

Is getting rather good quality yet cheap tailor-made suits still a thing? I'm in Bejing for 4 days and wondering if I should get one and if anyone has recommendations.

https://youtu.be/zR82qpP-QWM?si=kiQXMznTJNFGRBrb

>>2625819
China is a piece of trash country, only a retard would go there

China

>>2628439
How much did the CCP pay you for this post?

>>2625819
Is Yunnan overhyped (by the locals), or actually worth it?

>>2629837
definitely worth it - Dali alone is highly comfy, then the mountains are just full of amazing beauty

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>>2629825
+100 social credit points

>>2628569
shalom

>>2630094
I've not been but my friend who has told me that Lijiang was much better than Dali, and much less tourist-infested (local tourists, but you can tell, they are the ones speaking with 儿化 walking with their hands around behind their backs and probably spitting everywhere)

>>2630297
Hahaha why do they walk likes that?

Is Chongqing a tourist hell hole now or is it ok? Any recs to check out, going tomorrow.

>>2630297
your friend is wrong, i've been to both and dali is way more fun - it's full of chengdu hipsters on holiday and they've mad it really nice

>>2626858
Theoretically, everywhere needs to accept cash as payment. It's not totally unheard of to use cash, either. It's still around. Buses accept it as well.
I'd recommend using Alipay's tourism card. But always carry some cash of various denominations, for emergency. You may come across situations you can't use Alipay, because maybe a street vendor is only equipped for WeChat pay (probably impossible as a tourist to use). Frankly, it's a pain in the ass. Most places don't take card, either.

>>2627583
In my experience, Chinese bureaucracy doesn't bust your balls like their American equivalents. I literally forgot critical documents when I went, and they worked with me to get the right info after some brief questions. And, at least for me, they were friendly.
Also, the likelihood of being arrested as an American in China is less than being arrested in the US. For any cause. I did the math. And it's one of those things where you're such an obvious stick-out, they're not exactly worried about you being a glownigger, because you wouldn't even try if you were.
Kinda opens your eyes to the real reason the US is so ball-busting: because they're shit at border security.

>>2628239
Getting a non-teaching job is difficult. The majority of all work visas are teaching related. The other jobs exist, but they're not as common. And if you want to get in, teaching is the most reliable method.
On the other hand, teaching can be lucrative in the mainland. Good chance you can make more money teaching than doing other things, even those which need expertise. I made more money doing ESL than a lot of business professionals.
It's much better than in say, Japan or Taiwan. And it's only getting better, due to the shortages, the purge of shady training centers, etc. A college educated Anglo is like a golden ticket, since more and more Jamaicans and Africans are taking their place (and yeah, the locals learn who they prefer by experience).

>>2630432
>is Chongqing a tourist hell hole now?
When was it ever? It's full of Chinese tourists. Very few western tourists but that's actually going to be a bad thing for you because there are practically no english speaking services there.
Hope you speak Chinese!

>>2630528

Yep! Any recommendations there?

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>flighting out of busan
>go to book china eastern
>business class is only about $70USD more than econony was at $224usd
>go to book it, seats are avaliable
>fill out all my details
>all seats sold out
>refresh
>suddenly $490 USD for business
>economy up to $274 usd
Yeah not using a chinese airline fuck this. Pic is two different days but showing how much it changed in cost out of nowhere

>>2630587
Sorry meant $446 usd for the 'updated' price.
Never seen this happen before in my life. Absolutely unreal. Guess I'll be forced to take the earlier korean air flight which while the economy class is way cheaper, I didn't wanna wake up that early and have to tell 20 times that I can visit china without a visa

>>2630587
prices go up as desirability increases
regional flights between checkout and check-in times are the most desirable

If I have a single entry chineese visa can I enter Hong kong / Macau and come back to China?

>>2630666
No. It's a hard border and counts as exiting the country

>>2630642
No what I am saying is the price when I started to book it was fine and then I get to thre purchase area and it kicks me out, tells me it’s sold out and then dramatically increases the price

>>2630496
Ok thank you for the informative response. Yeah I had a friend live there and say teaching is the best option.
I just want to do something else as I'm not too keen on it. Do I need a college degree? Or could I just teach without a degree? I was really hoping to get just about anything else I could talk my way into and make decent money so I could live just on the average income, I'm by myself and low maintenance. Also I would learn to speak Chinese.

