2 Weeks Traveling in China
This is my full journey traveling across China, from Shanghai to Beijing on the Chinese High-Speed Rail, then into Hong Kong and Macau.
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Happy Chinese New Year/Happy Lunar New Year! In celebration of the Year of the Dragon, I have uploaded my entire journey through China. If you watched my last video you'll know that I'm taking a bit of a rest right now after a busy 2023. In the meantime, I'm releasing my 3 favourite trips in 2023 stitched together for you. New videos are coming soon! Thank you as always for your ongoing support of me and the channel, and for understanding that I need a break - we all do! Love, Josie xx
Please my lovely sister do visit to Russia we wanna watch a video from Russia by you please my sister ❤❤
I'm hoping you return and feature again another China trip. China is more than just Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau. There are many hidden gems especially smaller ancient cities and towns in China much worthy visiting like Lijiang, Xian, Guilin, Harbin, Kashgar, etc... :)
I LOVE GOD AND JESUS I ALSO SERVE THEM NOT THE LAYING SATANIC DEPRAVED BRITISH GOVERNMENT THEY ARE MORE FREE THAN US WE HAVE WAR MONGERES HATE CHINA HATE RUSSIA THERE NOT THE THREAT TO US ITS THIS GOVERNMENT THAT IS ITS AMERICA AND THIS LOT IN PARLIAMENT THAT WANT A 111 WORLD WAR
If you’re in China ，we call it Happy Chinese new year ，not lunar new year❤thx
GOD BLESS JOSIE ILL WATCH YOU LATER IM GOING TO MAKE SOME PORRIDGE FOR MY DINNER GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT I EAT THE BLOODY GOUT AS RETURNED HAVENT HAD THAT FOR YEARS.
Thanks for sharing this Josie, I’ve just finished up my trip in China too, what an amazing experience travelling this country. I hope to be back soon. Can we all appreciate how awesome Josie’s China vids are!🙋♂️🙌❤
Hi!!! Just watched your China video 😄
Love the longer Chinese content 🇨🇳 ❤️ hope to see you back here soon!
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year. Wishing you all the best in your career and good health!😊
It's Alan and Shannon! I am a big fan of your channel! Just saw you couple enjoying some Cantonese food! 😁
中国媳妇卡佳 @LiaoKatya
Ohhhh hi Alan and Shannon are here heh
Happy Chinese new year!
As a Chinese citizen i would strongly suggest every one coming to have a local with you (tour guide, friends etc.), because you are missing out sooo much! The language and information barrier really limited ur experience here - food, attractions and actual experience: e.g. we would buy everything and pay with our phone - and thank you Josie for revealing what's it really like! Feel free to ask me anything under this comment 🌹Happy New Year!
Hey! What are some thing you'd do with a foreign friend that they wouldn't do by theirselves?
@@luketi789 First is definitely the food. Foreigners don't really get the true authentic local ones for their lack of information. Second is the local life - for example Josie is definitely missing some of the key parts of Chinese's life like mobile payment and buying everything on phone, etc. last is the attractions and hotels cuz the places foreigners usually go to are the ones that are a bit outdated sometimes - For example no tourists really go to the city park - they may be built in the early phase of China's economic development and may not represent the full image of it. In terms of Shanghai my favourite would be the Lujiazui, and the museums and streets that hide away from the center.
@@luketi789 China is so big a country that there are different traditions for areas. For example, in Chinese new year, Shanghai downtown become silent and the people only give blessing each other when they meet on the street. However, if you travel to some areas of southern China, you can get the chance the take part in the amazing New year events. (You can try to search "英歌舞" in KZhead to find some videos about kind of shows. But, you have to know different activities are there every day during Chinese new year and special activities will be hold in some special years) Even me, a native Shanghai people, don't know much about it. If I travel to Chao-Shan area, I also need find some local friends to query where and when I can find the best activities. China is absolutely much much much more interesting than the vlogs show you. It is so lucky if you have local friends everywhere in China that you can enjoy all the fun. But, I know, it is hard even for Chinese local people.
I need your guide my friend. How much do you think i'd need to spend at least 2 weeks there?
@@juliozandamela where are you going? Living cost vary a lot in terms of cities and living standards etc.
follow all your other videos in china as you were uploading them, finally leaving for my trip in 2 weeks!! Thanks for all the recent post covid footage, super excited to go back to china.
Glad you like them! Thank you so much! I’m excited for your trip! Haha. Hopefully I can inspire some more trips this year 😁😁😂
@@josieliftsthings Hello, I am going in a week, I see you used Google translator. Did you used any VPN while in China?
