Language barrier.

Its near to impossible getting around without a phrase book out here, so bring your Mandarin skills with you if your considering a visit.
We didn’t get a chance to pick up a Lonely Planet guide for China prior to us arriving, and man we wish we had just brought the one we saw at Kuala Lumpur airport - however at the time we thought it would be cheaper to pick up in China itself, and

my… hand... slowly… reached... out... &... placed… the... book... back… on... the... shelf. - (can see it all happening again in flashback)!

Moving on, we got into China, and finding a bookstore without the lonely planet guide is difficult enough, luckily we drove past a huge building named Beijing Bookstore, and we thought - yes there is a god! At arriving at this glorious bookstore, which was absolutely huge… There wasn’t a single English book in the entire humongous beast of a building… is what we thought - at leaving the store glancing to the left we spotted a Lonely Planet guide whispering out to us. At approaching the section to our luck, they had em all except of course China! So we took our sorry asses out of the store and went on in the hunt of another bookshop.
There was a foreign language bookstore which we found in Beijing - we managed to pick up a Mandarin Phrasebook from here. But they didn’t have any Lonely Planet guides on China, but we felt we made some progress as we could now say:

"Yo.may.yo lor.ne.lee poo.la.nai.ter der lew.yo jir.nun shoo"

in Mandarin, which translates to: ''Do you have any Lonely Planet guidebooks?''