Question about Alipay: Do I need to use the balance function or is linking my card enough?

>boss wants to send me to China for a month to work alongside their engineers
I've never left the country. What am I in for? The infrastructure issues are just a meme, right?

>>2631548
It's 100 times nicer in cities like Shanghai than anything the USA has to offer.

>>2631519
Just link your card thats enough.

>>2631548
What infratructure issues specifically? I think the biggest issues for average Americans randomly being sent to China are: 1) they get scared and get into defense mode when they see Chinese signs, 2) rice, not a lot of bread or pizza or taco, 3) traffic is Eurasian style for the most part

Regarding 1 just keep reminding yourself that you are in a different country. Besides there will be a lot of bilingual signs. Besides you have a plethora of translator apps to choose from, all of them pretty decent. Map applications, etc.
#2 Just pack bread or something. (Then again, your hotel breakfast buffet will 100% have some toast bread at least, and if it's a half-decent hotel you can get some semi-American style foods at least for breakfast. Baozi have been approved to be good survival food by my bread-addict friends. Worst case they just go to McDonald's. (Some basic American chains exist there.)
3) You will be carried everywhere by a driver if it's your company sending you anyway. If not, the local rideshare apps are pretty good. Just enjoy being driven everywhere. (Public transport is heavenly, but I doubt you will have much chance to experience that in a work setting. Maybe on a weekend you will have a chance to cry at how comprehensive the public transport is?)

Your real problem is probably gonna be the work culture, not the infrastructure. Just remind yourself to make friends there at the office. Eat with them, try everything you are comfortable trying. Make up nice ways to say no. Bring drinks or cigarettes as gifts or something.

>>2631548
>infrastructure issues
I don't think anyone going to China for a short time really needs to be any more concerned about this than they are about the plane crashing on the way over

if you were buying an apartment or something I would be more concerned

>>2631548
you'll be taken for lots of dinners and have alcohol forced on you. you're likely being sent a decent sized city which you fly to and then have a short drive and you'll be put up in a decent hotel. you will have no experience of anything bad because your local office will take care of everything.
your biggest stress will be going out at the weekend and maybe being brave enough to fend for yourself and then have to eat at a shopping mall where you order by pointing at the menu if the local office even let you do that.

>>2631281
>Or could I just teach without a degree?
as the rules are written you would not get a Z visa then Residence Permit in order to teach unless you have a Bachelor's Degree or higher. in reality you can get the visa and permit and can teach but it comes down to who is employing you, their connections and their location. such things you cannot know without contacting someone and asking about it. if they are in a small city or a poorer, out of the way province and need teachers, if they are desperate for teachers and the local government is on their side then the laws can be relaxed and things can be ignored (or invented) and your paperwork can be processed.
but if you are trying to get a job in for example Shanghai at a good school, a top brand school or a expensive tuition school, then they are not going to entertain applicants without the paperwork and the government are not going to turn a blind eye to the regulations.
so it depends. you can go to Inner Mongolia but you can't go to Beijing in all probability. things have gotten much stricter, as they always do.

e-wallet for tourist may have gotten easier:
>China's central bank issued an e-CNY (digital yuan) user guide on Monday, the latest move aimed at facilitating mobile payment for foreigners.
>Mobile phone users can search for "e-CNY" in the App Store or Google Play to download and install the digital yuan app, and tap the "Sign up" option to register an account, according to a bilingual statement from the People's Bank of China.
>The e-CNY wallet can be registered using mobile phone numbers from over 210 countries and regions, according to the central bank statement.
>Alipay and WeChat Pay, China's two major payment apps, announced earlier this month that foreign users can now link their international credit cards, including Visa and Mastercard, to these platforms.
https://english.news.cn/20240318/ccc361c6a4b2449092716aa61932edc3/c.html
i have never used digital yuan so don't know where or how it is accepted

>>2632035
Ok gotcha, thank you for all the information.
I don't think I can go down the teaching route so I would look at other jobs to get that would allow me.

