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Tips to go to China (Summer Holiday June 2019)


It's such a great learning experience for me and my family. China has been progressing and advancing in very fast pace beyond my expectations except people's attitude 😜😜
Most of the road are wide and have 4 lanes (3 lanes for cars and 1 lane for bikes and scooter) unfortunately the most dangerous ones are the bikes and scooter because they don't follow traffic rules especially in the junction and most of them seldom honking so we only can hear the tyre screeching few meters from us 🤦🏼‍♀️

When we think that Singapore has advanced, China has surpassed us. 
Tips for family with young children to go to China without joining tour
1. Rent portable wifi with VPN from Changi airport or if you prefer roaming on, make sure you have installed VPN before arriving in China


2. Install google translate before hand it will help us to communicate with the locals
3. Cash is still the king, 
Most of the shops are using alipay and WeChat payment but we need to have chinese local bank so it's kinda useless for foreigners to install those apps
4. Beware of the traffic 


5. Stay at the hotel or air bnb in the city area near the subway
The price may more expensive but it's worth it, you can walk around and mostly within 2 km walks if we don't want to take subway

6. Stroller is a must
Everywhere we are walking may be can walk 10km in total everyday and young children will get cranky 

7. Hold your breath when going toilet
Especially in Beijing, most of the toilets including big shopping mall except international chain hotel are squats toilet, so you can imagine how smelly it is.

8. Bargain until the seller give up
In China as a buyer we must be more fierce than the seller. Bargain as low as possible and to know that our price is too low or not, just walk away
9. Hire local guide especially in Beijing
Beijing has a lot of history and when we travel we just don't want to snap good picture but learn their culture and history so hiring local guide is always good ideas. You can cut queue as well especially in the crowded tourist places

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