The China they don't want you to see! If you enjoyed the video, please smash that thumbs up button as it does help the channel get out there. Have you been to any natural wonders? Where and what was it like?
@@robinrahul2176 You're likely trolling and insinuating that Oli works for the CPC, but I'll go along. And what exactly would that be that the CPC does not what the Chinese people to see of the west?
@@Psalm118.26 Why do u think i am trolling or insinuating anything?? Just like the west as he think blocking China natural beauty to be seen around the world why don't he make a video on ''the west that CPC don't want Chinese people to see''.......I am just asking him to make one such video.....why r u so bothered by my simple request.....
@@robinrahul2176 I live in SEAsia. What is wrong with you ??? Make a trip to China , then you'll know & understand what are the things that your government & media don't want you to see. Really , you don't know what you're missing. What a sad mind you have.
@@robinrahul2176 I understand your question but it doesn't really make sense in the vise versa why of " China that the west does not want their ppl to see". And the reason is simple, from almost a hundred years ago, we v learned a lot of things from the west and Japan in the east. And we v got dozens of millions of ppl aboard which including the immigrated ones. So, if the government truly wants to hide something about the west, its just won't work pretty well.
when i first went to China i found getting a visa easy. This might have been because i was going to Macau to get married (no visa needed for Macau) and then going to visit my new in laws in Guangzhou. I would like to get more people from the uk to visit China so they can see it is not like the msm in the west says it is. It is a great country with such friendly people it will amaze uk citizens
Right, China has a lot to offer and people can learn a lot about the world by visiting here. I'd love to see a government campaign to get more tourists here.
many UK citizens were brainwashed by British Bullshit Center (BBC) news, it often reports China with bias or distortion deliberately, this is why. (BBC is very good at its program in science and technology)
This is just the begining of the silk road from Lanchou. Go further westwards and you can see many many more exoctic landscapes, blue, green lakes. All of these still untouch by humans except a few local peasants.
Actually getting a visa is never a problem, especially if you are planning to visit another country in Asia. The free transit visa is a great choice which allows you to stay in the country between 3 to 6 days.
Only just realized China has banned youtube in China so the uploader of this youtube video is technically a criminal in China. As TH-cam is banned in CHina and not available for the everyday ordinary Chinese citizens who dont have the special privileges of their rulers, who do we think this video is aimed at?
@@JC-zv3cv not really, inside our “wall” we got our own version of TH-cam like bilibili and AcFun etc. you can find so many travel vlogger there too, so honestly speaking we don’t really need TH-cam, I believe Barret is just trying to show you guys what China is really like, how different it is compare to that horrid image western media portrait
China has got all kinds of landscapes, national wonders, cultural heritage sites and new tourist theme parks, so if any country not welcoming Chinese tourists, we can just spend our holidays in China. You have a lot of interests to choose from, one would not get bored easily simply touring in China the whole life.
that's what I told my wife. Why go Iceland, China has glaciers too. Sakura? China has it. Snow capped mountains, pristine rivers and lakes, big open vast plains, China has it all. China is all I need. haha.
@@icewingdragon3297 are you sure about that. So you are saying it is legal for a private person living in China to cross the firewall without consent from the CCP
I came to this place 3 years ago with my boyfriend. It is so beautiful! we climbed hard to get to the summit to see the sunset, marvellous! later there were so many stars in the sky, it was so romantic!! we also saw the small firework, singing songs. it is unforgettable.
@@november9700 What for? The disingenuous ccp directly enabled the ccp virus to spread worldwide, by keeping international travel operational even though they'd stopped internal travel. They even called countries that enacted a travel ban from China racist, even though THEY KNEW it was the right thing to do. It's only correct that the virus they made and spread is named after them. So no, no shame on me, shame on the lying ccp.
@@sunnyraining7346 hahaha, i'v been here many, many times, i organize road trips with western people form Xian to Kashgar to show them China, few western people are normal 🤗
I have been there weeks ago with my family and did exactly what you did. Fantastic scenery! I was also amazed by the Mogao Grottoes, an ancient heritage near the Crescent Lake. Just wonder how ancient people survived in such a tough environment and still were able to create such art works!
I have been there 30 years ago, the lake was still naturally filled with water, but after that water level got lower and lower, so the local government has to fill it with under ground water to save it, hundreds years ago it was much larger.
I've been there in 2017. I remember the ticket is valid for 3 days. When we left the first day, at the exit we scanned our faces, then the coming two days, we could get in without the ticket.
Scanned your faces? In 2017 ? I was believing this was a natural place until this statement. Good for tourism though. Still don't want to visit China. Maybe Africa or south America.
There are so many places I want to go to in China. My list is growing longer and longer year by year but I need to win a lotto ticket. Or else I have to work till I retire first.😅
Great video, thank you for bringing us all these amazing impressions, landscapes and wonders of China. Now, some of the Western media outlets are putting that propaganda out how bad China is. You are helping to set the record straight, it is a beautiful country. They are not trying to dominate the rest of the world, their own domestic market has so much potential, they don't need to do that. With all the progress they have made, China is still only having 61st place in the world GDP listing. That means China still has an enormous growth potential for many, many years. Then all the countries benefitting from China's BRI initiative will become increasing consumers of Chinese goods and services. I think China has a phantastic future ahead and the rest of the world will benefit from that too.