>>2628439
keked

>>2627796
>One of the two Canadians who got taken away turned out to be a spy.
prove it

>>2630642
t. chinese business man

>>2632145
in general, a degree is needed for the working visa regardless of your job. that is the requirement stated on the government visa sites.

bump for guizhou

>>2632037
based

will visiting China put me on a watchlist
serious question, a buddy of mine visited Iran and when he interviewed for his job he got asked about it by homeland security, pulled up pictures of him at the airport in Tehran
creepy shit

>>2625963
I went to Hainan, through a travel agency yeah. Hardly cost anything. He took my passport for a couple days, then met me at the airport, returned my passport and I hopped on the flight there. Wasn't really worth it, pretty bland. A lot of construction going on at the time, no local charm, below average beach and nature quality. I wish I did island hopping around Hong Kong instead.

>>2626899
Guarantee you cash is still the preferred method of payment for all street vendors and family run businesses. They don't want their true earnings taxed.

>>2628239
Even if you're one of the top engineers in the world no one in China will hire you for anything other than English teacher or greeter. You have to start your own business. If you aren't entrepreneurial and you don't want to be around kids, look for a greeter job. As a greeter, you work for some company that has a lot of foreign clients. You meet with the clients when they arrive in China and escort them around to make them feel more comfortable seeing another white face. Being fluent in Mandarin will make it a lot easier to get these jobs, since you can then do double duty as a translator and tourism facilitator/guide.

>>2628501
I got one made in Guangdong for $500 USD 15 years ago. It's good quality yeah, it's still the suit I use for weddings and funerals. I say go with the classic looking 3 button option when given the choice, and if they offer to leave a little extra fabric folded in the seams, I say accept so if you ever gain weight you can get the suit adjusted and still wear it.

As far as picking a tailor, ask a couple middle or upper class looking old guys if they can recommend one. I asked a guy in his 60's if he could recommend a place and he walked me all the way over to it.

>>2629837
I thought it was nice, felt like Colorado. The towns were a bit overdeveloped and touristee, but great nature and weather. I read very old warnings about hikers being abducted and taken to North Korea, but I never felt any vibes like that at all even in the middle of nowhere, always felt safe.

>>2636673
Ok but where in Hainan were you? Im going there primarily for shopping. Everything in China is cheaper. Going to buy a phone, a luggage and some other stuff.
Which travel agency did you use? How did you find them? How much did it cost?

>>2636602
What job was it? I would guess only people in the military would have this problem. Fortunately I wasn't stupid enough to join the military

Is this shithole hostile right now? It looks like the CCP is really afraid of their slave people being influenced by foreigners right now. I just wanna go for the obvious reasons in tier 1 cities.

>>2636810
Went to Sanya. I can't remember the name of the travel agency, the clerks at my hotel in Chengdu put me in touch with him, some guy in a Hawaiian shirt with a ponytail. I think the cost was $90, was 15 years ago though so a lot more expensive now I'm sure. The clerks and the travel agent all spoke some English.

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Guys remember china is going to collapse any second now.

>>2636818
He applied for a software position weirdly enough

>>2626785
Hi CIA glowie

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Anyone know if you can take your bicycle on trains in China? Without putting it in a box.
I've been there multiple times. done 20 hour sleeper trains, once 50 hour to Tibet. But never really thought about the bicycle.
Was thinking next year cycling through China, but the 30 day visa is a bit problematic. Can't make it to Tianjin/Qingdao from the other side of the country in 30 days. I would take a ferry to Korea.

>>2626870
>It's just very inconvenient being cash only
cringe
why are you zoomers so fucking braindead? Getting money out and spending it isn't hard

What are the odds I find love in china
Had a buddy that had sex for the first time in Colombia and then married the girls and she took $50k from him then got pregnant from another guy
Really don't want that to be me

>>2637655
your buddy was a typical LBH faggot. he deserved to get scammed.

