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Q: Most disappointing Chinese tourist site?
What tourist site in China do you think fails most spectacularly to live up to its hype? For me it's the Terracotta Warriors. Maybe it's because I had heard friends tell me for years how "breathtaking" it is, but I was pretty underwhelmed. I mean, yeah, I get it, a lot of clay figures. All in rows. Must have been pretty awesome to discover it, but not worth traveling across the country to see, IMHO.
11 years 23 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
Pretty much any "famous site" has been a disappointment to me. China has a way of taking something nice and making it look fake and tacky. Then you throw in hundreds of thousands of tourists climbing all over everything and treating it like their personal garbage dump and you just end up with something that is just a complete waste of time.
One of the easiest ways to get a bad impression of Chinese people is to go someplace filled with Chinese tourists. For some reason, the act of being on vacation just seems to amplify every stereotype you have ever heard of.
On the positive side, Chinese tourists have now taken the number 1 spot in the "worlds least liked tourists" list which makes Americans almost seem civilized in comparison.
I agree, stay away from any advertised famous site........ go find your own, they are out there .... this is especially true in China, but I think the same for any over-hyped place in the world.
Forbidden City lives up to its name. Bored the bejesus outta me.
Terracotta Warriors: they're indoors and you can't even get near them.
Everything has its season around here; I avoid travelling anytime there is a national holidays as all of the tourist spots are just beyond the pale, so to speak, at that point. Of course I am always saddened by the site of the beaches up where I live -- the setting is quite nice, the ocean nice, the sand filthy with garbage beyond repair, etc., etc. On the other hand, I have ridden the backroads of Liaoning Province on my bicycle during the spring/summer/autumn months, and then I have seen some beautiful, relatively left-alone places, small ponds, lakes, temples, small mountains, lots of birch tree forests, but only the backroads.
Qingdao Sealife World, saw the worlds saddest looking polar bear, pacing back and forth in its little pen while everyone had their photo's taken in front of it. The place would be shut down immediately if it was in a country where animal welfare is taken seriously.
Austrian village in Huizhou, Guangdong.
It was built for a construction company to show case their houses (which are all empty shells) and there's nothing to do other than take cute weibo photos and other BS. Not restaurants, no direct transport there so it's a huge pain in the ass to find it, and there's no attractions.
A lot of wasted potential.
