China!!! Couchsurfing in Yantai!

Yantai was our stop in China. A nice city close to the beach. We decided to try couchsurf (sleep for free on someone's couch) here because we wanted to get in touch with some locals and find out how Couchsurfing is. We stayed with Zoe and Mark for 3 nights and we had an amazing time. Zoe is a chinese girl from the north of china and Mark is an American guy who moved to china 8 years ago to teach English. They were so caring and shared everything with us. When we arrived the table was already set for lunch with a lot of small different chinese dishes, delicious.

Zoe cooked for us everyday and it was great to get to taste the chinese cuisine that way. We ate a lot of vegetables we have never had or seen before. The couchsurfing experience was awesome because Yantai is such a small non touristy city and without them we would have never found anything. 

We went to the beach together, had chinese BBQ at the beach, went to a farmers market and Zoe also helped us to buy train tickets for the trip from Beijing to Shanghai. We got very lucky to meet and stay with them. A great start of our trip in China!

Zoe also recommend us a couchsurfing host in Beiing, so we canceled our hostel in Beijing and decided to couchsurf even more.