We had a private tailor-made trip of 16 days in China with Travel China Guide. Most loved stop has been the city of Xian. Our guide Susan with her 15 years’ experience and passion about Xian and Chinese culture helped us enjoying so much our stage there, that we will surely come back to Xian in future. Visiting the terracotta army during summer Chinese holydays was surely a challenge due to the incredible crowd and human heat. Susan helped us relish the amazing experience, and took lots of amazing photos of us with her phone. Xian was incredible, but it was really a wonderful trip overall! To specially also appreciate the invaluable help of our China Guide consultant Emily, thanks to her and the WeChat app we were accompanied and assisted at every single moment of the 16 days trip. >>>>>APP RECCOMENDATIONS for foreign travelers in China: - Download to work offline Google Translator (good to translate in Chinese and give people text to read) - Download to work offline Microsoft Translator (good to make picture and translate menus) - Download to work offline Maps.me (good to move around, because google maps is useless in China) - Install WeChat and add immediately all telephone numbers you will need during your trip. If you use a VPN it will block your account to add new contacts, but it will still let you chat with already linked contacts. - Use WeTransfer.com to ask people to send you files (i.e. photos taken of you), google drive, dropbox and all the rest do not work in China. - Install Airalo app and buy an eSim card (very cheap) to have mobile data with integrated VPN [you can use google and all western apps!!]. Good to stay always in contact with Emily 😊. - ExpressVPN and NordVPN did not worked for me in China. I downloaded before the trip and attempted everything to make them work in China, no way. Without a VPN you can not use: whatsapp, skype, google maps, gmail, google search, google drives, ... and many more. >>The Airalo eSim REALLY SAVED US to stay in contact with home.