Travelling should be fun, but for many people who take domestic trips during the 'golden week' holidays, it has become torture.
The difficulty in buying rail tickets, congestion at tourist sites, and traffic jams are among the hassles 330 million mainlanders faced as they took off over National Day.
Ye Ping , a 25-year-old Beijing bank accountant, planned her trip to Shanghai early.
She thought she was smart planning a September 28 departure two days before the start of the holiday week.
She was first in the queue on the morning of September 25, when rail tickets for September 28 became available. But the clerk told her tickets were sold out.
She tried the next day, but after queuing for two hours she was disappointed again - no tickets to Shanghai or neighbouring cities until October 1.
