To travel to China: a brief guide with the basic information

The trip to China: the only experience

China is a country that seems destined to exercise a deep fascination for the western ones. A fascination that reflects not only his peculiarities, but our own wishes and hopes. In spite of the spectacular increase of the communications, of the multiplication of the artistic and cultural exchanges, and of the relations between the nations who are turning our planet in a real "global village", the name of China seems to remain associated still today with epithets as "wonderful", "mysterious", "deep". Adjectives all who reflect the deep incomprehension that keeps on separating countries and continents.

Our image of China dances between the fragments of a culture called millennial which grounds still reach us of multiple and varied forms: the Thai chi, the feng sui, the Taoism or the traditional medicine, and another image that there sells to us the press that turns this country into injustices sampler and lacking in freedoms.

And although each of these images seems to contribute his sand granite to the comprehension of the reality of this immense country, none is true completely. Only the personal experience of our trip will allow us to organize of suitable form the dispersed fragments of information that try to form this country. And the fact is that traveling is an experience that comprises multitude of situations, which composition answers in turn to a big number of factors related to the traveler and the place that is visited. An always different experience in this China of thousand faces that has turned this country at present.

China keeps on being a country in which any type of marvel seems possible, an always mysterious and unknown country. Beyond the stereotypes and the set phrases, the propaganda of some and the counterpropaganda of others, a country is, with the whole historical and human wealth that it is possible to wish.

In addition to this monumental China, this classic China that every time turns into a more familiar place for the western travelers, other small stones still exist, the small stones of the borders, inhabited by peoples still scantly well-known, in them they can find the remains of legendary kingdoms and surprising cultures that, in spite of having being incorporated into the Chinese world, a good number of special characteristics preserves at present.

China blooms now as it has not done earlier, with his good things and his bad things, with his miseries and his tragedies, his inequality, his marvels, his sleepless and these secrets different that remain by half. And the true thing is that who approaches her will not go out disappointed, since anyone that is his interest point, will find an offer of activities capable of fulfilling his expectations.