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any updates yeah. So, today we have another video and we are talking about
the 5 best places that we have actually visited, mostly her, I haven't
been to most of these places, but we're talking about the top five kind of best
places that we visited so far so this is not a definitive list we haven't been
everywhere in China but the places that we have been are pretty cool and we're
going to talk about the five that we've liked the most. So, we're gonna start with
number five which is actually Hainan and she's been there twice. So, she'll tell
you all about it. I have not been there yet.... I've been to Hainan on twice since the time
I've been in China and it is a really nice vacation and summer destination.
The beaches are nice, it is very tropical there is delicious seafood and there is abundance
of fresh fruit which makes me really happy like coconut especially! There are
hotels with lovely pools to chill out yeah yeah and beaches and not only
that there's also jungle and national parks, which you can go explore. So it is
a really diverse Island and there's something for everyone. You can do
water sports as well if you want to do like action stuff. So yeah Hainan is a
really nice place to go to. Yeah, so I've seen some of the videos
that she's done in the past and also obviously got to see the photos and talk
to her when she was there and yeah it seems like a really cool place. I would
love to go it's definitely on my list maybe... summer time?
Yeah, make sure you go on a time that isn't a Chinese holiday, I would suggest...
Yeah and also avoid the rainy season, I mean because it does
rain it is a tropical island and it's kind of down south. So it's gonna
get wet. Yeah it's a very popular and summer destination; vacations.
For Russians and for Chinese alike... Yeah. So bear that in mind when you go there.
Right, so one of the things that we're doing is answering the community
question and what we asked in the last question was "How long do you think we
have been married?" So, we'll answer that at the end.
So, stick around for that, but number four on our list is Yangshou. Yeah and again I
have not been there but this girl... cause she has so much time off, she gets to
go everywhere all the time. So, I think it was last year? I think it was last year...
It was two years ago that I went to Yangshou, I flew into Quilin. I had some extra time
after our summer vacation and I decided to go explore that area and also there
very hot, very humid, so bear in mind when you go think about that; what the best
time is but it's amazing this place even to travel on your own. You can hike, you
can bike throughout the countryside and the countryside is amazing because the
mountains the Karst Mountains are just unbelievably, like unbelievably pretty.
like how do you say that? "Unbelievably" um you can go rafting on little racks like flats
is it a flats like a flat... like an inter-tube?
No it like a flat bamboo little boat but... Okay.... Anyways, you can do that... Did you do it? No. So why are you mentioning it?
You can do it if you like! I don't want to do it because it was like super touristy!
You can even take a boat from Quilin all the way to Yangshuo! I mostly biked
actually because well I'm Dutch and that's what I like to do! mmm....
But yeah it's really pretty there. Yeah so this area is really famous and if you
know anything about the currency here it's on the 20 yuan note. Yeah and so many
people go there and they like to hold up the note and show the mountains while
they're holding the note. Its very popular many people travel there every
year and it's one of like the top usually in the top 5 of just about any
list of places to visit here in China. So, it's number 4 in ours because
one of us is actually been there. So moving on to number 3 is Zhangjiajie,
which is also a really cool kind of nature and kind of outdoor activity
these are actually known as the Avatar Mountains and we went there about, what
three years ago and obviously we don't have a lot of good footage of that time
because we weren't really thinking about doing videos but as you can see in the
footage there's actually these beautiful mountains and there's also one of the
first glass bridges, which became kind of a popular thing about three years ago!
We actually did a video about one near Beijing you can check that out if you're
interested. So, you can go out there you can walk through the park because
it's it's a massive park actually and so there's an area where there's just like
the mountains that you can see that are like standing in the kind of like
standing up there kind of just like pillars in a way... They're a little
similar maybe to the ones in Yangshuo, but a lot taller and less green? and yeah I
mean if you've seen avatar you'll get an idea of what those actually kind of look
like and its really beautiful. It's one of the best places that we've been
obviously we put it number three on our list and even though the area is not
super developed it is still a really nice place to visit to see the natural
beauty of China and that's one of the things that people don't realize China's
such a large country that there's literally deserts and mountains and
rainforest and islands and like everything everything that you could
want! I mean everybody thinks like Oh Shanghai Beijing Guangzhou area
or Hong Kong, but it's really if you get out into the nature of China; there's
some beautiful places and so that's why it's number three on our list because
even though it was crowded! (mmm May Holiday) yeah it's just anyway you go during
Chinese holidays, just anywhere you go in China there's a lot of people. I'm sure
you guys know this.. (especially during holidays) So be aware of that if you can
go in a non peak time or a non kind of like holiday time... (that would be better)
and also if you do go during holiday season like or during a holiday like we
did with Zhangjiajie. Go a little further, go off the path that
is given to you like turn right because on our first day we took a different
route and there was barely anybody there. Yeah well there's actually like walking
trails too. So when you go down into like the actual like kind of the base of the
mountains you can walk through the valley and like like the base of the
mountains and do like nature hikes and that's actually much cooler than trying
to be up at the top because up at the top there's just a ton of people.
And even though it's beautiful and you obviously have to go up and see it
to get the best experience would be the kind of wonder off and just
kind of again like I said it's a major park there's a lot of things you can do
there and most people only come to the top. They take the elevator there's this
glass elevator thing, one of the tallest elevators here in China or something
like that.... Again one of these attractions "tallest elevator" "biggest biggest glass bridge"
yada yada yada uh-huh... So they take the elevator up and then
they walk out they take a bunch of pictures and then they kind of go back
down. But if you get away from that there's a lot of cool hiking kind of
areas and the paths.. Like I said just get away from the crowds and then you'll find it's real beauty.
