Because it is BIG, it is BUSY. traffic is horrible and waiting in line or pushing in line is normal. The cities we visited, Shanghai, Guangzhou , Nanjing and Wuxi...Wuxi being the smallest are bigger than Seattle or Vancouver. All the sites you want to see, everyone else wants to see them as well. It is busy.
You don't see a lot of other westerners... and being a westerner is no big deal. I love not standing out even though you know you look like no one else there.
People/women dress really well, I mean really well. Walking in these huge cities it often looked like everyone was either coming or going to a formal gathering rather then just walking around like we were.
When you go shopping, there will be a lot of noise. It isn't enough that they have window displays...imagine walking in our malls and have the store employees standing right outside the front entrance with a mic, loud music blaring and yelling their wares while the store next door is most likely doing the same.
IT is all about the food. I will spend one whole post talking about this...but it is really about the food.
The Chinese love their country, their 5000 year history, the connections everything has to everything else They are proud of their enterprising nature and love showing it off to you. This is an impressive, HUGE, busy country. What you think about China isn't what is China. Our 10 day visit was like the view of Shanghai or Guangzhou from their famous towers. You can see a lot, but you really have no idea how it all fits together.
It was a brief taste, but it gave me an idea of where our Chinese international students come from. I loved following them around on their turf...what a turf !
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