Besom Review of Beijing travel, 5 places you can't miss!

Beijing, China, traveling alone is not difficult. Pin it and go! - The Forbidden city - Beijing Bell & Drum Towers - Temple of Heaven - Great Wall (Badaling) - Summer Palace 1. Flight tickets, accommodation - Prepare documents for return flight and accommodation for Chinese immigration. Sometimes they don't. 2. How to use the internet - Open a SIM card from Thailand to use social media. 3. Must-have apps - Alipay is used to link with Travel Card to pay for everything, shops, restaurants, subway fares, bus fares, and even paying for bicycles. - Wechat is a chat app. You can type in Thai or English. The system will translate into Chinese for you. Add to hotel to send codes, scan to order food in some restaurants. - Use Apple maps, it will be more accurate for checking routes. When you arrive in China, you will be able to use it. - Baidu maps is only in Chinese. I tried using it and it was very confusing. I had to capture the image and translate it in gg translate. - MetroMan is used to check the subway stations in each city. Choose the origin and destination. Very detailed explanation - Google Translate uses both image scanning to help read. Chinese people speak and type for you to read. Translating from images may be a bit silly or funny, but it works. 4. How to travel - If traveling in cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Changsha, I will mainly use the Metro. When you get off the station, you will arrive at the tourist attraction. - Look carefully at the exits of each station. Exiting from the wrong door can really change your life. - The subway requires bag scanning every time, every station, seriously. Drinking water must be drunk and shown off, or small alcohol sprays must be poured out. It depends on the discretion of each station. It is different at every station. - The subway closes at 22.30 / 23.00, depending on the route. - The Shanghai and Beijing Metro uses the Travel Card. You can tap it right away. You don't have to scan and pay for coins at the automatic machine. - China is very large. It takes a lot of time to travel. You have to walk a lot. Some places may require a bit of walking. We can rent a bicycle to ride. Choose the blue color and press through Hello Bike in Alipay. - If you want to call a taxi, you can press DiDi in the Alipay app as well. - High-speed rail For cross-city travel, leave on time, doors close about 5 minutes before, and arrive at the high-speed rail station about 1 hour early. The station is very big. 5. Restaurants, cafes, etc. - There are many restaurants, both in-store and on-street, mostly Chinese menus. - Most of the food is the same style, noodles, wontons, stir-fried vegetables, grilled skewers. - The price is mostly 150 baht or more per dish, but the portions are very large. Don't be dizzy, you can't finish it all. But ask to wrap it up and take it home, they will do it for you. - There are many tea and coffee shops all over the city. It looks like there are no people in front of the shop, but the queue is huge. They will let you order via WeChat, but we can smoothly walk up to the staff and ask if we can order here. We can't read Chinese. They will let us choose the menu and order for us at the counter. 6. How to spend? Scan to pay, Cash - Big cities in China are very cashless. Not a single baht is used in cash. Everything is scanned by Alipay. - But you should have some cash with you. Because sometimes the app is confused with us. Suddenly, we can't pay. 7. Chinese toilets, the real legend - If it's a modern city like Shanghai, you will be impressed. The toilets in the mall are very good. The system is fully automatic. Beijing is okay. - Some cities still have the legend of squatting. - It is recommended to go to the mall. The toilets are generally clean. There are housekeepers all the time. - There are toilets in the subway. 8. Other things to know - If you go on a holiday, there will be a lot of people. Plan well. Leave some time for yourself. - Chinese people still smoke everywhere. Sometimes it makes me angry. Carry a mask. - Carry your passport at all times. You need to use it to buy tickets to enter tourist attractions. - In the subway, there will be people taking care of people at crowded stations or during peak hours. But it's not like our country. People are ready to enter before they leave. Be prepared. - If you want a format with few people and no people, waiting is the only way to win because there are really a lot of people. #TravelEco #TravelChina #TravelChinaByYourself #TravelBeijing #Beijing