Ian and I decided to do a last minute trip to China in May. Luckily I had been researching it for ages (not surprise there) so we were able to put it together in a couple of days.
Ian was dispatched to the Chinese embassy in the Hague with our passports to organise the visas that we needed, luckily it's just around the corner from his work and we got them the same day. We book our trip with a tour company based in Beijing and they organised everything - hotels, guides, internal flights. All we had to do was to get ourselves to Beijing airport.
On the whole I enjoyed the trip but there were certain things that I didn't like - people staring at us all of the time for one. Not even subtle staring, they come right up to you and stand staring. Apparently it's not rude, maybe not but it's flipping annoying!
I also didn't like the way the we went every where via a 'museum' which turned out to be a tacky souvenir shop where you had to haggle over the price of everything. Luckily as Ian and I were with our own private tour guides we told them to stop taking us to the 'museums'. Some places even had separate entrances for overseas visitors and domestic visitors - guess which ones didn't go through the shop, sorry, the 'museum'?
Over all it was a good trip but at a frantic pace but I found it hard not to compare it to Japan and it didn't come out the winner....
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