Beijing, China
WE LOVE CHINA! Why?
Maybe because of it was just so much better than we'd expected. Seriously. Other backpackers we'd met travelling up through SE Asia were so negative about it, the few who we met. The general concensus was that China is dirty (it's not), difficult (it's not), expensive (it's not) and lonely (definitely not!).
We've found it probably one of our favourite places so far! People speak less English than elsewhere, true, but you can get by easily e...