I'm 22, from New Zealand, and last year I saved up and told everyone I was going to backpack China. Almost everyone asked the same question: why China? Three weeks, four cities and less than $2,000 later — 5am streets in neon cities, a glass skybridge 250 meters up, trains that drive through apartment buildings, food that makes your mouth go static, and a side of my own family I'd never met. This is what traveling China at 22 is actually like — what it costs, what shocked me, and what nobody warns you about.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why China at 22?
0:41 Arrival — the first 48 hours
2:39 The nights (home at 5am)
4:30 Chongqing — the city with no ground floor
7:14 The food education
9:48 The part I didn't plan for
11:07 What 3 weeks actually cost
11:47 The honest part
13:36 The verdict
Everything in this video was filmed by me in China. More China on this channel — subscribe and come along. And tell me in the comments: what would YOU check out first — the vertical city, the 5am streets, or the capybara café?
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