Excellent, points Axel - in fact "phantastic" points. \a few things, the belt & road initiative is already dead in the water, turns out giving money as incentives to corrupt pacific & african countries tends to result in it being stolen. It also seems that getting countries on board the B&R and then banning those countries imports doesn't seem to entice people to support the B&R. Also..when you say the chinese domestic market has so much potential..you are aware that China is incapable of feeding itself or self sufficiency, right, no raw mineral resources required for infrastructure, not able to produce enough food to sustain its own population and the fastest rate of desertification in the world. Also, Axel..i didnt see the wonders & impressions of the Uighur concentration camps .
@@JC-zv3cv OK JC will you please stop this nonsense about so called "Uighur concentration camps" the Uighurs are far better off under Chinese stewardship. As a matter of fact the Uighur population has gone from 500,000 to 1.5 million over the last 30 years. Life expectancy has doubled from the mid 30s to 70+ years of age. Fastest rate of desetification ??? What the heck are you talking about? China has the highest rate of re-forrestation and greening of deserts in the world. China not able to feed itself??? From which fake Western media are you getting your false information??? Chinese scientists have now developed a strain of rice that can even grow in slaine coastal waters. I think it is very irresponsible to spread those incorrect points of view.
Dunhuang is a fascinating oasis town, with all the Buddhist art work, the flying genies, the camels. Climbing deep into the sand dunes there is like being in the Sahara. The highest might be about 300m? And yes, China does has an amazing spectrum of landscapes on offer. Only the Americas could match it as far as variety is concerned. For this reason alone it's worth visiting China.
close but not really, the US has NO high-tech cities, only run-down ones. The US has MANY fertile lands (only slightly behind Ukraine and Brazil) while China on average does not. Even in the South of China, a lot of the places have yellow soil which contained very little nutrients while in the US, even a small puddle that was formed by the side of a barn due to water drainage can support a school of sunfish!
I’m sure you’ve been to the Great Wall in Beijing, but not sure if you ever stayed overnight there up watching sunset and sunrise. It was one of the most amazing experience I had with my wife and a group of others, whom we went and join a guide who brought us there camping and walking thru the off touristic tracks and village for meals. We will never forget that once in a lifetime experience.
I was at Dun Huang on 2019. Love the amazing sand dunes and crescent moon Lake view and the Mogao Caves Grotto. Was on my silk road trip traveling into Tsing Hai and all the way to Xinjiang. Along the journey the landscape and weather changes from one site to another. Never thought it was such a good experience.
What can we say oli, this place just different from what we always see from China. Anyway, I’d like to be the first to say congratulations in advance for the approaching 300k subscribers to your channel ! JIAYOU!
@@Fabsurf101 Did you not know? The ccp uses idiots like them to put forth sophistry. It really shows how duplicitous they are. If you have an intelligent counter argument, I'd love to hear it. If you're just going to ignore what I wrote and write a childish insult, that makes my position stronger, as you're not able to debunk me. Taiwan is a country. Boycott the genocide games 2022. jinping is an insane dictator.
Just love you for doing this and embrace China so much! I'm 50 years now (Chinese, born in Holland) and I'm afraid I can't see all of amazing places in China in this life time. But I'm definitely inspired by you and enjoy you young people love China so much. Much appreciated Barrett!!
? how can you be chinese if you were born in Holland, or as its actually known, the Netherlands? Do you have a chinese passport or a Netherlands passport?do you have chinese birth certificate or a Netherlands certificate? Are you dutch because you were born in The Netherlands or chinese because your ancestors were born in a different country?
Oli, you’re a wonderful person and I always look forward to your and Lee’s videos. Personally, I’d move to China tomorrow if I had the money and could figure out how to do it🌟 That’s a beautiful natural wonder. Your arms must be super strong to be continually holding the camera up in front of you !!! Love & Light from NYC. ☮️💚💕🌻💕💚🌟🌟🌟
By the way, Gansu is one of the best places to eat fruits in China。By the way, Gansu is one of the best places to eat fruits in China. The Muslim barbecue there is also the favorite delicacy of the Chinese. Famous scenic spots along the way include Ta'er Temple, Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake, Emerald Lake, Qinghai Yadan Landform, Mogao Grottoes, Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring, Jiayuguan Great Wall, Zhangye Colorful Danxia, Menyuan Ten Thousand Mu of Rape Flower。The Jiayuguan Great Wall is the westernmost pass of the Great Wall. Historically, it was called the Hexi Throat. Due to the difficult terrain and the majestic buildings, it is known as the key to the chain. Jiayuguan is a transportation fortress on the ancient "Silk Road" and one of the three great wonders of the Great Wall of China。
You are so fortunate to be in the vast country of China and to have the opportunity to travel in it to see and experience life there, in all its different places.
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖BARRETT, this is my first time, came across your beautiful and breathtaking footage of this gorgeous place in china, IT REALLY GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS, Each time I come across westerners. especially you guys from the UK, Promoting the beauty of CHINA AND ITS CULTURE, LOVE IT THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING AND SHARING WITH THE WORLD ABOUT CHINA, I LOVE CHINA, MY REAL HOME, !!! CChris Sydney AUSTRALIA!
Good one Oli, glad to see youre getting around, a lot. I bet you couldnt imagine how interesting China could be 5 years ago, when your dad and I were knocking around Guangzhou.
Thank you bro for introducing this part of China....I've not been here before....but now I might adding this Giansu into my list....once again thanks....👍👍👍👍
As you mentioned, most places are already packed or even at full capacity without foreign tourists. Therefore attracting more foreigners is not their top priority.
