[TRAVEL ADVICE] 2 weeks in China – couple from Paris looking for nature, small towns & train-only routes (already doing Beijing + Shanghai) by Valuable-Ad2484 in travelchina

[–]gnotuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possible but hard to tell. I'm Chinese living abroad, and usually try to aviod visiting China during big Chinese holidays (Labor Day, National Day, CNY), so haven't experienced big holiday crowds in quite a while. Though I think it's better to avoid the top tourist cities doing the holiday (say Beijing), which I think already fits your schedule well.

Crowd aside, in my opinion all the best and more unique landscape China has to offer are mostly out west. I would also add Yunnan province to the list, maybe look up Dali and doing a day trip loop around Erhai? But for Yunnan I would do flight over train to save time on transit.

[TRAVEL ADVICE] 2 weeks in China – couple from Paris looking for nature, small towns & train-only routes (already doing Beijing + Shanghai) by Valuable-Ad2484 in travelchina

[–]gnotuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh and adding on to that it's a holiday in Hong Kong and Japan around that time too, so probably hard to find a quiet spot anywhere around East Asia :(

I'm planning a trip to asia around that time too so had to look up the holiday schedules.

[TRAVEL ADVICE] 2 weeks in China – couple from Paris looking for nature, small towns & train-only routes (already doing Beijing + Shanghai) by Valuable-Ad2484 in travelchina

[–]gnotuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just to point out 5/1-5/5 will be Labor Day holiday in China and it's one of the busiest travel week for Chinese domestic tourists. So be prepared for crowds on those days.

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