Backpacking | Budget Travel | Living Abroad
Travelling across China can be pretty tough for first-timers, and even tougher if you are short on cash. Let’s face it, the days of having supremely cheap travel in China are long gone and just a distant memory. Prices for food, airline tickets and hotels are gradually increasing, with China’s economy and tourism picking up […]
This post will see us take a look at the estimated cost of travel in China. We have two daily travel budgets – one for shoestring travellers and one for those on a slightly more comfortable backpacking budget. Further down, you will find more details on the local currency and typical prices for travel in […]
In this post, we’re going to to look at the busiest airports in China with demand for air travel, both domestic and international, having boomed in the country in recent years. China is busy building new airports or expanding and modernising existing ones too with the trend expected to continue once we finally move on […]
Today we’re going to look at the busiest airports in Asia. Below you can find the top ten by passenger numbers and we also take a look at how the pandemic radically altered air travel across the continent in 2020 when most international services were halted. The data comes from the 2019 Airport Traffic Report […]
Today, we’re going to try to find the largest subway system in the world. As some of the world’s megacities continue to grow, there are many expanding subway, metro and underground systems catering to increasing numbers of passengers each year. That’s particularly the case in China which has expanded its five largest metro networks since […]
Despite growing concerns about the impact of air travel on climate change, the 2010’s was a decade which continued to see growing numbers of people travelling by air. In this post we’re going to look at the busiest airports in the world according to the 2019 Airport Traffic Report. All of these airports handled hundreds […]
In this post, we’ll run through the most populated capital cities in the world. It may come as a surprise to some to note that only three of the world’s ten most populous cities are actually national capitals. Several Chinese mega-cities would feature in that rundown while giant metropolises such as Istanbul and Karachi are […]
