Your Next Holiday Begins on April 2: Where Will You Go?

Your next official holiday is 38 days away. Here's where your mind could potentially drift sitting at your desk thinking of that April 2-4 long weekend. If you like any of these choices, bear in mind that while Qing Ming (Tomb Sweeping) Festival tends to be more of a local family holiday and not an occasion to travel, China's outbound travel market has remained strong despite a slowing economy. Takeaway: book that getaway now.

Our Japan travel fetish will continue shortly in a series of Get Out posts from the Beijinger's former Deputy Managing Editor Robynne Tindall, and you should read and consider every single one of them. Along with the soon to be mentioned destinations, we've also written about travel to Hiroshima and Hokkaido, and we're about to more than double our travel coverage of places in Japan. Just go already, and April is a fantastic time for just about the entire country.

One place worth missing in April is Thailand, unless your preferred temperature is "hotter than hell." This is the pre-monsoon, post-high, hot season, so the price may be right, but unless you really like sweltering heat, maybe there are better times to visit. Then again, Jian Piero of Capital Training Center was telling me that private Muay Thai lessons in Thailand are only RMB 100-150 per hour. Thai boxing training during the hot season for a super shred? That's not a terrible idea.

Then there's Taiwan. Now your correspondent equates Taiwan with boredom, but he realizes he seems to be in the minority on that one. Again, it's a pre-rainy season travel situation. It's also a pre-humid and sweltering summer situation, so if Taiwan is to your liking, then early April is a pretty good time.

Here's an alternate, domestic suggestion: "Take a fast train to Wuhan, and then take a slightly slower train to Shiyan, and connect to Wudangshan. You can be there in seven hours. Eat your way through some great food and then hang around in the mountains for a couple of days," said Great Leap Brewing boss Carl Setzer.

Where are you headed for the holiday? Let us know in the Comments section below.

One road flat safe.

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