China Travel

PeoplesPoster

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Is that a white fox in the last photo? China is very big and many places worth going to. The problem is how much time do you have? I don't think I'll have time for another vacation in the next few years. And should I have time for another vacation, I would consider a different country as the world is even larger, and we might have too little time to go to the same place again.
Yep a white fox, saw several along the road in the Wutai Mountains, probably learned that tourists will throw food away along the road.
 

CrazyHorse

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What is drinking water like in China? Where I live, tap water is excellent due to relatively little pollution and good treatment, but I heard that in China you generally don’t drink tap water due to pollution and lead pipes. Are there lots of filtered water bottle filling stations? What’s recycling like if I need to buy bottled?
 

TPenglake

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As a Chinese person, I have never heard of this claim. In China, it's common practice to drink boiled tap water.
But isn't the boiling meant to kill off any bacteria that may be in the water? I would assume that generally that's good enough and one doesn't have to go as far as to filter the water on top of that?
 

CrazyHorse

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As a Chinese person, I have never heard of this claim. In China, it's common practice to drink boiled tap water.
That won’t reduce heavy metal/chemical contamination, I’ve read that in some cities it’s absolutely fine, but also that Shanghai water is possibly dangerous, but I’m also just having a hard time finding testing results.
 

Nevermore

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What is drinking water like in China? Where I live, tap water is excellent due to relatively little pollution and good treatment, but I heard that in China you generally don’t drink tap water due to pollution and lead pipes. Are there lots of filtered water bottle filling stations? What’s recycling like if I need to buy bottled?
Generally speaking, tap water can be drunk after it is boiled. In some old urban areas or areas with poor infrastructure in China, the water quality may be slightly poor, but I have never heard of lead. Areas with poor water quality usually have some scale, which is not a big problem. A few people do not like the taste of tap water and will buy bottled water themselves. If it is a bucket like the one in a water dispenser, there will be someone to deliver and receive the bucket.
 
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