"Every grassland is covered with tents during weekends," says 26-year-old glamping enthusiast Yoga Song.Over the past year, Song says she has taken more than 10 glamping trips in China, to both rural regions and city suburbs.
But it didn't go smoothly. The weather was very windy in Zhongwei, sending sand and gravel flying. As a result, all the tourist spots were closed. Xiaohongshu, the country's foremost lifestyle website, is a major hidden hand driving the vacation fad as chic camping-inspired posts flood into mobile feeds.lists -- a buzzword that describes internet users"clocking in" at Instagrammable places.
The site, on the island of Cheung Chau, offers various accommodation options, from tepees to Mongolian gers, but the most exclusive is the Sunset Vista, a 300-square-foot domed tent set in its own 2,000 square feet space with private grassland. Cheung says the type of visitors they receive has evolved since the start of the pandemic. Before, visitors loved camping, hiking and nature, and would be impressed by the air conditioners in the tents. Now, guests consider AC a must.
The initial outbreak in 2020 sealed China's borders, keeping Chinese tourists at home. Recent Covid-19 outbreaks are estimated to have cut domestic travel by more than half, and people are spending holidays even closer to home, as the potential consequences of travel have evolved from getting locked out of China to getting locked out of one's home city.
Are those balls how they get around post Covid?
Except they're not, because it's all staged and the people are actually in a constant state of lockdown. Not to mention the issues going on elsewhere in China.
Meanwhile Uyghurs are raped by CCP creeps and give up their organs to rich buyers