12 hour layover in Xiamen- Help needed to figure out how to get around town and get back to the airport
Hello all. I have a long lay-over in Xiamen, China, next Saturday (Dec 16th) from 5 am to 5 pm and I was hoping to go out and see the city a little bit. Usually exploring during a long layover is not an issue for me but I found myself unable to do much last time I accidentally ended up with a long layover in Shanghai (1 year ago). I do not speak any Chinese. I walked out of the airport and no one including the taxi drivers spoke any English (which makes sense considering its china). I couldn’t find any public transport to go anywhere. So I ended up walking out of the airport and walking around for 30 minutes in the middle of nowhere and then walking straight back because I was afraid of getting lost/robbed with no way of getting back. The airport didn’t have any wifi that I could use either so there was no way for me to figure out what to do.
This time, I am hoping I can have a more productive layover with the help of a plan. One of my Chinese colleagues told me it’s almost impossible to go anywhere (even for him when he goes back to visit China) as everything, including taxi payments, is connected to some big digital system. Not sure what that means but it sounds like that makes it harder for a solo traveler to get around.
Regardless, if anyone has any tips on what a solo traveler visiting Xiamen for 12 (10 realistically) hours could do and how I could find transportation from and to the airport to the places I should go to, that would be very helpful. Any recommendations are highly appreciated. Thank you.
Submitted December 09, 2017 at 09:24PM by mclovin215 http://ift.tt/2B57Hzy
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