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Re: China Travel Tips Posted on: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:07:01 -0600



OurTravelGuy wrote:

> China Travel Tips
>
> Survival China Travel Tips and Tricks
>
> These China Travel Tips, Survival Techniques, will help you get around
> and make your trip to China easier, so you will be able to experience
> the real China with a little less stress.
>
> China is an odd beast that needs to be respected; the major cities,
> Beijing, Shanghai, and Xian, all have their own personalities...
>
> China Travel Tips - The Food
>
> · The food is great and the variety is overwhelming. Most of the time
> you get to choose what you eat, or you can recognize what you're
> eating, however sometimes you do not get a choice. Carry a chocolate
> bar or something; this will keep you going until some food that you can
> recognize turns up. Drink bottled or boiled water, as the tap water is
> NOT safe to drink, this is for the whole of China. Even boiled water,
> while sterilised can contain a lot of minerals and iron deposits that
> you probably do not want in your system. The safest bet is to drink
> bottle water. Tap water in most big cities is OK for brushing teeth.
>

You should warn them that water cannot be taken on internal flights.

In addition if it is not safe to drink then it is not safe for brushing
teeth.

I wonder if the whole article is as bad as the excerpt?


> · Eating habits - Most Chinese people have a great habit of being
> very noisy when they eat and lunch and dinner times can be a
> wonderfully noisy celebration, food tends to go in all directions, its
> just part of being in China...
>
> Read the entire article at
> http://www.ourtraveltips.com/travel/china_travel_tips.html
>