Traveling for $20 A Day: Wuxi, China – Ep 19

Wuxi, China makes for a perfect day trip when you want to escape the stress of Shanghai. In this video, I show you how you can stroll around Yuantouzhu, Huishan Old Town and Nanchang Street, eat delicious Wuxi food and street food, and get a bed in a Wuxi hostel – all for 20 bucks (138 RMB)!

Total cost to travel Wuxi, China for a whole day:

Bus fare – 2 RMB
Wuxi wine sample – FREE
2 Yulan bing 玉兰饼 5 RMB
Green tea – 10 RMB
Tofu soup – 6 RMB
4 Xiaolong bao 小笼包 10
Bus fare – RMB
Yuantouzhu 鼋头渚 – FREE
Bus fare – 2 RMB
Sweet potato – 4 RMB
三鲜面 10 RMB
Sweet and sour pork 糖酥排骨 13 RMB
Incense burner – 20 RMB
Taxi fare – 12 RMB
Hostel bed – 38 RMB

TOTAL COST = 134 RMB ($19.46)

Top Comments:

1. fuck the incense holder that dope beat was the reason to watch till the end
2. I remember 2 and a half years ago I moved to China and looked at some Youtube channels located in China, you seemed great then and even better now, I’m still in Hefei, China and I’m happy you’re still making videos and all the success you’ve gotten, very cool videos and they’re always great.
3. I am a wuxi local and I really love your video. Thank you for promoting my city so well.
4. YES MAN, I AM SO HAPPY YOURE BACK. I WAS SCARED THAT SEASON TWO WASNT COMING FOR A LONG TIME. BLESSED
5. Love the day to night transition! Your channel is growing pretty quick. Probably hit over 100k by end of year!
6. best travel videos on YouTube right now. you should have at least a million subscribers. keep them coming.
7. I watch your videos everyday trying to watch as many as possible each day. you hive me so much inspiration plz never give this up
8. Go to wuzhen my favorite place in China. Traveled there with some friends when I lived in shanghai. Also since you’re living in shanghai go to pepper love on yananxi lu and ding Xi lu the food is so good dandan mian is to die for, owner Lili is a good friend.
9. Hi glad your back, $20 dollars goes further now that its almost 7 rmb. to 1 buck. makes it nice. huh.
10. Wuxi 无锡 means “no tin”. They once mined tin here hundreds of years ago and once the tin was exhausted, they renamed the town that formed around the old mine, Wuxi.