Cantonese, Beauty, Great Food … all a short bus ride away

Why fiddle around with airport security, hours in taxis to and from airports, being in a place with only other tourists and leaving gigantic carbon footprints every time you go even on a weekend trip when wonderful Guangdong province is right on your doorstep? That’s what I ask.

Yeah, give me small town China any day. These little towns with their beautiful countryside and surreal and enchanting sights wherever you turn, unsophisticated but easily accessible, beat the shit out of boring old Boracay and tedious Thailand.

We just jumped off the bus as soon as we spotted some scraggy crags, and suddenly we’re in this old village hall where nothing has been touched since probably the 50’s, because there were inscriptions praising Chairman Mao all over the walls.

Some local children took us to their school to go to the toilet, and also made someone open the local shop so we could buy some water.

It was refreshing to see one Chinese school at least completely empty of kids on a Saturday; normally they slave their arses off every day of the week and especially in the school holidays.

Right outside the school gates was a China Drool:

The weather was beautiful, the air fresh, the crags scraggy, the hovelage, needless to say, superb with good incident of Decorative Laundry: yes, what’s not to love? And everywhere we were welcomed by inquisitive locals. These were the only sceptical ones:

but some people just don’t like cameras, do they. Especially when they’re 98 and deaf! Still curious about Whitey though.

And I suppose not every whitey who visits that village puts on pig’s ears and snouts, and proceed to play on the railway line.
(Yes we were shooting a film.)

Guangdong – criminally overlooked! but now you can go into these little tucked-away places without any hassle at all. I’ll deal with all the arrangements and you won’t have to worry about language problems, food misunderstandings, being cheated or, well, anything! Don’t believe what “they” say about China. I’ve been exploring it for 20 years and I can tell you: It’s a constant, never-ending blast. Join my China Tours for some high-grade surrealism, adventure and fun! And the best food. So much better than Hong Kong.