The Language-barrier
In rural China nobody, but nobody seemed to understand a single word of English. And soon we realised how very presumptuous our expectation that they would. To the Chinese, China is the centre of the Universe – English and the West simply do not exist or at best are vague notions easily ignored. It was quite refreshing actually…tough, but refreshing.

Navigation was tricky for the route markers were in all written in Mandarin
Since we couldn’t read the route markers we bought a Mandarin map and simply pointed to our destination when asking for directions