r/travel • u/Thecreamypastas • 13h ago
Question Waze/Google Maps equivalent in China for navigating?
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u/IJzer3Draad 12h ago
It might have changed in the past years, but I think you need a real Chinese driver's license, rather than an IDP, if you want to drive yourself there.
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u/Thecreamypastas 12h ago
Wait why?
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u/IJzer3Draad 12h ago
I had a buddy with the local license drive me around Yunnan and Henan. He told me it was a combination of the high risk of accidents due to reckless local drivers and an attempt to curtail foreigners's autonomous movement around less organized/government controlled areas. I saw bat shit crazy traffic in the more rural areas. Especially the notoriously overloaded red trucks with water mist cooled brakes in the mountains were something I'll never forget driving in between.
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