Category: Travel

  • 8 Essential Apps for Life and Travel in China

    8 Essential Apps for Life and Travel in China

    China has a whole universe of awesome apps that you may not have ever heard about, but once you land here, you’ll find them indispensable! For everything from online chatting to making payments, finding great restaurants to hailing a taxi, these 9 apps will help you navigate China like a local! WeChat 微信  The one app…

  • Hike the Most Magnificent Mt. Wuyi

    Hike the Most Magnificent Mt. Wuyi

    Explore one of the most spectacularly beautiful areas of southeastern China, Mount Wuyi that comes with a pleasant climate, fascinating scenery and time-honored history. Wuyishan is one of the most beautiful Danxia Landforms in China including popular historical and cultural heritages such as Daoism culture, Lingnan culture, and tea culture. If you are a nature lover…

  • Do You Know How to Rent a Car in China?

    Do You Know How to Rent a Car in China?

    How you ever wondered what it’d be like to travel across all those memorable provinces in China from something other than poorly-built buses? The GiC team to the rescue! Today, we’re going to take a look at how you can go about renting a car so you can start enjoying all that China has to…

  • This Beautiful Hong Kong Porter Went Viral!

    This Beautiful Hong Kong Porter Went Viral!

    It’s pretty stereotypical that when we think of porters we instantly think of hardworking men, right? In 2017, a netizen uploaded a video of a female porter showing off her muscles carrying a heavy load. The work of a porter is very manual including lifting and carrying very heavy stuff and running around. Nowadays, many…

  • Do You Find It Weird When Chinese People Hold Hands?

    Do You Find It Weird When Chinese People Hold Hands?

    Since many of us living and working in China come from a variety of cultures and regions of the world, it’s easy to encounter a multitude of culture shocks when engaging with others. Here are a few habits Chinese people have that a lot of foreigners have trouble getting over. 1. Drinking hot water It’s weird…

  • This Man Was Named the World’s Greatest Dad After Doing This

    This Man Was Named the World’s Greatest Dad After Doing This

    In the endless stream of Instagram fitness web celebrities, one of them has come out on top recently. He doesn’t have strong muscles nor a “perfect” body. He isn’t tall nor particularly handsome; in fact, he’s got a bit of a beer belly going on. And yet, despite all those imperfections, he has been called…