Happy Chinese New Year🧧
Thank you Josie and Michael for sharing. I love it. Happy CNY!
Hei Josie and Michael 🇦🇺🇦🇺I liked your review tour of China🇨🇳 on Chinese Happy New Year 2024.I think both of you are enjoying your Holidays in Australia🇦🇺
This was so fun to watch! ❤ could totally feel your appreciation and happiness! All the food looks so bomb!
Great to see you back!
春节快乐！ Happy Chinese New Year!
so happy to see you enjoying your trip in china, happy chinese new year~
Love your vibe... always positive and smiling despite difficulties, and always trying to learn and understand.. .you two are good partners, and best wishes to whatever you're going to do in future... you've got a new subscriber😊
totally agree positive energy draws good vibe energy even by just watching Josie's video her smiling, giggle are contagious. what a personal human character to have. I wish everyone in the West has this kind of open minded rather listening blindly to the NEGATIVE mainstream teaching us to hate China thus eventually negative attitude to Chinese people because China can't be separated from her people. Please live and let's live and be harmonious and enjoy each other diversity that's what the world exciting otherwise too boring same old thing right?
Thank you both so much 🥹🥹🙏🙏
This is such a well done video. Really immersive and informative and entertaining. Good on you guys!
Thank you!!! Thanks for watching 😁
I came from Shanghai and I have lived in Sydney for 12 years. For some unknown reasons through your videos I am having a new fresh look at the things that I was so used to and your joyfulness was contagious. Love your vibe, love your positivity, the world need more people who like you that open their arms and heart to explore and understand.
Wow what a lovely comment. This was so nice to read, thank you so much! I love that you found my video, but I love that you enjoyed it even more!!! It’s always interesting when people live or visit where you are from (you lived in my home of Sydney) and now I feel like I’ve done the same for you!!! 😂 Please let me know if you have any recommendations for places in china to visit that are a little off the beaten track, it may help with my planning! 😉 Thank you again for watching! 🙏☺️
Love your style, so down to earth and humble at the same time vivid and adorable 🥰
Michael really did an amazing job, doing all the travelling plans and learning so much about each attraction beforehand, e.g. Huiyinbi in the Temple of Heaven. I'm very impressed!!
1:04:25 and he even knew that the hot cake was supposed to be dipped into the huaihuami (a type of honey)! He really knew it all!!
Hi, Josie! Enjoy your break👋
Loved this many thanks❤
Thanks for uploading. I have missed China so much ❤
中国媳妇卡佳 @LiaoKatya
I don't think I'll ever be able to travel the world, but at least when i watch your videos I can get a true taste of how it really feels to be there! Love watching you try new foods, its my favorite part 😊 Definitely been subscribed since you went to India so I was sad when so few people that watch you are subscribed! Have a nice long break girl, yall deserve it!
Happy Chinese new year 🧧🧧 Welcome to china, hope you can come to china again, just don’t learn about a place through the media but through you own eyes❤❤
I love to travel to China. It's an amazing country and I wish more people can see the country in person. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Love it Josie!! I lived and worked in China for 2 years. It was a real experience! I could not compare it to anything - Happy Lunar New year 🧧party🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊
Happy Chinese new year
Lunar New Year are for Korean ,no AngBao but Bokjumeoni/Lucky Bag, Lion put on a mask /Lion Mask Dance different from what you see in China
@@rixingchen8753韩国的新年简单来说是中国的流传版本😂，毕竟他们的习俗是中国传过去的😂
What an awesome idea for a video! You guys really do come up with the coolest content ideas. This is super for us newer subscribers. Gonna watch the whole movie now 🍿🎞 ❤ 🇨🇳
Welcome to come back China,,hope u enjoy ur China traveling ❤❤❤
happy CNY~❤🎉
Great video dude happy CNY🎉
wish you both happy chinese new year!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful trip. Really enjoyed your energy❤ i hope you guys will make it back again to Beijing for a revenge visit 😅 the old palace is just magnificent. And Tiantan temple is breathtakingly beautiful. A must see.
Happy new year Josie, best wishes for you 🎊
Thank you so much! Same to you 😁😁
Hope more and more people from the West can come to see for themselves , China is a friendly, modern and free place, the complete opposite to what the Western media depicts.