Never occurred to me that you can have a tourist destination in a desert. Doubtful you can make such a destination viable in other countries. But in China some locations are linked to historical events or mentioned in historical records and that make the location mystical and arouse interests. Throw in some peoms by famous scholars of the past and you will have a crowd.
LOL quite right on the poems by famous scholars and poets bit. The benefit of an unbroken civilizational culture where poems written more than a thousand years ago are still easily recited by 21st century ordinary folks, with settings that still stand to this day.
Amazing! I look forward to visiting once travelling resume. Thanks for showing so many interesting regions of China to explore. Gosh, I've so many plans.
The tragedy that was the fall of Yugoslavia is increasingly studied by young Chinese, who view it as a dire warning of what can happen when you allow US-led Imperialist narratives to brainwash an entire nation and turn neighbours and close friends into sworn enemies.
Correct. And given how the West is not allowing anyone in unless they have taken the Pfizer, Aztrazenca etc, I am waiting for those countries to lose all that tourism dollars
@biospheres A total of 154+ million outbound trips were made by Chinese tourists in 2019. The contribution of Chinese travelers in global tourism ranked first in the world. In 2019, Chinese tourists spent about 254.6 billion U.S. dollars while traveling abroad
Simply amazing! Gansu, China can be another wonders of the world! Seems like a desert, soft, fine sand upon your feet. What a lovely museum too! Yet, what fascinates me most is right at the TOP, it seems to me, like a beach! Indeed fascinating!
Thousands of years ago, the Persians and Arabs passed this area on their way to China to buy silk and back to middle East to sell silk to the Europeans. Then ltalian Marco Polo came and broke the Arab and Persian monopoly by the sea route. He oso brought noodle ( in ltaly itz call spaghetti ), designs for pagoda and paper money back to Europe. How cool is that?
@@DanishTroll87 Camel caravans ... they travel in groups for safety against bandits. In the old days, the Arabs depended on the sun and stars for guidance. They are so familiar with the seasons and locations they even know where the oasis for drinking water are as the business was passed from one generation to another. They mozly bought silk from the Chinese, travel back to middle East and sell them at a high price to Europeans. Thatz why itz call "The Silk Road". They kept the trade route secret to maintain monopoly until the Europeans had to find China by sea which eventually they did. To reach China the Arabs had to pass this oasis. They then replenish their water supply and continue their journey to China. Repeat the same thing on their way back to middle East. In the Tang Dynasty, a military outpost was established here to maintain security from bandits. In the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian king Genghis Khan took it a few steps further ... a police station every 100 kilometres with postal and courier services from Changan ( now Beijing ) all the way to Europe. This was a way to update his army and empire conquering Europe all the way until Florence, ltaly.
There are also snow mountains in the North and Mount Qomolangma in the west part of China，there are lots of beautiful landscape in the Tibet and Xinjiang Province.
Wow... another amazing and magical place in China. I also heard that Lanzhou noodle in Gansu is very popular too.. However, your video are getting better and better each time Oli. Please keep up the good work and thanks for sharing this amazing place for us.
It'd be so awesome if they put some camels by the lake to give tourists rides. That'll add to the whole experience of the Gobi desert . And support the wild life at the same time.
I am amazed by such a natural creation here. Thank you for showing us such a beautiful place. To answer your question in your video, yes, what you said is true. Number 1 challenge is the language barrier. I don't speak Mandarin at all, and for me to go to China, it can only happens when I go into a tour where there is an English speaking tour guide. I would love to tour China as she has so many different & beautiful places to see. On top of that, different foods & culture at different parts of China. If people can leave the politics out & truly appreciate the true beauty of China itself......
I love China, I am glad I had the opportunity to visit it! But you are right, not easy to get there and less tourist friendly compared to Thailand. I was for about 3 weeks and visited mainly popular tourist areas- Beijing, Shanghai, Yangshuo ( my favourite) , Sian (second favourite), and a few more but if I go there again, I would love to see more of the rural side of the country and less popular areas. Nature is fantastic.
Haha, I always thought that this lake is somewhere crazy in the middle of the desert... but it's actually really close to the next city, just behind a single large dune! Easier to get to than I thought!
Yeah! The BBC journalists didn't go anywhere beautiful. They kept trying to investigate the genocide, flooding, slave labour and forced organ harvesting. Why show that when there are sand dunes to see?
青海长云暗雪山，孤城遥望玉门关。 黄沙百战穿金甲，不破楼兰终不还。 The Qinghai Lake is densely covered with dark clouds, and the rolling snow-capped mountains are dim. The ancient city of frontier fortress, Yumen Xiongguan, thousands of miles away, facing each other. Guardsmen, who have gone through hundreds of battles, their armors are worn through, and their lofty ambitions are immortal. They will not defeat the invading enemy and vowed not to return to their hometown. The Seven Poems of Gu Congjun Xing is one of the seven poems by Wang Changling (698-757), the great frontier fortress poet in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, "Huangsha wears golden armor in a hundred battles, does not break Loulan and will not return" is a masterpiece. The famous sentence in the fortress shows the spirit of the frontier soldiers to swear to kill the enemy.
Wow...As an artist I really like to visit different places in the world including China. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video...♥️ stay safe and God bless you ❤️
Just like you mentioned, Chinese economy actually doesn't rely on the tourism. So they didn't do a lot of things to attract foreign people and didn't prepare for that. But I believe China will be more and more open in the future.
