Not at all! I had already noticed that Chinese people traveling on a group tour are, generally speak

Last year I spent some months in Chiang Mai , Thailand. But China follows me everywhere. Or at least, this is the impression I got: there were Chinese tourists at every corner, every restaurant and every coffee shop.
Why Chiang Mai became so fashion within Chinese tourists? It seems that it s because of Lost in Thailand , a popular movie in China (the Chinese version of The Hangover , with less drugs and more kung fu).
Corollary: Chiang Mai s inhabitants got upset with Chinese tourists. So upset that Chiang Mai University started to charge a visiting fee to the hordes of Chinese tourists that arrive every day. Here a quote from the article that reported the news:
Among the more bizarre incidents is Chinese tourists dressing up in the university students′ uniform and taking pictures with the university landmarks, Mr. Rome said, adding that the security guards detained four such tourists yesterday during their cosplay activity.
Disclaimer: Everything that will follow concern Chinese tourists that travel washington dc bus tours on a group tour. Chinese washington dc bus tours people that travel by themselves belong to a totally different class of tourists, probably the best as they don t go to clubs and get super drunk (most popular hobby within Western tourist that visit Thailand after looking for prostitutes), they are super polite and spend a lot of money.
Not at all! I had already noticed that Chinese people traveling on a group tour are, generally speaking, extremely rude, dirty and noisy (YES, more than Italian pigs like myself). A pain in the ass. A fucken tsunami.
When did I make this discovery? One week after I landed in China, while visiting the West Lake of Hangzhou washington dc bus tours . Yes, it s in China that you ll find the worse Chinese tourists, the ones that never traveled before, take a tour to Beijing or the West Lake and think they can behave as they do on their farmer village: smoking, screaming, eating, spitting and littering everywhere (and at the same time).
As an example, the last time I took the flight Shanghai-Hong Kong I had the joy to share the plane with forty tourists coming from Inner Mongolia (Northern China). They were all traveling together and, most likely, it was the first time they were going abroad (although Hong Kong is a Chinese Province, it s a special washington dc bus tours administrative zone and you need to cross a border as if you were going to another country).
Beside washington dc bus tours the mess on the plane, which after we landed looked like a garbage dump, the funniest episode of the trip was during the queue at Hong Kong airport s passport checkout. You know, one of those queues filled with elegant businesses men and shy Hong Kong girls that stare at their iPhone while an unreal silence fills in the room.
I can guarantee to you that, the day the Inner Mongolian horde of tourists landed, there wasn t much silence. They started to overcome the travelers that were before them at the queue while letting a contrail of garbage behind them, screaming and, of course, eating chicken feet and other shit. One even lighted up a Yun Yan cigarette.
Nobody really complained. Everybody (the Hong Kong police, the other Chinese travelers and the international business men) understood what was going on and everybody thought the same: let s just let them go as fast as we can as it s way easier to ignore their primitive behavior than try to deal with it.
I must admit that it was quite funny and that this mess is one of the aspect of China I miss the most every time I leave . But I must be a weird person: washington dc bus tours most of non-Chinese people can t stand this behavior.
As I said at the beginning of this article, Chinese people that travel by themselves washington dc bus tours are completely different. My opinion is that they are well-educated, speak a least a bit of English washington dc bus tours and, generally speaking, know how to behave outside their farmer village in Shandong Province or their neighborhood in North Shanghai.
On another washington dc bus tours hand, Chinese people that take a group tour most luckily don t speak any English and have zero interest for knowing more about other cultures. washington dc bus tours Taking a group tour allow them to travel without changing their habits: they can keep being impolite with waitresses or employees (in China it s socially accepted), littering everywhere washington dc bus tours (in China there are armies of garbage collectors that follow the tourists and clean the place, but the rest of the world is different), smoking all the time (China is the only place in the world where I see people smoking at the airport, outside the smoking room), screaming at the phone, spitting on the floor, washington dc bus tours and so on. The list is quite long!
The tourists take a pic in front of the Tour Eiffel and then go straight washington dc bus tours away to these nice restaurants where they can eat the very same stuff they it in Beijing or Shanghai. You may not believe me, but maybe you ll believe Evan Osnos, who published a fantastic essay, The Grand Tour: Europe on fifteen hundred yuan a day , that describes the behavior of a Chinese group tour in Europe (he joined a tour before to write the essay). Here a short quote taken from the essay:
We followed Li into a small Chinese storefront, down a flight of stairs, and into a hot, claustrophobic hallway flanked by windowless rooms jammed with Chinese diners. It was a hive of activity invisible from the street, a parallel Paris. There were no empty seats, washington dc bus tours so Li motioned for us to continue out the back door, where we turned left and entered a second restaurant, also Chinese. Down another staircase, into another windowless room, where dishes arrived: pork braised in brown sauce, bok choy, egg-drop soup, spicy chicken.
They gain face among their social circle : being to Rome or Paris is a bit like displaying a Picasso on their living room. Since they can t afford a Picasso, they take a twelve days tour to Europe so that, in less than two weeks, they can take a pic in Frankfurt, Paris, Nice, Venice, Florence and Rome. Awesome!
If you re interested on knowing more about this subject you can read Pigs on the Loose: Chinese Tour Groups , a short essay written by Echo Wang, a Chinese girl that traveled around the world and, ashamed by the behavior of her compatriots, decided to write a manifesto against Chinese people that travel on a group tour.
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Presently on the Island of Patmos in Greece with the author of Pigs on the Loose . She is having nightmares about what will happen on the Greek Islands when they finally discover them and start visiting the monasteries here.
it is just insane ! and I must say I nearly lost hope in my interest in chinese culture the first time I saw them, I was quite shocked to be honest, luckily I met way more interesting chinese people after
These tourists they just all run out of the buses take the very same shitty photo with the bus on the way, then 5 minutes later run to the huge queue of the nearby packed crappy chinese washington dc bus tours restaurant, You can see groups of dozens all day long like that, spitting and screaming then disapearing without even noticing their environment.
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