Has someone claimed it would be impossible to enter China?
It does not seem to be impossible, but it does seem to be VERY complicated, time-consuming, needs to be planned months in advance of the crossing, and last but definitely not least, very expensive. These days it seems Vietnam has gone more or less the same way. Wonder if their officials were actually told by their Chinese counterparts, how to start extracting big money from foreigners!
We did a trip from Europe to Australia, and researched the China-option for a while... turned out it could very well eat up something like 50% of our whole trip budget for two!!! So yeah, it is probably a very exciting country, but no thanks - there are many many others, that I havent seen yet, and can enter much cheaper! (And in fact we were in India in December, so at that time there was probably no way to cross the Himalayas & Tibetan plateau on a bike anyway, and our whole trip was 6 months, so not possible to wait for the spring.)
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