Are there companies in China that offer personal tour guide services?
I will be traveling to China by myself and interested in hiring a person to be a personal tour guide for multiple days ...possibly as long as a month. This will be my first trip to China and my grasp of the language is not so great. Are there companies in China that I can contact that offer multi-day tour guides? I will be arriving in Beijing and plan on traveling throughout China for at least 30 days. I'm not interested in pre-planned tours or anything like that. Just need someone who is trustworthy to show me around who can speak the language and keep us out of trouble.
Best Answer
To be honest, you could nab a university student and he would love to practice his/her English on you all day in whatever city you are in and take you around for free.
For example, you can find a victim on conversationexchange.com or something. Just try to coordinate the dates and the cities.
If you want something more pro, you can try seekpanda.com. But I believe this is more translation oriented, however, if you drop them a line they could probably give you a one-on-one excursion too.
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