CHINA
Country Overview:
“Love the food, hate the government”
I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Stayed the night in Erlian and quickly remembered why I vowed to never return
I shouldn’t hate on this place too much though, what can you expect from any sort of border town really?
So what does one do in Erlian? Played 3 games of pool by myself, all of which I won. Ate some sort of street meat with warm beer, tried to find souvenirs but was only shown sex toys (maybe my pronunciation was off..) and watched movies in my hotel room while listening to a Mongolian couple argue. All in all, it still beats taking the sleeper bus.
Erlian is known to have discovered lots of dinosaurs so of course they put giant dinosaur sculptures everywhere
Both are terrible pictures but to my defense, I was flying by at 80 Km/H.