And then yeah you don't get squeezed alright! Alright! So moving on to number
two on our list of the best places that we've been so far in China! Yes! and again it's one I
haven't been to so I will let Yvon explain it and tell you what it is! I was lucky to
go here last summer for a project! I did a documentary and I was able to go to
Xinjiang. I traveled a part of the Silk Road. So from Beijing we took a train to
Xi'am and there we started to go up to the north and to the west all the way to
Urumqi in Xinjiang and I can't even describe how amazing this trip was I'm
still editing all the videos. I'm almost at the end of the series but again China
is so diverse and on that trip I literally saw all kinds of landscapes
like I saw the rainbow mountains, grasslands with like bright green grass
and then and the horizon mountains with snow on the top! (You were even in a desert)
Yeah I saw the desert! I was about to say that I saw the desert and then Urumqi, the
city, the capital city! I saw the bazaar there! So a lot of history...
Very interesting! Yes and also very yellow fields! Yeah, it was a whole different
world. So it was such an amazing trip like and I got to spend some time with
a Kazakh like family in their yurt, which was so unique like they were talking
about their life there and (trying the food) yeah
trying their local food, like chatting with the father, playing with the
daughters! Yeah just really amazing! So if you guys actually want to see what she's
talking about if you go over to GoYvon, she actually has been
editing this series of videos and she's getting to the end of it like she said
and they're actually really good. She went with an actual film crew and
she was able to get some of their footage. So there's drone shots and
there's a lot of really nice shots, really good B-roll and it's really worth checking out, its really
high quality stuff because again she had a whole crew. She had two cameramen and a
director who was helping with everything. So there was four of them on the trip
and we did a road trip all the way from Zhangye all the way to Urumqi, which was
like yeah and so they had like a car and they could stop if they saw something
cool take good shots and like she said the rainbow mountain footage was really
cool just everything really cool. Yeah, there was like yaks on the road and we had to zigzag around
yeah and like horses everywhere in cows, so it was a really amazing trip I
would love to go back. yeah maybe well because I haven't been in again
like I said she's gets more time off and more opportunities to travel. So this is
why she been more places than me, but that brings us to our number one! "one"
and you may not agree with this but number one on our list is Beijing!
And we'll explain why! Why? No we'll explain why! So one of the things about Beijing
is it is literally the culture epicenter, kind of, of China! I mean you have the
Forbidden City, you have the Summer Palace, you have the
Temple of Heaven, you have the Great Wall, you have a lot of museums "the National
Museum", you have Tiananmen Square, you have all these really kind of iconic Chinese
landmarks. Yeah! You have the hutongs and then you have some modern stuff like the
798 art district and the Nanluoguxiang hutong, which has been redone, which is
kind of cool area. Bit touristy, but gives you kind of this kind of modern feel
with all the little vendors and shops and bars and stuff and so Beijing is...
It has a lot to offer Beijing yeah even when like you were mentioning the
Great Wall but there's also a lot of like nature
like if you drive for one or two hours like it's still considered Beijing
technically, you're in nature like I've done some really nice hikes through the
three rivers and through mountains. So it has a lot to offer!
Yeah and so I mean I think just from a standpoint of yeah; it's got great food
if you think about picking duck, you got lots of different food you have a lot of
different culture. You got a lot of different things that just kind of combines
everything that is China can be found here in Beijing and so if there was only
one place you could go and this is kind of the way we're ranking it if there's
only one place you could go in China where should you go Beijing like cuz
you'll get what you'll get the China feel you'll get everything from the
modern busy business district down in Guomao to historical sites...
and experiences local food. I mean from the founding of the People's Republic of
China, I mean it happened here in Beijing when Mao was up on the rostrum and
he said we're a country. I don't know what he said, I'm assuming he said we're
country. Is this another reenactment? This is a reenactment: "We are a country! Welcome to
the People's Republic". I don't know I shouldn't say that, I'll get in trouble for
putting words in Mao's mouth, that sounds weird putting words in Mao's mouth.
Anyways, we will cut this part out... but anyways Beijing is definitely a very iconic place, city, yeah if you had one
opportunity to come China you could only go to one place this is, why we put it at
number one Beijing is amazing! Leave a comment below! What is your top 5?
Go ahead and put your top 5 in a list and then we can see if it's similar
maybe there's places that we haven't been that you have been that you you
could suggest us and say go here your top 5 will change. Yeah I have a few in
mine that I would still like to go, we still want to go, we just haven't gotten around to it. We haven't even been to
Shenzhen, which would be cool. I want to go to Jiuzhaigou, yeah Jiuzhaigou, Tibet...
Harbin for the ice festival... we still have a long list. There's a long long list but so far
these are the top five that we think because these are the places that one of
us are both of us have been... Yeah so leave a comment below let us know your
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So, we needed to answer the question from the community post and the community post
was question: How long do you think we have been married? Yeah, so the majority of the
people said like four years, most of the people said "What you're married?" oh
Yea, but she is taller than you are, (He is so short!)
yeah but that was the joke and many of you got it.
so thanks for hitting that one, that makes us laugh! When we put in a little joke and you
guys get it. Yeah, we have been married for three. So yes we've been married for
three years and you're still going strong! Yes and so our anniversary will
be yesterday by the time you see this... Wait, is it today?
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