u/New-Row9199

I'm wanting to do a long close to like 3-4weeks trip to somewhere that isn't the typical travel hotspots like your mainland europe, Japan, thailand, and the US. With it being July I doubt places in the southern hemisphere would really be ideal to go to.

I'd say I'm your realitevly anxious traveler but I don't mind going at least slightly beyond the confort zone of I guess your normal holiday goer.

any recomendations would be great whether that is places to avoid or places that are a must.

Planning on doing a month long trip to china once I graduate in July next year, I probably need some humbling as I go a lil over board when I travel, as in I put way to much into one trip.

Also being an anxious traveler that being afraid of missing things as I may never be able to go back, but also of problems in general would be great to here of others experiences of others who might have done something similar.

I would attach the wanderlog plan I have made but I'm not sure what the rules on that are on this Sub

So far the plan is (all rough estimates on dates currently as things change):

London 1st July - Seoul 3rd July: Fly with lufthansa (seem to be the cheapest when bought in advance that also doesn't lay over in the middle east which seems risky currently)

Seoul 2rd July - 6th July: On average roughly 11 sights on each full day (This sounds like alot but I recently did a trip to Japan that roughly had the same amount of things a day and it was douable).

Busan 6th July - 10th July: take high speed train down. Again same sort of density of sights to see and do as seoul, but it looks like more of a place that should be relaxed at like on beach and such but I might be wrong.

Shanghai/Nanjing/Suzhou 10th July - 19th july: Currently unsure if I should split the stay between Nanjing and Shanghai or just do day trips from one of them to another as there is a highspeed train between them. Similar to an Osaka to Kyoto situation.

Chengdu/Leshan 19th July - 24th July: Fly from either Shanghai or Nanjing depending on where I've ended up staying.

Xi'an 24th July: this would be done as a trip between Chengdu and Beijing. I know the total train journey between chengdu to beijing is roughly 10 hours so I thought spliting that up with seeing terracota soilders and maybe Banpo would be possible as it seems the train to Beijing from Xi'an seems to run relatively late.

Beijing 24th July - 30th July: I have a day here where I was unable to fill it up with anything maybe it's best to keep that day free for the stuff that may not have been able to be done on the other high density days previously.

Beijing - London 30th July - 1st August: fly back with lufthansa again as that seems to be the cheapest.

Notes and costs:

All costs I have found are really using March as thats the most reliable date to get flights as most airlines have released them. Hotels/Airbnbs I've mixed between March and July because of availability.

also all costs are roughly converted into GBP but will convert back into Yuan and Dollars to maybe get it to be more of a convience.

Break down of costs

- Sights/activties: £293.8/$397.25/¥2,697.94

- transit: £210.88/$285.14/¥1,936.49 - roughly accounting for trains between cities, as well as city transport such as underground and taxis ect..

- food £237.27/$320.82/¥2,178.83

- Lodging: £508.5/$687.55/¥4,669.51- combination between airbnbs and hotels

- Flights: £691.55/$935.06/¥6350.45 - this obviously could change for the month of July.

Total: 1,942/$2625.82/¥17,833.23

probably keeping roughly £600/$811 for the just in case senarios and general shopping.

Any advice on what to see, what to avoid would be amazing. Along with whether this even seems feasible. I'm sure on a cost perspective im low balling it but I cannot be sure. I can always go into more detail about what will be done each day as its already all planned out but currently all hypothetical.