China - Overview

Every other day I change my mind about what will be my next destination, at this point in time China is my new obsession (I can never explain why).

When it comes to China, after studding the subject, you’ll realize that it’s more of a continent than a country, so you need to treat it as such.

You really need to focus your attention on a region or a specific place you’d wanna start from.

Some people wanna just do the basics, hop to Beijing then to Hong Kong and then decide what fancy them more in the region and go from there. Of course it all depends on your budget, your interests and the time you have at your disposal.

I like to look at a map before I go anywhere, and check what would be the best way to… well… “attack” a destination.

Here’s a map of China:



Here’s the thing, Beijing and Hong Kong are very far apart, I rarely like to spread around too much, I like to concentrate on one region at a time.

From looking at a map of China ,there’s no way (unless you have like a few months at your disposal) to see everything.

I rather take it apart, and try to squeeze in as much as I can, one region at a time.

I’m gonna start with Beijing and the following regions: Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shandong & Henan.


As you can see from the map, these are the regions surrounding Beijing and they’ll be the easiest and the fastest to visit on a trip starting in Beijing.

My plan is to fly internationally, in and out of Beijing. So my trip will start and end in the same place.

So let's start the day planning :)

Introduction

For years now I've been obsessed with travel, I've loved everything about it (maybe that's the Sagittarius in me, who knows...).

I was always a great navigator even though I'm a girl and could find any place anywhere in the world by just using a map (I'm meen without GPS). So maps became my friends, and used to have quite a lot of them in my car.

I hated asking for directions to a new location "just give me the address" became my motto and that was followed by "...you'll see, I'll get there, don't worry". I used to love seeing people's faces when I got there in a flash.

My love for navigating only increased when I discovered my obsession with travel.

My parents are to blame for this when they decided to take me with them for my 12th birthday on my first trip abroad. They were using a different kind of map, "travel guides".

Guess what... I was in love!

How can you explain an obsession, well mine is only by seeing my library of travel books, mostly of places I haven't been to yet and still dying to go to.

Through the years I joined my parents every year on their annual trip till I was 18, that's when I first experienced this on my own, when me and a friend from high school planed our first trip to after high school.

Planning vacations by locations and maps became my thing and now I'm the one planning my parents’ trips.

The reason I'm starting a blog now is mainly selfish, I need a paperless forum to plan trips and keep feeding my obsession, and secondly people always ask for my help in this matter so I figured why not kill two birds with one stone :)

I hope I'll be able to do this, we'll see how it goes, basically what I'm gonna do is try to show different travel locations in the world and how I "attack" them, this is the time to say that I take no responsibility for any place I mention and any root or decision. 

This is how I'd plan a trip before I've been there, using maps and travel books. So take that in mind. Also I have no idea if anyone else is doing something similar on the web but it's worth a try... :)