>>2637656
But so am I and I'll be there for a month on business

>>2637664
you can find a chinese girl to use you for cash or a visa

>>2637666
>use you for your visa
It's not the 1980s anymore anon

>>2637816
>implying there aren't half a billion changs living in poverty that would sell a kidney for a Canadian passport
lol
lmao even

>>2637823
>Canada
>The best the west has to offer
Lol, lmao even. Also all the Chinese are going home

CCP janny nuked the Taiwan thread because
>hurr durr there is only one china
TW is cool. People are awkward AF around me tho

>>2637907
>the jeetjanny actually did something based for once
Wtf? I love India!

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Go to Nanjing Road in Shanghai for some peace and quiet.

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>>2625819
Remember that time Serpentza ordered a 12 inch hot dog when he was dining with Beer Girl 13 years ago? That was crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I5d-4qqoys

>>2638178
I would love to say this is during some holiday? I've been there multiple times as a tourist, never looked like that.
First time I was there as a teenager, with my family. Cyclone hit Shanghai, everything flooded. Water up to our knees.

>>2637823
>>2637831
Canadian here, have been studying/working/hanging out with Chinese international students for the past few years.

The only Chinese ppl I’ve met who want to stay in Canada are the women who dislike Chinese government and the “you have to fit in” culture. They feel like they can be more individualistic while being left alone / judged less by most Western folk. Doesn’t seem to be about economic prospects at all.

I feel like most educated men don’t care much about “fitting in” or what society thinks of them. They’re more focused on how the country operates and if the infrastructure supports their ability to reward efforts of going to work.

>>2626870
>It's just very inconvenient being cash only
I hate zoomers so much bros
This is easy as fuck compared to waving your phone around in the air

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>>2637831
>he thinks they're going back
God I wish you were right
Unfortunately, even with a skyrocketing cost of living and progressive politics, Canada is still infinitely better than the polluted shithole that is China

>>2638718
>Canada is the metric of a good country
Absolute STATE of shills

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>>2638718
>>2637823
I'm going to guess you're not Canadian because they really do seem to be leaving. Honestly, after dealing with jeets I 100% prefer changs but I plan to leave this shithole anyways so what happens here doesn't matter to me. I hope it all burns to the ground.

One day I'd like to open up a china travel video and not have the comments be flooded with "THE WEST IS LYING TO YOU CHINA IS AMAZING" propaganda

>>2638821
>China is a terrible place
>I got to think about China 24/7
>I have to convince everyone that China is LE BAD!!!! because China scares me :(
You copium retards should just fuck off. No one cares.

>>2638821
I mean when Jew media is shilling "china le bad" 24/7 you shouldn't be surprised when people watch China videos are doing the opposite

Going to Shanghai in less than a week, anyone got any non-obvious attractions I could check out?

>>2637553
a quick search implies that it heavily depends on the station and train you get on, with some allowing it and some needing you to dismantle it and make it small etc
I think in holiday season it would definitely be a no unless you fold it up

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did nobody read the OP?

I'm probably going to start my next trip by visiting some friends in Hangzhou. I have 3 weeks, is there enough to do and see in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the entire trip? Excluding Shanghai, I've been there many times. Otherwise I'd just hop on a plane after a few days, maybe to Yunnan or Sichuan.

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>>2638910
Does seem a bit of a hassle for sure. I've had problems getting train tickets there before, because no common language. This was before smartphones with translation services though. Imagining try to find info if I can take it on a train, or try to explain staff what I want to do, does seem a proper chore.
Would like to Sichuan, go around the mountains. Or maybe fly to Mongolia, then cycle from there. Don't know how they like going overland though.

>>2638924
Suzhou is nice, near Shanghai & Hangzhou. Good for a day trip. Takes like an hour with a train from both cities. Has canals, which are cool. Nanjing also great.

Yunnan and Sichuan are both great. You could hit Guilin though, visit the caves, take a river cruise to Yangshou. Pretty popular tourist spots, so maybe not during the holidays. Jiuzhaigou is beatiful in Sichuan, or go Zhangjiajie.

>>2638912
The Powers To Be encourage China hate.
Anything negative about say India gets removed immediately, reddit-tier memes and troll posts targeting China stay up until bump limit.
This is in addition to slow moderation in general, lots of shit stays up for days here.