This is the Mingsha Shan Park, Dunhuang. I was there several years ago. This was part of my Silk Road trip beginning in Lanzhou to Xining, then to Qinghai Lake and then Dunhuang, which is at the edge of the Gobi Desert. Interesting place but can be very crowded with tourists.
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The China they don't want you to see!
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Have you been to any natural wonders? Where and what was it like?
Please make a video on the west that CCP don't want Chinese people to see.......it will be interesting...
@@robinrahul2176 You're likely trolling and insinuating that Oli works for the CPC, but I'll go along. And what exactly would that be that the CPC does not what the Chinese people to see of the west?
@@Psalm118.26 Why do u think i am trolling or insinuating anything?? Just like the west as he think blocking China natural beauty to be seen around the world why don't he make a video on ''the west that CPC don't want Chinese people to see''.......I am just asking him to make one such video.....why r u so bothered by my simple request.....
@@robinrahul2176 I live in SEAsia. What is wrong with you ??? Make a trip to China , then you'll know & understand what are the things that your government & media don't want you to see. Really , you don't know what you're missing. What a sad mind you have.
@@robinrahul2176 I understand your question but it doesn't really make sense in the vise versa why of " China that the west does not want their ppl to see". And the reason is simple, from almost a hundred years ago, we v learned a lot of things from the west and Japan in the east. And we v got dozens of millions of ppl aboard which including the immigrated ones. So, if the government truly wants to hide something about the west, its just won't work pretty well.
when i first went to China i found getting a visa easy. This might have been because i was going to Macau to get married (no visa needed for Macau) and then going to visit my new in laws in Guangzhou. I would like to get more people from the uk to visit China so they can see it is not like the msm in the west says it is. It is a great country with such friendly people it will amaze uk citizens
Right, China has a lot to offer and people can learn a lot about the world by visiting here. I'd love to see a government campaign to get more tourists here.
many UK citizens were brainwashed by British Bullshit Center (BBC) news, it often reports China with bias or distortion deliberately, this is why. (BBC is very good at its program in science and technology)
@@BarrettYT ,Congratulations just a small step to reach 300,000 mark, an excellent video as always.
This is just the begining of the silk road from Lanchou. Go further westwards and you can see many many more exoctic landscapes, blue, green lakes. All of these still untouch by humans except a few local peasants.
Actually getting a visa is never a problem, especially if you are planning to visit another country in Asia. The free transit visa is a great choice which allows you to stay in the country between 3 to 6 days.
Only just realised China has the most natural and cultural world heritage sites, such a beautiful country
Wow
Officially 56 UNESCO world heritage now. Just noticed Italy has 57 now, but Italy has some joint world heritage like Alps.
Only just realized China has banned youtube in China so the uploader of this youtube video is technically a criminal in China.
As TH-cam is banned in CHina and not available for the everyday ordinary Chinese citizens who dont have the special privileges of their rulers, who do we think this video is aimed at?
@@JC-zv3cv um there's Chinese in china using TH-cam, they have vpn ok? Vpn is not banned in china
@@JC-zv3cv not really, inside our “wall” we got our own version of TH-cam like bilibili and AcFun etc. you can find so many travel vlogger there too, so honestly speaking we don’t really need TH-cam, I believe Barret is just trying to show you guys what China is really like, how different it is compare to that horrid image western media portrait
China has got all kinds of landscapes, national wonders, cultural heritage sites and new tourist theme parks, so if any country not welcoming Chinese tourists, we can just spend our holidays in China. You have a lot of interests to choose from, one would not get bored easily simply touring in China the whole life.
Can't agree more with you
that's what I told my wife. Why go Iceland, China has glaciers too. Sakura? China has it. Snow capped mountains, pristine rivers and lakes, big open vast plains, China has it all. China is all I need. haha.
How are you posting this? Aren't VPN's illegal dont you get in trouble posting on TH-cam from China or is it allowed for shills
@@mfanto1 nope not illegal at all idiot. Why don't u try learning some chinese in order to find videos that have more chinese characters in the titles
@@icewingdragon3297 are you sure about that. So you are saying it is legal for a private person living in China to cross the firewall without consent from the CCP
I came to this place 3 years ago with my boyfriend. It is so beautiful! we climbed hard to get to the summit to see the sunset, marvellous! later there were so many stars in the sky, it was so romantic!! we also saw the small firework, singing songs. it is unforgettable.
Obviously you can't go right now, so many places are in lockdown due to the Delta variant of the ccp virus.
Lucky you
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX shame on you
@@november9700 What for? The disingenuous ccp directly enabled the ccp virus to spread worldwide, by keeping international travel operational even though they'd stopped internal travel. They even called countries that enacted a travel ban from China racist, even though THEY KNEW it was the right thing to do.
It's only correct that the virus they made and spread is named after them. So no, no shame on me, shame on the lying ccp.
@@november9700 Why shame on me?
Everyone should visit China at least once in his or her lifetime, the land of beauty, culture, history, and wisdom.
and the foods, mate😄
@@petrichor4753 Yes, the most important attraction!
Please keep it secret and we don't mind to be looked down upon by western people. As long as we are happy for ourselves.
@@sunnyraining7346 hahaha, i'v been here many, many times, i organize road trips with western people form Xian to Kashgar to show them China, few western people are normal 🤗
Land of beautiful in Chinese is mei Kuok (united state) it refer to USA not China... But time is change ...
