Fran Simó Maimó

In China there are many Chinese tourists and fog.  If you are thinking to travel I recommend you April or October. 

Deception was what we find the majority of the people of the group.  We find us a China with all the wrongs of the capitalism one, like the tourism of masses, and with the traces of the communism, for example not to know what is a client... at least a western client.  Nobody speaks English, neither in the hotels of 4 stars for tourists.  

We were surprised by the capacity of change, absorption and cultural self-destruction.  The generation that patrols the 50 the Cultural Revolution lived of Mao, they destroyed as much as they found.  Their children copy everything that of West... but seems that it evil enters first.  The ethnic minorities seem to be very little important in number, and clearly differentiated by the dominant majority (Han).  

The Thousand-year-old Chinese package of Nobel Tours carried us to see the imperial capitals: Beijing, Luoyang, Xi'an and Nanjing they go, Nanjing.  There we saw many temples, palaces and gardens.  

On the road, especially in the neighborhood of Luoyang, were the better landscapes, that could not see for the fog.  A rural region where we could see the peasants selling fruit in the route.  Very pretty the subterranean houses of the old inhabitants.  

Shangai is usually called  “the capital of the shopping”, all the European marks can be found, at European prices, something that did neither interest us.  A Tokyo disorderly and dirty, full of luminous announcements seems and high buildings.  An architectural variety exists.  The walk in nocturnal ship left to see a skyline marvelous.  The museum: small, but pleasant; can be seen the entire without being burdened.  

Hangzhou and Suzhou are precious, especially Hangzhou.  Both they seem to carry living on the tourism a lot of time.  Along with Beijing they are the cleanest.  

Nanjing has no attraction.  

We had little to no contact with the people of the country.  The barrier of the language and the atareadísima agenda of the tour did not they leave us the opportunity.  

It expected to find me a China more mystical, less invaded by the multinationals, less estresada by having mobile of the latest generation.  

Of return I have seen some documentary on the mountainous provinces and seems that there still remains a little tradition.  

I make two selections: Images of China, more social, and Chinese Thousand-year-old, more "postcard like".