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I don't think foreigners are allowed to drive in China.
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That is not true...
One easy example is my wife, she is Han Chinese, born in Tianjin, went to Australia for university study got her MBA, and became an Australian citizen.
She returned to China to be closer to her family.. She has a PRC drivers license..
Also I have spent 10 weeks of the last year in China with my wife..... my last trip I arrived on Jan 3rd.. and when she picked me up at the Beijing Airport.. There is a kiosk where you can get temporary driver licenses...
One funny thing is my wife drives around Beijing, down to her parents in Tianjin and doesn't blink an eye...
Yet when we go to visit her Buddhas temple (Mianfengshan) .. which is in a mountainous area west of Beijing... she asks me to drive the last 40 minutes of the trip..she is scared of the switchbacks and undulations of the road.. So I drive
But she will do battle with Beijing taxi drivers?
Road to the temple.... Except for the occasional Equine pulled vehicle I think it is a nice road to open up a flat six..
This is a typical scene on a side street (Xi'an in this case)
When you go to the Great Wall... don't go to Badaling go to Mutianyu.... it is less traveled...this picture was taken on a crisp clear spring day... notice how many people are on the wall...Badaling would have been a standing room only on the same day..
BTW I have been to a few sections of the Great Wall
In my time in China besides Beijing, I have visited Xi'an, Hufei, Huangshan, Taianjin, Hangu...
MY wife did all hotel reservations and in country plane reservations..
she did use
"Ctrip" to book everything...
In Xi'an she found an amazing hotel that cost us around $50/night... can't find pics of the room...
Though this is a room we stayed in in Huangshan... (Yellow Mountain) This was $75/night.. Oops cant find a pic of the room without me or my wife and stepson in it..