>>2638859
I'm going in December but apparently there is a propaganda poster museum, they even sell some originals so if you're into that stuff its there

>>2638988
India posts are just straight up shitposting. They should be removed. Its worn out and boring. A lot of good threads die because some idiot from Bumfuck, USA thought it would be cool to post the same post again.

>look up japan stuff
>250 videos on the same topic/attraction
>look up china stuff
>maybe 1-2, not counting the great wall and the bund
Excited to visit a place not knowing too much, only going to Shanghai as part of a longer trip (148 hour visa free stuff so just a transit). Like there is barely anything on google maps and even then it seems to show not as accurate locations. Seems like the older times of travelling without mobile internet, just having to discover on the go.

>>2639004
You need to look up things on Baidu and Youku/Bilibili, obviously some Chinese keywords are needed for that.
>>2639001
Please do the needful and return to backseat janitoring in India threads saar.

For those who have visited both, if you had to pick between Chengdu or Chongqing, where would you visit? I only have enough time in my itinerary to properly visit one. I'm leaning towards Chongqing because of its proximity to Fengdu Ghost City. Is this a bad idea?

>>2639018
Have you been to other Chinese cities?
If yes then Chongqing would be my pick for you.
Chengdu is interesting if you're into pandas or Tibet, Chongqing is a fairly unique city on its own.

>>2639018
Its been years since I've been to both, Chongqing especially has grown a lot.
I would choose Chengdu, it has the Panda Sanctuary. You can see their kids if you go at the right time. I mean like few weeks old Pandas, in incubation chambers. It's not a zoo in the traditional sense, but a place where they conserve them and try to get them to breed. They have red pandas also.
But depends what you like. Chongqing is massive, 35+ million people or something like that.

>>2639018
Chengdu. I lived in Chongqing and loved it but as a tourist Chengdu just has more things to do and food options in Chongqing are surprisingly limited as Chongqing people won't eat food that isn't hot pot. The two cities are part of the same cultural sphere of China. People talk a similar language, eat similar food and think of each other as brothers but for some reason every Chengdu version of Chongqing food just blows it out of the water.

Hope you speak Chinese as both cities aren't international tourist friendly and many hotels will reject you

>>2632037
Thank you.

>>2639004
if you want lots of info you should use Chinese services, xiaohongshu has a lot of travel stuff on it like itineraries and restaurant recs etc, for most of the world (but it's 99% made by women)

>>2638988
people should stop replying to it, at the very least

I live in Japan, I'm planning a trip to Hong Kong for Golden Week. I'm going to be staying for 7 days. Some questions:

As of now I'm not planning to go into the mainland, so will an Octopus card + cash be enough for everything, or should I look into a payment app? I also have a VISA card for emergencies.
I'll be exchanging Yen to HKD in Japan before my trip, I'm thinking maybe 100,000 yen (~5100 HKD) will be sufficient but I don't really know, I don't have a reference for the price of things in HK. Any thoughts?
I would like to go to Macau and do some gambling and sightseeing, I just want to confirm if I can use HKD in Macau or if I'd have to convert currency once again.
I've heard it's better to get a SIM card from 7/11 rather than at the airport, is this true?

Thank you.

>>2639341
>As of now I'm not planning to go into the mainland, so will an Octopus card + cash be enough for everything
yes

>I'll be exchanging Yen to HKD in Japan before my trip, I'm thinking maybe 100,000 yen (~5100 HKD) will be sufficient but I don't really know, I don't have a reference for the price of things in HK. Any thoughts?
depends if you want to do high class luxury shit or slumming it, yes it's enough for the latter, no to the former, housing is going to be your main expenditure so book ahead and see how much damage it's going to be
food prices are going to be similar to tokyo

>I would like to go to Macau and do some gambling and sightseeing, I just want to confirm if I can use HKD in Macau or if I'd have to convert currency once again.
you'll be fine unless you venture way off the beaten path and even then they'd probably accept it

>I've heard it's better to get a SIM card from 7/11 rather than at the airport, is this true?
dunno, sorry

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>>2638278
a fellow serp-chad follower. based.

well, my plane ticket is booked lads. Hainan Airlines to Beijing in late August, and then I'll be an exchange student at PKU for a year

any advice? things to prepare for?