Happy Chinese new year❤
Happy Chinese New Year 🎉🎉🎉
Very nice video. I watched your shorter episodes before and I commend you for exploring China with a positive attitude when weather was hot, communications were challenging and app based payments and reservations weren’t something you would be familiar with. You did your homework, put a lot on your short itinerary and made a great video out of it. Congrats
Enjoy the trip🥰, I recommend a city for you, it is Xi'an, my hometown as well. It is also a really really famous tourist city in China.
Sounds great! This was from my trip last year, but I will keep that in mind for my next trip! 😁😁
I saw your video about China four months ago, and it was very good. It's China New Year, and I'm glad to see the video of you coming to China again. A lot of people are watching your video, letting people know the real China. Rather than the negative image of the western media. You can have a good time in China with an open mind!
Welcome to China again!
You both look so nice!❤❤
Such an unique and interesting content!
Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese new year and thank you for sharing this journey. It seems that our country still inconvenient for foreign backpackers, so thank you for letting us know what we need to do better :). if you would like to visit again, welcome to my hometown Suzhou . Wish you all the best.❤
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I love that you take the constructive criticism so graciously. Thank you for watching! 😁
@@josieliftsthings Your suggestions have been noticed by the Chinese government. At the beginning of 2024, they are formulating policies to make it easier for friends to travel in China and have food, clothing, housing and transportation more conveniently! Thank you for your friendship and support for China!
Happy Chinese new year🎉❤🎉
Great sharing.
cool video, very informative, fair play!❤
Wow what an awesome video Josie!!! I am sure this took you a long time to edit - but so nice that you dropped this on Chinese New Year! I have never been so this gives me a really good idea of what to do when I do go. Love your videos on both your channels - keep it up!
Thank you so much!!
Happy Chinese new year ！
可口可乐in Chinese means tasty and happiness. And it has the almost same pronunciation with Coca-Cola,,Chinese characters give it real meaning.
Hi from London have subscribed❤️Informative content, do’s and don’t very helpful. Well balanced views. I hope to visit China next year❤️London🇬🇧
Thank you and welcome!!! Thanks so much for watching 😁😁😊😊
As a young man from a small fifth-tier city in mainland China. I like your video style very much. It can be seen that Michael has done some preparation before coming to China. You are also welcome to travel around China, see more places and see the rapid changes in small cities. welcome to China.
Well done on the Macau trip, all the famous tourist spots in one day. The hotel casinos on the strip are all connected either on top or lower street level
Just like a movie🥹. Hope someday I could also visit this amazing country.
You could find similar Jianbing in Sydney. Highly recommended the one in Lemon Grove building in Chatswood. Very authentic!
Oh I am in Sydney at the moment - I have to go try but I didn’t know where, now I do! Thank you!
What an epic trip! Hope you will go back to China and make more videos!
funny how I already watched all the behind the scenes from your other channel!! felt like i already got a sneak peak :)
Loving China ❤
中国媳妇卡佳 @LiaoKatya
happy China tour❤❤❤
welcome，happy Chinese new year
I can't wait to go one day❤
love from China❤
I am glad that you are willing to show a well-rounded China to native Americans.Welcome to China again.
I’m actually an Indigenous Native American from a Federally Recognized Tribe. 🤔💭👍🏽🫶🏽 *Just for reference, these two are AUSTRALIAN 🇦🇺 though.
中国媳妇卡佳 @LiaoKatya
not native Americans, native English speakers, that’s what you meant. I’ve spent 30 years in America and have yet to meet some native Americans outside the reservations, casinos or frontier festivals. The Anglo-Saxons have managed to suppress their cultures and heritage and turn them into relics
Happy Chinese New Year! 22:54 Joise trying to get footage in her own vlog and the famous line from Josie LMAO 😁
Let's get it!!!
Thanks for sharing your experience. Chinese American here, I hope to see China soon as well
Happy chinese new year!!
great video for sharing❤
Thank you! 🤗
I always thought that Shanghai was so expensive and was reluctant to go there because of it, but I'm from London and watching your video made me realise that compared to our prices, everything else is soooo affordable. I'll definitely visit on my upcoming China trip, thank you! Such a lovely video 💕 also don't come to England, everything is overpriced here 😥x
When we visited the Great Wall 20 years ago we hiked both up and down to the wall.
You are really admirable. Twenty years is too long. If you still have time, you can go back to China again and experience the changes of twenty years. You will like it.
learned a lot from this video.
