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Travel to China: Tips and Resources

May 20, 2013 by 2 Comments

Travel to China

This guide contains pretty much all the info that you’ll need to prepare your trip to China: VISA requirements, travel insurances, vaccinations, guidebooks, planes and trains, hotels, internet and phone cards.

Also, you’ll find tips on where to eat, what to bring to China, when to travel to China, how to avoid the most common scams and how to bargain.

p.s. At the bottom of this post you can download a Travel Phrase Book Chinese/English in PDF format. You’ll find the most common greetings, the most common food and drinks, numbers, how to ask for help or directions, as well as some useful sentences for taking a taxi and shopping. You can print the PDF e-book and use it during your trip to China ; )

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24 hours in Hong Kong

January 19, 2012 by

The morning after the wedding, Pierre sends to me a mysterious text message:

“Come to the dim sum. Second floor, noon.”

But what’s the dim sum, a post-wedding ceremony I was not aware of? Hmmm Confident that being in China we will get some food anyway, I arrive on time. And I discover with pleasure that the dim sum is a traditional meal composed by countless small dishes, especially shrimps and jiaozi.

dim sum guangzhouDim sum.

After a feast lunch, I decide to visit Hong Kong as it’s only one hour from here by train…
Feng is back to work, Michela is drinking her second Coca Cola and declares will not move before five and the others have other plans. So here I am, once more alone through Chinese streets.

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SF Express: How to send a document in China

December 19, 2011 by 1 Comment

This story tells about my first experience with SF Express (Shun Feng), which delivers documents and goods within one day everywhere in China and Hong Kong.

Before I used to go to a Chinese post office and utilize the EMS service, but with SF Express you only need to call the 4008 111 111 and tell them where to go in order to get your documents and send them overnight. The operators speak English and the delivery boy will usually find you within one hour.

He will take your order and let you a receipt with a track number. For tracking your documents, just go to S.F. Express website and insert the track number. It is that simple!

OK, here my story.

Every time I change country, I crash against local bureaucracy. So far, the Chinese one is the most difficult I found. I guess my approximate knowledge of the language doesn’t help, but there are so may law that vary from a province to another and so many offices you have to pass through, that gets to a point where nobody knows what to do is quite common.

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