😂大惊小怪，我老家就是甘肃的，你们可以顺便去张掖，天水那些地方，很多南方人去了都懵逼，那里有最大的湿地群，还能种水稻，就在沙漠旁边重水稻。
塞上江南----天水
@Oa'yu Lyaye 我老家的亲戚说现在那些地方都被南方人占领了😂，湿地旁边停满了房车，不知道近几年为啥这么多人选择买房车
@@bearcd5313 应该工业基础完善，那些车都是国产车，然后找人做装修，而且价格其实不贵，20-30万之间
不望祁连山顶雪，错吧张掖当江南
相比其他中西部省份甘肃还是穷啊！自然条件的局限，甘肃迈向富裕的征战是硬骨头。
I was there 3 years ago, absolutely gorgeous & amazing scenery & mind boggling too, a lake in the middle of a desert!
That's the best way to put it.
The University Of Life.
That is priceless.
from 🇲🇾Malaysia🙋♀️, Thank you for sharing
I have been there weeks ago with my family and did exactly what you did. Fantastic scenery! I was also amazed by the Mogao Grottoes, an ancient heritage near the Crescent Lake. Just wonder how ancient people survived in such a tough environment and still were able to create such art works!
你真厲害,中國這個這麼美的地方你也知道,我是去過一次的,對這個地方的印象來自於中國的一款遊戲,幽城幻劍錄,這是一個古老的沙漠綠洲,成型至少上千年的歷史了.
既然你已經到了這裡,周邊的莫高窟一定要去看看喔.
还是大师你比较厉害，张天师哈哈哈，小时候很爱看，太极张三丰
This is superb. Such beautiful natural phenomenon
Thanks Terry
Unlike the ccp virus, which isn't natural at all. Rather, made in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
拍摄的真不错，支持！
I have been there 30 years ago, the lake was still naturally filled with water, but after that water level got lower and lower, so the local government has to fill it with under ground water to save it, hundreds years ago it was much larger.
I've been there in 2017. I remember the ticket is valid for 3 days. When we left the first day, at the exit we scanned our faces, then the coming two days, we could get in without the ticket.
Scanned your faces? In 2017 ? I was believing this was a natural place until this statement. Good for tourism though. Still don't want to visit China. Maybe Africa or south America.
@@PunditKING Tja, the entrance was quite a distance to the view point. whatever.
There are so many places I want to go to in China. My list is growing longer and longer year by year but I need to win a lotto ticket. Or else I have to work till I retire first.😅
Don't wait for the lotto tickets . Just do it before you getting old.
🤣😂🤣
Ikr. That this rate, I might need to move there. 🤣
come to 🇨🇳 and find a interesting job to do.
Only a true Chinese puppet can say that....thank you 😂🤣😂
Great video, thank you for bringing us all these amazing impressions, landscapes and wonders of China.
Now, some of the Western media outlets are putting that propaganda out how bad China is. You are
helping to set the record straight, it is a beautiful country. They are not trying to dominate the rest of
the world, their own domestic market has so much potential, they don't need to do that. With all the
progress they have made, China is still only having 61st place in the world GDP listing. That means
China still has an enormous growth potential for many, many years. Then all the countries benefitting
from China's BRI initiative will become increasing consumers of Chinese goods and services. I think
China has a phantastic future ahead and the rest of the world will benefit from that too.
Excellent, points Axel - in fact "phantastic" points.
\a few things, the belt & road initiative is already dead in the water, turns out giving money as incentives to corrupt pacific & african countries tends to result in it being stolen.
It also seems that getting countries on board the B&R and then banning those countries imports doesn't seem to entice people to support the B&R.
Also..when you say the chinese domestic market has so much potential..you are aware that China is incapable of feeding itself or self sufficiency, right, no raw mineral resources required for infrastructure, not able to produce enough food to sustain its own population and the fastest rate of desertification in the world.
Also, Axel..i didnt see the wonders & impressions of the Uighur concentration camps .
@@JC-zv3cv OK JC will you please stop this nonsense about so called "Uighur concentration camps"
the Uighurs are far better off under Chinese stewardship. As a matter of fact the Uighur
population has gone from 500,000 to 1.5 million over the last 30 years. Life expectancy
has doubled from the mid 30s to 70+ years of age.
Fastest rate of desetification ??? What the heck are you talking about? China has the highest
rate of re-forrestation and greening of deserts in the world. China not able to feed itself???
From which fake Western media are you getting your false information??? Chinese scientists
have now developed a strain of rice that can even grow in slaine coastal waters. I think it is very irresponsible to spread those incorrect points of view.
Well noted points.
@@ericapu6164 Thanks Erica, have a good and productive week.
Agree totally, Mr Schroeder.
Dunhuang is a fascinating oasis town, with all the Buddhist art work, the flying genies, the camels. Climbing deep into the sand dunes there is like being in the Sahara. The highest might be about 300m? And yes, China does has an amazing spectrum of landscapes on offer. Only the Americas could match it as far as variety is concerned. For this reason alone it's worth visiting China.
close but not really, the US has NO high-tech cities, only run-down ones. The US has MANY fertile lands (only slightly behind Ukraine and Brazil) while China on average does not. Even in the South of China, a lot of the places have yellow soil which contained very little nutrients while in the US, even a small puddle that was formed by the side of a barn due to water drainage can support a school of sunfish!
i have lived in the american desert and never have i seen a 300 meter sand dune
如果中國不重視環保的話，月牙泉早就乾枯了，如果中國不治沙的話很多地方都已經沙漠化了，哪來這些美麗景色，
西方攻击中国，说是在破坏自然，沙漠是自然的一部分，属实有点搞笑。
@@韩鹏-r9b 西方大概希望中國全部變成沙漠吧 ，西方整天無中生有的攻擊中國，就怕中國變強大，以小人之心度君子之腹，以為中國跟他們一樣，強大了就會去侵略別國，根本不了解 中華民族五千年文化裡 [兼善天下] 的哲學，中國從來不干涉他國內政，只希望大家和平共處，平安過日而已。
每每看到这种评论 我真… 哎..
