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For old history stuff i would really go to Shanxi, especially places like Pingyao

I've always wanted to go

Yanjin looks so neat though for real, there's an entire large city with tower blocks cozily tucked away in a lush mountain valley

Gotta represent my home province and say 张家界 tho idk what the weather is like this time of year

I think there are more exciting red tourism activities being produced. Like I went to this live production portraying the railway guerrillas at the railway guerrilla museum/park in Zaozhuang. It was total action slop with pyrotechnics and stunts and stuff, but it was awesome lol

Go to Dandong or Changbai County and put your toes across the border to North Korea.

Taking the shangri-la high-speed rail to anywhere in Yunnan seems like it would be cool.

according to a rednote post i liked from "great china travel," in january you should go to the Harbin ice festival, Mohe to experience a polar environment, Shenyang for the imperial palace, Changchun for skiing & history.

in february, they say sanya (which you already mentioned), haikou for a city on the sea, guangzhou flower markets, macau for casinos & portuguese flair, and zhuhai for romantic islands.

if it were me, i'd probably be drawn to ~~beijing~~ edit meant to say Shanghai to see the cosmopolitan mashup (most western-accommodating area) and that seems to be where the main punk scene in china is. or i'd try to learn some gardening techniques.

have fun

I would be doing so much food tourism.

Maybe to you this is still Great Wall territory, but whenever I am in a country with a history of Buddhist practice, I like to go visit temples. I went to the Famen Temple near Xi'an which is supposed to be more touristy but I didn't recognize a single other foreign tourist the whole time and everyone was staring at me. It was very cool. There's a room with hundreds of golden plaques of the Buddha covering the ceiling.

You've gotta have dozens of temples that are way outside the cities and in the mountains and stuff that probably have cool architecture, cool history, and maybe even cool monks you can talk to and stay with for a day or two if it's not super super busy. They definitely aren't on vacation.

I get it if you don't really care for that kind of thing though.

where they have digged up this "ancient alien civilisation" thats waiting to be discovered by the chud archeology.. "sanxingdui- culture"

or these cliche chinese mountains you think only exist in paintings but actually exist for real.

Edit: Tsingtao Brewery

I hear Yunnan or Lhasa are nice places to visit.

Tea tourism in Yunnan province. Menghai（勐海）and Yiwu（易武）have phenomenal teas in particular. Although it's a bit early for the spring harvest, but you should see some tea leaves on branches and stuff and be able to drink so great stuff.

Yunnan is amazing, Kunming is a great city but Dali is really beautiful if you want a smaller town

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