If you travel a lot, ask immigration to put the stamp in a corner of your passport to save space. Dont put food in your luggage, if you are extremely unlucky a

If you travel a lot, ask immigration to put the stamp in a corner of your passport to save space. Dont put food in your luggage, if you are extremely unlucky a customs dog will smell it. Just walk through customs, no one cares about you. The GFW will block most social media sites and all of Google. The GFW detects the ssh protocol and slows it down/blocks it. ssh -D does work for like 30 seconds or so. Mosh works good. If you really really want to use ssh -D and firefox, remember to do an about:config and change remote DNS to true. Do the same if you use shadowsocks. Plain tor is mostly blocked. If you want to use your own, private VPN connection, use IPSEC, not PPTP. Overseas connection (Europe/USA) are extremely slow. Set up a private VPM in HK or Japan to enjoy faster speeds. Change you apt location or equivalent to something like mirrors.aliyun.com or wait hours for any updates/ package installs.