After lunch we went for a wander through the local shopping malls, first was the trendy mall attached to the hotel with Prada, Hugo Loss, Mont Blanc and many other designer labels - it was a joke really, there would have been 5:1 ratio of staff vs. customers – someone really screwed up their demographic research when building this mall or at least fitting it out with these excessive cost brands – let’s face it, this is a country where the poverty line is set at less than USD$1 per day (then you are officially poor) and the average earning per capita of the agricultural sector in China is USD$1750 per annum!
I am planning to live to 200 .... so far so goodThanks.Harbin has now gone on my bucket list.The way it is going I will have to live to 100.:shock:
Put simply, if there's something you can't find out about a planned trip to China that's not in this thread - its simply not worth knowing about
I've been enthralled by this trip report, hanging out for the next update as it's been that dammed good. Really appreciate all the hard work that's gone into writing it.
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TPE-BKK rt in I (Business) Class can be had for around AUD600.