中国 治沙真的是百年努力
不能让你这样三言两语的诋毁
中国荒漠化土地面积由上世纪末的年均扩展1.04万平方公里转变为目前的年均缩减2424平方公里，沙化土地面积由上世纪末的年均扩展3436平方公里转变为目前的年均缩减1980平方公里 2000年至2010年，全国土壤侵蚀总体减少12.9%，洪水缓解率和保水率分别提高了12.7%和3.6%。黄土高原的大规模生态恢复工程已将土壤侵蚀减少到历史最低水平。自1950年以来，黄河泥沙负荷下降了近90%。
不然你还是谷歌地图自己看一下 或者打开蚂蚁森林 .. 看看…
有一说一，以前环境确实不重视，但现在很好的。
为了追赶西方，不得已舍弃环境，现在才重视起来。
I’m sure you’ve been to the Great Wall in Beijing, but not sure if you ever stayed overnight there up watching sunset and sunrise. It was one of the most amazing experience I had with my wife and a group of others, whom we went and join a guide who brought us there camping and walking thru the off touristic tracks and village for meals. We will never forget that once in a lifetime experience.
the long wall is not in beijing
Interesting landscape which I wasn't even aware existed.
真的是太美太壮观了，感谢Oli 的分享！
在这么美的沙子上走路好舒服，滑沙很好玩。
THIS IS A MAGICAL SPOT
This is my hometown. Your video makes me cry. Thank you!
I was at Dun Huang on 2019. Love the amazing sand dunes and crescent moon Lake view and the Mogao Caves Grotto. Was on my silk road trip traveling into Tsing Hai and all the way to Xinjiang. Along the journey the landscape and weather changes from one site to another. Never thought it was such a good experience.
Oil, you’re gonna fall in love with Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan and western part of Sichuan since there are so many beauties of Nature there.
Every province in China has very beautiful scenery.
What can we say oli, this place just different from what we always see from China. Anyway, I’d like to be the first to say congratulations in advance for the approaching 300k subscribers to your channel ! JIAYOU!
You have grown indeed to be a happier and more mature person since you have come to China. This dessert is very captivating. Thank you for showing us.
Being paid by the ccp to go and see their highly choreographed shows isn't very stressful.
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX Get a life!
@@Fabsurf101 Did you not know? The ccp uses idiots like them to put forth sophistry. It really shows how duplicitous they are.
If you have an intelligent counter argument, I'd love to hear it. If you're just going to ignore what I wrote and write a childish insult, that makes my position stronger, as you're not able to debunk me.
Taiwan is a country. Boycott the genocide games 2022. jinping is an insane dictator.
Thank you for introduce us such a beautiful place.
Just love you for doing this and embrace China so much! I'm 50 years now (Chinese, born in Holland) and I'm afraid I can't see all of amazing places in China in this life time. But I'm definitely inspired by you and enjoy you young people love China so much. Much appreciated Barrett!!
? how can you be chinese if you were born in Holland, or as its actually known, the Netherlands?
Do you have a chinese passport or a Netherlands passport?do you have chinese birth certificate or a Netherlands certificate? Are you dutch because you were born in The Netherlands or chinese because your ancestors were born in a different country?
@@JC-zv3cv Actually I come from Mars
Oli, you’re a wonderful person and I always look forward to your and Lee’s videos. Personally, I’d move to China tomorrow if I had the money and could figure out how to do it🌟
That’s a beautiful natural wonder. Your arms must be super strong to be continually holding the camera up in front of you !!! Love & Light from NYC.
☮️💚💕🌻💕💚🌟🌟🌟
I can imagine on a clear day it would be an amazing view! Definitely on my list!
By the way, Gansu is one of the best places to eat fruits in China。By the way, Gansu is one of the best places to eat fruits in China.
The Muslim barbecue there is also the favorite delicacy of the Chinese. Famous scenic spots along the way include Ta'er Temple, Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake, Emerald Lake, Qinghai Yadan Landform, Mogao Grottoes, Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring, Jiayuguan Great Wall, Zhangye Colorful Danxia, Menyuan Ten Thousand Mu of Rape Flower。The Jiayuguan Great Wall is the westernmost pass of the Great Wall. Historically, it was called the Hexi Throat. Due to the difficult terrain and the majestic buildings, it is known as the key to the chain. Jiayuguan is a transportation fortress on the ancient "Silk Road" and one of the three great wonders of the Great Wall of China。
@@yanglan9604 That's a mouthful of ancient sites to visit just in one province/State/prefecture!!!!
You are so fortunate to be in the vast country of China and to have the opportunity to travel in it to see and experience life there, in all its different places.
Really amazing scene! Thanks for keeping this up.
