Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.

The jade sculptures and paintings are just fantastic.

Being a foreigner, did you find any kind of hostility or get endlessly bothered by people trying to sell you something?

China is so fucking interesting country

I'd love to go there. Hopefully I will someday... :)

Actually its a communist country, Sweden is a socialist country.

Being 6'3" I got a lot of attention. People wanted to take there picture with me. It was funny. When you went past the many little market stands, some of the vendors got aggressive. My girl told one woman she was going to smack her if she didn't back the fuck off, her words. She learned how to say it in Chinese. I told one guy NO loudly and that worked. When they got that aggressive , we didn't even look at what they had to sell.

At a park we went to, we were treated like guests. They did a community kind of work out and we participated. Lots of different things going on, I danced with the locals and they loved it, mainly because of my size I guess. Then I some people spinning these huge tops with a whip, I bought one and joined in. Still have it. That was the best day for me, because of the people there, the culture we shared. Doing Tai Chi

I've been all over the world, I've been to the Orient before, but China has been the most interesting place I have ever been to. The old world feeling mixed in with them working so hard to become a modern country. It was amazing. , but right now, waiting to get back to a regular sleeping schedule.

Seriously? Who rocks GFY hoodie to China to meet other GFYers? Vendzilla that's who.


Great thread and info. Encouraging others to leave the house :)


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You are wrong,

Read this
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/gov...-Socialism.htm

The socialist market economy is the economic model employed by the People's Republic of China

What I saw there leads me to believe it's a one of a kind place and can't be compared to any other country in the world. We saw a very large chunk of the country, going from Shanghai to Beijing , even spent 425 miles on the River there, stopping every night to visit.

Yeah that's me, It's a good hoodie and it was funny when I ran across people that read English. I wore it for some selfie's with my Girl.

I remember when people told me to not look american when I went to Europe. I wore a t shirt with Lincoln playing the drums and the base drum was the American flag and Lincoln was wearing sunglasses. That's how I roll, larger than life!

I encourage everyone to have a vacation, get out of your comfort zone and see the world, if you have done half of what I have done in my life, then you have had a life!

welcome to China

Amazing pictures.... Amazing culture. Seems they have come a long way in the past twenty years and have blended the old culture with the new in an interesting way.

50 Hello Kitty's.

from your own link

Countries that implemented one or another version of communism in the 20th century include Russia (as the Soviet Union), China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, and North Korea. In every case, communist dictators rose to power in order to enforce the reordering of the political and economic structure. Today, Russia and Cambodia are no longer communist, China and Vietnam are politically communist but economically capitalist, and Cuba and North Korea continue to practice communism.

Countries with socialist policies, in combination with a capitalist economy and democratic political system, include Sweden, Norway, France, Canada, India and the United Kingdom. In each of these cases, socialism has achieved the moderation of capitalistic drives for profit at any human expense, without disincentivizing work or brutalizing the populace. Socialist policies provide for worker benefits such as vacation time, universal health care, subsidized child-care, etc. without demanding central control of industry.

Politically Communist, but they are a capitalist country. That's the difference. saying they are just communist is wrong. I think as a few people I talked to there that it is more socialist and communist control more than the government that's in place does.

Yeah, we went everywhere, different restaurants every night. Very few restrictions even if you could call them that.

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The amount of construction I saw was mind boggling. Traveling down the Yangtze River, I saw more bridges than I thought existed. But when you hear about cities that have over 30 million people in them, it's just a difference that's fun to experience. Best trip I have ever taken. Lots of walking, great food, everyone in the group worked well together, good guide that made sure everything was taken care of. All the way down to our boarding passes. She was there at the airport to say good bye!

Seriously. I've always admired things from that part of the world, but honestly never considered actually visiting. But seeing these photos has put a desire in me to look into it. I think it would be awesome to be surrounded by that culture for a few weeks and take in so many beautiful sights

how about people relation towards tourists? they were friendly/truly/false? any hostility or not?

nice pics dude!

I thought it was almost worldwide tradition, especially when couples get married they lock it on some bridge etc.

That made me laugh, who told you those tales? :1orglaugh
You are thinking of North Korea here.

Whats up with "hostility" comments in this thread? Are you living under the rock that you imagine somewhere people are hostile against tourists?
It is not some hardcore muslim country where SOME people might not like westerners etc.

STUNNING !!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

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When you are walking down the street, you get a lot of looks, but it was out of curiosity, they don't see too many foreigners. Just the tour groups mainly. But when we went thru a park on a Sunday, it was filled with people dancing and doing exercises. They invited into that as we walked thru which was a lot of fun, the more you got into it, the more fun they had and you had.

Just woke up, going to be a couple days till we are back to normal time I think

Nice pics and comments :thumbsup

Seems you had fun :drinkup

Thank You, I have a good woman in my life that likes to live life. So we get out a lot and enjoy everything. This is part of it. Her and I travel well together, on the motorcycle or on a plane. Next big trip will be for our honey moon. Next year, Sturgis 75th

Rad pics, thanks for sharing.

Did you eat anything crazy?
How was the peking duck?

GFY user Phoenix lives in asia, I gotta make my way over there.

I think these roasted ones are not chickens. Will not investigate what pets or reptiles is that.

Ate some jelly fish, some veggies I have never seen before, that was about it.

Peking duck was pretty good. Last dinner I had there was that and very generous. I drink a bunch of their fire water, really strong.............

Get on a plane mofo..ill be back in China in May

wow great post op i always wanted to visit China. Def motivates me. Im hitting Thailand after I wrap this Hawaii trip up

where was the jade factory located?

In a few years, I may go to Thailand, I've been close, went to Singapore years ago

Beijing is where it was located I believe, we went to so many places. Xi'an was my favorite city where I had the most fun.