All posts by Ben Noon

TEFL teacher and proud president of ChinaTEFLer.com.

The capital!

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Travel cost; 800-3000RMB return flight/ 400-800RMB sleeper train (If available) Accommodation; 70RMB/night (hostel) Daily budget; 250RMB It took me 10 months since first arriving in china to finally make it to the national capital thats Beijing. My September flight was expensive (1800RMB each way!) but after all the reading up I had done and study from learning Chinese I felt I knew exactly what to do and where to go for the five days I was there. In my opinion I think that there are 5 things in Beijing that you really need to see. This is what I did.…

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Guilin to Yangshuo

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Travel cost; 800-3000RMB return flight/ 370-800RMB sleeper train (If available) Accommodation; 50-80RMB/night (hostel) Daily budget; 200RMB Guilin, known by many Brits for it being ‘the place where that Chinaman uses that bird to catch a fish’ is some of the finest, stunning scenery that I have ever seen in my life. Guilin is actually a fairly large city in Guanxi, a province neighbouring my home province of Guizhou. From Guiyang, it is just a sleeper train ride away, and in summer 2013 I and my friends went on a weekend break there to remember. Guiyang to Guilin 12 hour sleeper…

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Simply Shanghai. Teach at the center of the new world

Teaching English in China

  Shanghai, one of the largest, most famous, well known cities in not just China, not just Asia, but the entire world. Famous for its past ties with the west and an outright modern economic epicenter of trade. That all sounds well and good, but what’s it like to teach English here? What’s it like? Shanghai is one of the most popular places to teach English  as a foreign language in the entire world. Its Western features and highly modernized, well maintained city streets make it a great place to start your teaching odyssey; slowly integrating your Western mindset, rather than…

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