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[quote=JABAROOTOO,335481]Dear GUEST34181 You may very well have been driving every day in Beijing which I consider to be a piece of cake compared to some other cities that many of us live in. Beijing has the luxury of a well laid out road system, albeit small and cramped in the old city but wide open as you head out of town. I love to get out of Chongqing and drive in the country where the roads are narrow and windy and pass through farms and villages but every time I drive back into the towns of cities the condition of many of the roads deteriorates and there is little or no signage of what's coming up next. Whether in the city or the country, at least here in southwest China, it could be a crater a meter deep or a barrage of rocks across the road or a truck rolled over spilling a load of bricks, a land slide blocking most of the way or folks letting of firecrackers at a funeral, grain drying on the roadway or five year old kids playing cards in the middle of the road. SO for a first time visitor to China desiring to DRIVE across the country apart from all the above items and so many more the first major obstacle is the Licence, the second is hiring a car and leaving it at the other end of China the third is not being able read signs and even when you have some with pinyin or even English they can be confusing fourthly maps/road atlas while they are good are generally only in Chinese for the most part and reading is not easy and last but not least is not being able ask for directions and even if you can ask, perhaps not being able to fully understand the directions. I know people who have been scared to cross the street in China so getting behind the wheel of a car could be a nightmare for some especially when they see some of the local antics in action for the first time. Like you, I would love to drive across China one day and hope to be able to do at least one long road trip here in the future. It is the most pleasant way to see the country BUT China is a huge country..............................................unlike the UK.[/quote]
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