‘Wild trips’ to ‘secret resorts’ on China’s urban fringes promoted by social media influencers take off as weekend substitutes for longer holidays


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“ Go wild, go wild, go wild in the country/where snakes in the grass are absolutely free, ” sang Yangon, Myanmar-born Annabella Lwin, on the 1982 Bow Wow Wow hit Go Wild in the Country , and should be proud of the Great Outdoors-loving Chinese tourists who are making like snakes and going absolutely free. Britain’s The Guardian newspaper writes about the phenomenon of “wild trips” ( yeyou ), which are short visits made by urbanites to close-by, off-grid locations. Wild tripping began to gain popularity in 2020 among those frustrated by the vicissitudes of the coronavirus, apparently. “At a...