My mum grew up in Guiyang. My dad grew up in Chongqing. I grew up in New Zealand, and the last time I was in China I was a kid, ten years ago. So this summer, Kaede and I went back: three weeks, six cities, one typhoon, from Hong Kong all the way down to Hainan.
This is the whole trip in one video: the world's biggest electronics market, a $40 five-star hotel, a 24-hour spa, my mum's hometown that nobody's heard of, my dad's city built into the mountains, capybaras, meerkats and a lot of lychees.
If you've got a place in your family's story you haven't been back to, tell me in the comments where you'd go first.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Going back after 10 years
1:30 Hong Kong: one day, yum cha
3:44 Caught in a typhoon on Victoria Peak
9:33 Crossing into Shenzhen
11:40 The world's biggest electronics market
15:45 $10 'designer' jewellery
18:09 China's biggest Latino party
21:21 A $40 five-star hotel
23:16 China's 24-hour spa
26:50 Shenzhen's best Mexican, and the truth about 'dangerous' China
30:26 Guiyang: back to mum's hometown
33:49 A night out with zero tourists
37:40 The park from my childhood
42:40 Guiyang won best coffee in the world?
47:07 The best nights are the ones you least expect
50:09 Chongqing: dad's city
52:12 A city bombed 200 times
56:20 Capybara café + 40°C glass skywalk
59:39 Chengdu: meerkat café
1:01:52 Hainan: the last day
1:04:59 Final hours of the trip
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