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖BARRETT, this is my first time, came across your beautiful and breathtaking footage of this gorgeous place in china, IT REALLY GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS, Each time I come across westerners. especially you guys from the UK, Promoting the beauty of CHINA AND ITS CULTURE, LOVE IT THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING AND SHARING WITH THE WORLD ABOUT CHINA, I LOVE CHINA, MY REAL HOME, !!! CChris Sydney AUSTRALIA!
Thank you for the priceless Gobi Desert tour. Love it. 👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing the video,just love it and your narrative along the way! Thumbs up for you!
Good one Oli, glad to see youre getting around, a lot. I bet you couldnt imagine how interesting China could be 5 years ago, when your dad and I were knocking around Guangzhou.
Thank you bro for introducing this part of China....I've not been here before....but now I might adding this Giansu into my list....once again thanks....👍👍👍👍
As you mentioned, most places are already packed or even at full capacity without foreign tourists. Therefore attracting more foreigners is not their top priority.
Never occurred to me that you can have a tourist destination in a desert. Doubtful you can make such a destination viable in other countries. But in China some locations are linked to historical events or mentioned in historical records and that make the location mystical and arouse interests. Throw in some peoms by famous scholars of the past and you will have a crowd.
LOL quite right on the poems by famous scholars and poets bit. The benefit of an unbroken civilizational culture where poems written more than a thousand years ago are still easily recited by 21st century ordinary folks, with settings that still stand to this day.
las vegas nevada is another tourist destination in the american desert that many asians enjoy
@@daieast6305 that would be those casinos and can can girls, right?
Awesome place Ollie! Thanks for sharing!
Keep going!!!!! Your video is so awesome👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😍😍😍
我十多年前去过鸣沙山月牙泉，现在想起来还好多回忆
Good for you Barrett. Enjoy your stay
希望你们在中国生活的愉快，幸福。
同感👍👍👍👍👍
Love this video and your opinion
谢谢你的分享，非常喜欢你们父子的视频。加油💪🏼
Why don't you ride the horse in inner Mongolia, just like 多多其木格🔥🔥🔥
多多，😂😂😂
Just discover your channel ! Love it ! New subscriber here ;-)
Great episode! Gotta say you guys are getting better n better on your videos. Keep em up!
Thank you for sharing all the amazing places in China. Keep up with your great work.
Every video you did is good! Keep going! I think we enjoy you doing some food tasting and you can introduce more foods in China by the way.
Magnificent
Amazing! I look forward to visiting once travelling resume. Thanks for showing so many interesting regions of China to explore. Gosh, I've so many plans.
It was too hot. Two of our friends’ shoes melted. For future travellers, should carry a spare ones or sandals in your backpack if you can.
"China's got everything you want to see," ah reminds me of the former Yugoslavia when it had beaches.
The tragedy that was the fall of Yugoslavia is increasingly studied by young Chinese, who view it as a dire warning of what can happen when you allow US-led Imperialist narratives to brainwash an entire nation and turn neighbours and close friends into sworn enemies.
Thanks for sharing bro! Will visit sometime definitely
Can’t wait to get there! Thanks Oli 👍💕
It's a must go to!
Gansu is 2379.1 kilometers from Shenzhen。
在中国继续你的旅行吧，你会收获很多，未来你会感激你在这里的这些经历，中国无与伦比！
I believe the statistics say the Chinese are/were ? constituting the largest population in tourism on the planet not just in their country,
Correct. And given how the West is not allowing anyone in unless they have taken the Pfizer, Aztrazenca etc, I am waiting for those countries to lose all that tourism dollars
@@alleygator8538 Me too! It will backfire! Anyway, no interest to visit that country too.
@biospheres
A total of 154+ million outbound trips were made by Chinese tourists in 2019.
The contribution of Chinese travelers in global tourism ranked first in the world. In 2019, Chinese tourists spent about 254.6 billion U.S. dollars while traveling abroad
Simply amazing! Gansu, China can be another wonders of the world! Seems like a desert, soft, fine sand upon your feet. What a lovely museum too! Yet, what fascinates me most is right at the TOP, it seems to me, like a beach! Indeed fascinating!
Thousands of years ago, the Persians and Arabs passed this area on their way to China to buy silk and back to middle East to sell silk to the Europeans. Then ltalian Marco Polo came and broke the Arab and Persian monopoly by the sea route. He oso brought noodle ( in ltaly itz call spaghetti ), designs for pagoda and paper money back to Europe. How cool is that?
How did they pass this area on their way to China, when they needed to pass China to reach this area?
@@DanishTroll87 Camel caravans ... they travel in groups for safety against bandits. In the old days, the Arabs depended on the sun and stars for guidance. They are so familiar with the seasons and locations they even know where the oasis for drinking water are as the business was passed from one generation to another. They mozly bought silk from the Chinese, travel back to middle East and sell them at a high price to Europeans. Thatz why itz call "The Silk Road". They kept the trade route secret to maintain monopoly until the Europeans had to find China by sea which eventually they did. To reach China the Arabs had to pass this oasis. They then replenish their water supply and continue their journey to China. Repeat the same thing on their way back to middle East. In the Tang Dynasty, a military outpost was established here to maintain security from bandits. In the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian king Genghis Khan took it a few steps further ... a police station every 100 kilometres with postal and courier services from Changan ( now Beijing ) all the way to Europe. This was a way to update his army and empire conquering Europe all the way until Florence, ltaly.
@@ftd7435 you clearly did not understand what i said.
