First trip to Southern China

Also, I'm planning to travel in January.

How fucked am I?

if you can,
fly to suzhou/hangzhou/shanghai
coz imo guangzhou/shenzhen are not worth it

check the train prices or overnight bus prices to guilin to see if that fits your budget.

mainlanders actually highly recommended yunnan to me, so i expect there are going to be a lot of chinese tourists.

sichuan can be also fun if you don't mind the winter.

also the only thing to do if you don't speak chinese: always have your next destination written down in chinese on your phone. just pointing at that, you will always be sent to the right location.

even if you're on a budget, you might want to hit the first china unicom (the one with the red logo) shop. or a random small shop that sells china unicom sims. again google translate "i want to buy a prepaid simcard" beforehand, and show it to the shop assistant. they will put the options in front if you. it's all megabytes/gigabytes and yuan, so you will understand. (that china unicom prepaid sim can be used all over china, the subscriptions others might want to sell you only work in a given city.)

>>1187623

Not really many Chinese tourists, surprisingly. Expect to see more non-Chinese tourists.

>>1187619
Chengdu wasn't too bad when I went.

Also Lhasa.

>>1187594
>that pic
fuck i've never heard of this place before looks comfy

>>1187746
op's pic is the better and much bigger one, but fenghuang in hunan also has a similar vibe.