This 3-day itinerary to China takes you to the best of Beijing. UNESCO World Heritage site, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Lama Temple, Summer Palace, a Peking duck dinner at Sinji Minfu, Jingshan Park China, The Great Wall cable car ride, Ming Tombs, street food tasting at the night market on Wangfujing Street, Olympic Park, and other traditional Chinese tourist attractions. It’s the perfect 3-day Beijing Itinerary.

From The Macau Grand Prix Museum to Casinos, shows, The Ruins of St. Paul, Giant Panda Pavilion, Taipa House Museum, Macao Tower, bungee jumping, Macau Maritime Museum, Seac Pai Van Park, natural black sand beaches, and more, Macau is the Vegas of Asia.

This would be easy enough. On July 4th I would fly twelve and a half hours from Los Angeles to Shenyang, China, have a 3 hour layover, then board the two hour flight from Shenyang to Beijing, where I would spend the night in a hotel by the airport, get up the next morning, meet the dogs at airport check in, and deliver them all to San Francisco. It was a good plan. …Except that’s not how it went at all.

This trip wasn’t about sightseeing. While China has many spectacular sights, sounds, and tastes, I was here to help feed, medicate and clean up after over one hundred dogs saved from the meat trade and currently being housed at a safe house.

Beijing was my first solo trip abroad. It took a lot to overcome my fear of traveling alone, but life is too short to sit back waiting for other people to buy a ticket to your dreams. Get out there and live! The reward is worth fighting through the discomfort.

My travel adventures began six years ago in Beijing, China. Now how does a chronically ill, broke, introvert with social anxiety and no experience traveling end up alone in Beijing, China? I'm glad you asked. Groupon, silly. For $999, I purchased an 8-day tour package to Beijing with flight, hotel, meals, and excursions included. In all honesty, it wasn't that I had some burning desire to see China in particular. I simply wanted to visit every country in the world, and China seemed like as good a place as any to begin.