Quintessential Chinese: Tourguide's Speaker

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:51:02 +0200

As if the chinese way of chatting in large groups wouldn't be noisy enough, EACH chinese tourguide carries his own little amplifier and speaker system on him, of course ALWAYS set to full volume. These guys manage to talk without a break for an unlimited amount of time. Combinded with the fact, that tourist places are often flooded by several tourgroups at a time, this leads to an almost unbearable noise in these places. Funnily enough, english speaking tourguides often don't use the speaker, and therefore are - partly to the surrounging noise and partly to the often strong chinese accent - usually hard do impossible to understand. Well, this seems to be the fait of a foreign tourist in china.....