Ancient vs. Modern China: Cities That Show Both Worlds
China is a country of time folds which are fascinating. In the morning, you can have tea sitting in a 1,000-year-old courtyard, and in the afternoon, you can be riding a bullet train at 300 km/h.
That combination of the old wisdom and the newest progress is precisely what makes traveling in China so breathtaking.
It wasn’t until I was standing in the shadow of Beijing’s Forbidden City one day, and then the next, I was going shopping in a gleaming, high-tech mall in Sanlitun, that I really understood this contrast.