If you spent all seven days of the Spring Festival holiday doing nothing at home, consider yourself lucky. As Spring Festival began with a great migration to the countryside, it ended with an influx of citizens back into the cities. With so many people moving at the same time, traffic on China’s highways and byways was heavier than ever.

The photograph up top shows the airport in Incheon, South Korea. The Korean Tourism Organization estimates that Chinese tourism went up as much as 30 percent during the Spring Festival, with upwards of 126,000 tourists visiting the country.

Chinese tourists also made their presence known in Japan. According to local media, an estimated 450,000 mainlanders spent a total of $941 million in the country over the holiday, though they weren’t entirely appreciated there. The China National Tourism Administration said that 5.19 million mainland travellers flew abroad this holiday, up ten percent from last year.

Domestically, China’s roads were hit hard with holiday traffic. There was a traffic jam 10 kilometers long on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway. Drivers caught in the congestion said that a regular drive from Baoding to Beijing, which usually takes three hours, took six hours to complete.

Air pollution also dramatically limited visibility. Nineteen highways in Henan were closed when a yellow alert was issued for “fog”, which limited visibility to just 200 meters. On the Suzhou leg of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, visibility was down to just 100 meters.