10 Travel Tips for China
Here are ten tips to make your next visit to China as awesome as possible. Most of the tips come from six years of living here, so you can bet I have a good idea of what I am talking about. 1. Phone is king When I first started traveling people would tell me that in some countries cash was king and in other card was king. While in China it's all about the phone now. Most Chinese will use Wechat Pay or Alibaba to pay for things. The problem this raises for most travelers is you need a Chinese bank account to use either. Apply pay works here as well as I think What's app but I don't have it so I don't really know, no one uses What's app in China. Trying either is a great idea though as I have had experiences were store clerks got very angry at me that I wanted to use money and not my phone. I have also had a few experiences where people had forgotten how to use money. Another to mention about money in China is the whole change thing is very weird f...