I speak near-fluent Chinese and will be going to perfect my language skills

>>2639001
>>2639008
>>2638988
i've been using trv a lot more these days than i used to, and it's p obvious that there's a mentally ill anon who makes the exact same india threads every day

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>>2640606
maybe if we could actually have an india thread and discuss the country, he wouldn't sperg out like that. weird that we can shit on literally every country except india. I'd post about my honest experience there, but I know the jannie would just ban me.

>>2638845
>Jew media is shilling "china le bad" 24/7
not in Italy, at least not anymore since the Chinese are gradually becoming our new Masters

>>2640627
>weird that we can shit on literally every country except india.
Not true. We also can't criticize Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Total coincidence I'm sure.

>>2640627
Remind me of that Webm where that Chinese guy is fucking with one of those small poisonous green snakes

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I am going to be in zhangjiajie for a week (familial commitments), other than the obvious what are some interesting spots there, and around hunan in driving distance?

Does anyone know how to solve the issue with 12306 reporting that the site is "busy" when uploading the verification pictures? I tried phone (english + chinese) and website (english + chinese) but can't get it to work

>>2643135
what browser are you using? lots of chinese sites don't like anything except Internet Explorer or whatever it is called now or Safari.
i can't do any online banking or utility in Chrome browser.
also when trying to do things outside of china on chinese sites i find things often don't work.

>>2643449
You should stop using chrome as it's google spyware and incredibly bloated.

What are some parts of China that can entertain my five year old niece? My brother is visiting with his wife. While she's really quiet, they want to know any areas of China that are fun for children.

>>2643456
What time of year?

>>2643449
Thanks but it still doesn't work. I read that you could normally book 4 trips before getting verified but I can't even do that.

>>2643465
They plan to visit around July-August.

>suddenly get informed I'm to go to Shanghai on a business trip in early June
Most of my days are booked and I won't have that much free time, so day trips to like Hangzhou or Ningbo are out of question, and I'm limited to Shanghai itself, but I still want to squeeze out as much as possible out of this opportunity. What am I in for and what are some places I should try to visit and things I should try to do? Cooming may or may not be included.

I'm in Chongqing right now, anyone know where to get a massage?

Also is there a Bus terminal I can go to to just get in any long distance bus to a nice out of town location, like in other countries?

>>2643807
>Bus terminal
China is not 3rd world, there are these things called trains there

>>2643809
I went to the train station earlier and it was an ordeal, not steroid food there again. It's not Monaco there has to be some busses that get out of the city, be a nice boy and tell me where to catch them.

>>2643811
Chongqing Long-Distance Bus Station (重庆长途汽车站, colloquially known as Caiyuanba Bus Station 菜园坝汽车站), 3 Caiyuan Road, Yuzhong District (渝中区菜袁路3号)
7 Chongqing North Railway Station South Plaza Bus Station (重庆北站南广场汽车站, previously known as Longtousi South Bus Station 龙头寺汽车南站), 46 Kunlun Avenue, Yubei District (渝北区中铁二院昆仑大道46号)
8 Chenjiaping Bus Station (陈家坪汽车站), 39 Shiyang Road, Jiulongpo District (九龙坡区石杨路39号)

>>2643814
Thanks! Hopefully I can find a bit of a different atmosphere for a little change.

>>2643814
By the way are you still here? What interesting things are you doing? I'm loving how few tourists there are here. Could've gives the three Gorges Museum a miss though

>>2643644
I don't have kids, so I'm not sure what's best for traveling with them but there's a Disneyland close to Shanghai that's supposed to be good. And you could do some research on local cultural festivals, there are a lot and most of them are child-friendly. I'd usually recommend the south (Yunnan/Sichuan/Guangxi) since it's not so crowded and they are great day-trip opportunities all around but it's rain season during that time of year.

Also, I don't know if you've been to Taiwan before but that's basically "China light" and might be more suited for traveling with kids. It's way more easy to get around and acclimate.