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First-hand China and Taiwan travel plus the cross-strait logistics nobody explains well: visa-free transit, the Great Firewall VPN reality, eSIMs and SIMs, and Alipay / WeChat for foreigners.
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China Travel
Mainland China trips told first-hand — cities, regions, itineraries, and the on-the-ground realities a Western passport holder needs.
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Taiwan travel from a Taipei base — itineraries, food trails, day trips, and what makes Taiwan different from the mainland.
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Visa-free transit, the Great Firewall VPN reality, eSIM and SIM, Alipay / WeChat for foreigners, cross-strait routing.
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Reusable how-tos for an Asia trip — packing, payments, connectivity, apps, and the small things that trip up first-time visitors.
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Asia Travel covers travelling across Asia — visa-free transit windows, getting a VPN and eSIM that actually work, paying with Alipay and WeChat as a foreigner, and route logistics city to city. Each guide comes from trips taken first-hand, not aggregated from other blogs.
These are first-hand notes from someone living in the region, and rules — visa-free terms, payment access, VPN reliability — change. Always confirm the latest details with official sources before you travel.
Open the guide closest to the leg you're planning — entry, connectivity, payments, the Taipei↔Shanghai route — and use it as the on-the-ground briefing a friend who's done it would give you.
