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Travel with Locals

Travel Vlogger Zhang Junqi wants to show people a different way of travelling

-- making friends with locals.

By Glacier He

Zhang Junqi and her camera. (Photo courtesy of Zhang Junqi)
O
n December 21, 2020, a 24-year-old travel vlogger would be having a meal to celebrate winter solstice with
Zhang Junqi had a special winter solstice dinner two policemen,” Zhang recalls. “This experience is so mag-
ical,” she says.
during her trip in Heilongjiang Province, China.
Zhang encountered one of the police officers on the
Zhang ate dumplings at a police station with her new street when she was taking photos for her vlog. The of-
friends whom she met on her journey. Eating dumplings is ficer drove close to her and asked whether the police car
a tradition of winter solstice for most people in northern blocked her view of photo-taking.
China. “We had a nice conversation and that was how our
“I did not expect that my first visit to a police office friendship began…Now we are still in touch,” Zhang says.

My first visit to a police office would be having a meal to

celebrate winter solstice with two policemen.