Very welcome you to china, and also appreciate you show to the real chinese life to the world. Enjoy your journey!😄
hello Mis joise wooow you are looking us the amazing China.nice travel vog & best experience keep it a way. Nice to meet you 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😊🎉🎉
Happy New Year❤
i left a comment in your previous video that the poster at 0:02 made me really happy cos it’s my favourite actor wang yibo in my favourite travel vlogger’s video. josie was kind enough to like my comment and now she’s also put it in the intro of her new video so i’m fully convinced she did it for me 🥹 (haha just kidding, i’m not that delusional hahaha) great video as always josie, hope to see you back in china again. i recommend checking out luoyang, i heard it used to be the ancient capital of china so it has a rich history and has preserved many ancient palaces. it’s on my personal to-visit list as well once i get a little more financially independent ☺️
中国媳妇卡佳 @LiaoKatya
Happy Chinese new year
expect your coming back ❤
Happy Chinese New year
LOL the peach juice moment 😂🎉 SUPER CUTE 💛
The important thing is that when you truly step into this country, you will find that some of the news you have heard before is not true. Of course, there are still many places in China that need to be done better, but it is still moving forward slowly. Welcome to Beijing next time, as spring in Beijing usually looks better. I hope you can spend more time in Beijing next time, so that you can better understand this city.
Enjoy your videos very much! Love China content 🇨🇳 ❤ ! Thanks for showing the real nice China!
Amazing country
中国媳妇卡佳 @LiaoKatya
Loving China❤❤❤
You guys are so cute and down yo earth!! Loved this video.
WOO thank you!!! So happy you loved it 😭😁😁😁🙏
Your guys come back China again ？ Wow， seems last time China surprises you a lot. So you guys plan to make a deeper exploration. Have a good time in China ! Happy Chinese New Year !
It's like you were a close friend to me even though i just subscribe u today.all is because you are so kind and true❤
新年快乐
great video and an amazing trip in China, I believe there will be more and more people who can speak English in China, especially in our young generations like me, thanks for visiting my country
The future trend is that more and more people learn Chinese.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
🙋Watching ur video in Newcastle rn!
Awesome video
👍👍👍👏👏👏impressive and well done
happy new year.
btw, the warm cake you got in Beijing was made of rice powder i think so it tastes nothing like cakes made of flour and cream. the sauce actually was like some kind of jam made from a kind of scented flower called "guihua"
Regarding the high speed railway part, probably try first class next time, which definitely brings better experience. Also, it would definitely be more expensive considering a travel of 1300km in just 5 hours.
新年快乐。。。
Good to know you enjoyed China and it is right with western media being bias with China and always label it as bad. One little correction, we say / call Chinese New Year and not Luna New Year. :)
Everyone knows the holiday origins from China. While different countries celebrate different version of CNY, Lunar new year is the correct term whereby it is the common ground to address this holiday. She is correct to call it as LNY, while you are correct to call it CNY. But it is obnoxious when you try to correct her to call it CNY.
I don't really want to get into debate as this is someone's video and I just threw in a random comment. Chinese New Year is just that, why change it? because they want something that belongs to them and different to the Chinese. It's like taking the Moon Cake and call it Lunar Cake and now it doesn't relate as much to the Chinese, others then can relate to. But at the end of the day it is the same thing.
@@Zosla83 this is the limitation of local Chinese’s understanding. Let me get you one fact. The education system oversea use 农历新年 or 华人新年（for Chinese ethnic) instead of 中国年。while China Chinese will use 中国年 which rhyme as CHinese new year as well. you see oversea people see this as a new year celebration in their country， not 中国年 or 华人新年 since some of them not chinese ethnic, or Chinese assimilated well locally, but still celebrate it. So lunar near year is more correct term for global usage instead of CNY. I guess you never understand that or even try to understand that as you are heavily influenced by your social media or big G teaching 🤷
Great stuff, you just repeated what I said in a nicer way, I do apologise if I was too blunt.
@@daniellew2271so ,if everyone knows cny origins from china,why need to change the name. everyone knows usd from USA, using it everywhere, how about change its name like currency?
The playground you visited the first was where I went when I was a kid, 30 years ago. Now it’s just a small park in the community. There are more interesting playgrounds in Shanghai. But it is also a very memorable place, reminding me of my childhood
Josie，Its not just lunar new year, Its Chinese LunarNew year, Chinese New Year!🐲🐲🐉
The board game the men were playing at the park is Xiang Qi. It is an east Asian chess, played in Vietnam Korea and Japanese also plays a version of it.
So many things and places to go in china. Macau does look like vegas and maybe even better