China Travel Interview: Backpacking for Charity – Arts & Entertainment

www.chinatravel.net — Quit your job, travel the world, live your dream? Viktoria Orizarska did, falling in love with China and founding a charity along the way. Here, she shares insights on China, traveling solo as a woman, doing good in the world by traveling it, China's matrilineal Mosuo society, learning kung fu at a monastery, getting by with three words of Mandarin and charades, why China reminds her of her native Bulgaria ... and more.

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