Thank you for the great content and happy pride! 😄
中国有太多令人着迷的自然景观啦！
非常漂亮（ very beautiful ) Amazing👍😃 Thanks for the sharing 👋😍
There are also snow mountains in the North and Mount Qomolangma in the west part of China，there are lots of beautiful landscape in the Tibet and Xinjiang Province.
Tibet was even nicer before the pla invaded.
@Kiss First Yeah, so is everywhere that the duplicitous ccp wants to invade.
@Kiss First That's what the country of Taiwan, Tibet, Macau and Hong Kong would wish the hated ccp would do.
Well said Ollie, "University of life". Thank you for show casing beautiful & amazing China for those of us who live far far away.
好美啊！以後有機會一定要去看看
Wow... another amazing and magical place in China. I also heard that Lanzhou noodle in Gansu is very popular too..
However, your video are getting better and better each time Oli. Please keep up the good work and thanks for sharing this amazing place for us.
It'd be so awesome if they put some camels by the lake to give tourists rides. That'll add to the whole experience of the Gobi desert . And support the wild life at the same time.
I am amazed by such a natural creation here.
Thank you for showing us such a beautiful place.
To answer your question in your video, yes, what you said is true.
Number 1 challenge is the language barrier.
I don't speak Mandarin at all, and for me to go to China, it can only happens when I go into a tour where there is an English speaking tour guide.
I would love to tour China as she has so many different & beautiful places to see.
On top of that, different foods & culture at different parts of China.
If people can leave the politics out & truly appreciate the true beauty of China itself......
Agree with u.btw where r u from
大好河山！👍
I love China, I am glad I had the opportunity to visit it! But you are right, not easy to get there and less tourist friendly compared to Thailand. I was for about 3 weeks and visited mainly popular tourist areas- Beijing, Shanghai, Yangshuo ( my favourite) , Sian (second favourite), and a few more but if I go there again, I would love to see more of the rural side of the country and less popular areas. Nature is fantastic.
Try Kashgaher（highly recommend）or Chengdu👍👍
You have to try Shenzhen, it’s really nice
I recommend you to go to the west of Sichuan province, you will definitely be amazed by the picturesque views there.
四川大草原非常漂亮
Thanks for bringing that great scenery to us
Haha, I always thought that this lake is somewhere crazy in the middle of the desert... but it's actually really close to the next city, just behind a single large dune! Easier to get to than I thought!
Wow!! thanks for sharing your experience.
真的很美！我也很想去！🤩👍👍👍🙏
Support from Hong Kong! 👍👍
Thanks for sharing.
I have been there. It’s marvelous
Another great video. When u hit 300k subscribers please celebrate in big style. 👏👏👏
Thank u! your video actually is a wonderful documentary!better than BBC hundred times for sure
Yeah! The BBC journalists didn't go anywhere beautiful. They kept trying to investigate the genocide, flooding, slave labour and forced organ harvesting. Why show that when there are sand dunes to see?
been there, done that. you are correct 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 love from canada.
This place looks fun!!!
This is my hometown in Gansu Province! It’s worth going, and the greening of these years has also been done very well
以前的滑沙滑草都可以从最顶端一路到平地去，距离很长速度很快，却不太安全，特别是对孩子来说，然后就不知什么时候开始，变成了半山腰开始滑的，坡度平缓些安全倒是真的，但是不够尽兴啊
只要身上没有锐利物品，摔倒了也没啥，都是松软的沙子，天然的缓冲物啊！
Another great video Oli, makes me want to go back to China again. You guy keep those videos coming
Enjoy your silk road adventure 🔥🔥
Thanks Oli to show us Gansu's "Oasis in the desert", we will definitely visit there when we back to China.👏
It’s a very interesting place, definitely go there !!!
Great drone.view! Love this👍
this is same as those ancient desert kingdoms like Loulan.... once the lake dried up, the civilization disappeared
Salty, didn't you hear they filled it up...
@@wwbren back then they couldn't just "fill it up"
青海长云暗雪山，孤城遥望玉门关。
黄沙百战穿金甲，不破楼兰终不还。
The Qinghai Lake is densely covered with dark clouds, and the rolling snow-capped mountains are dim. The ancient city of frontier fortress, Yumen Xiongguan, thousands of miles away, facing each other. Guardsmen, who have gone through hundreds of battles, their armors are worn through, and their lofty ambitions are immortal. They will not defeat the invading enemy and vowed not to return to their hometown.
The Seven Poems of Gu Congjun Xing is one of the seven poems by Wang Changling (698-757), the great frontier fortress poet in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, "Huangsha wears golden armor in a hundred battles, does not break Loulan and will not return" is a masterpiece. The famous sentence in the fortress shows the spirit of the frontier soldiers to swear to kill the enemy.
@@fatdoi003 then this is not the same. Simple as that.
Wow...As an artist I really like to visit different places in the world including China. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video...♥️ stay safe and God bless you ❤️
Just like you mentioned, Chinese economy actually doesn't rely on the tourism. So they didn't do a lot of things to attract foreign people and didn't prepare for that. But I believe China will be more and more open in the future.
产业转型需要时间，无关开放与否 况且疫情特殊时期
Love that you speak Chinese to the kids, such a talent!
You need Vaseline or petroleum gel on your lips and on dry skin Oli.
Best apply it after shower.
This is the Mingsha Shan Park, Dunhuang. I was there several years ago. This was part of my Silk Road trip beginning in Lanzhou to Xining, then to Qinghai Lake and then Dunhuang, which is at the edge of the Gobi Desert.
Interesting place but can be very crowded with tourists.