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Forbidden City Beijing
466 Reviews I always wanted to visit the Forbidden City because it was ...well...forbidden...but I never expected it to be taken so seriously! While back in the day it may have been forbidden for an average...
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Yuyuan Garden & Bazaar Shanghai
187 Reviews Yu Gardens is certainly a 'must' when is Shanghai. The shopping,dining and architecture is truly a wonderful experience when visiting this city. Watch dumplings being made, buy jade jewelry, or...
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Places around Guangzhou Guangzhou
36 Reviews Baiyun Hill is a beautiful Botanical Garden located in Guangzhou. There are so many works of art here, I was truly amazed. The time it must've taken to cultivate all those animals from living plants...
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Terracotta Army Xi'an
184 Reviews The Terracotta Army was discovered in March 1974 by a farmer digging a well, very close to the location of Emperor Qin Shihuang's tomb. Buried for approx 2,200 years, apparently it took some 38 years...
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Window of the World Shenzhen
20 Reviews Travel around the world in one day. This 480,000 square meter park has a beautiful natural landscapes and wonderful lighting at night. Inside, you can climb the 1:3 ratio Eiffel Tower, Egyptian...
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Pandas Chengdu
76 Reviews Walking around the Panda Research grounds we noticed a stone monument acknowledging Jackie Chan for his financial support of the Panda Research. He was made the Giant Panda Ambassador. Jackie Chan...
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Harbin Ice Sculptures Harbin
43 Reviews Not to be mistaken with snow sculptures. Ice sculptures illuminated by coloured lights may not be everybody's idea of pretty but still, it wows you with its sheer size and creativity. The coloured...
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Yellow Crane Tower Wuhan
24 Reviews Originally constructed in 223, after being destroyed and rebuilt repeatedly throughtout history by fires and war, the current structure was built quite recently in 1985. It is still quite beautiful...
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Great Wall Beijing
202 Reviews Jinshanling Great Wall is located about 130 km from downtown Beijing and in my opinion serves as the best portion of the Great Wall to visit for several reasons. For one thing its the least crowded...
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The Bund Shanghai
218 Reviews After dark, take a cruise on the Huangpu River, where you can take in the beautiful sight of Shanghai and Pudong at night. The lights from the tall skyscrapers in Pudong as well as those from the Bund...
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Qing Ping Market Guangzhou
6 Reviews Cantonese people are known to eat anything! Just go to this market and see! If you see here dogs and cats alive, people buy them to eat. Unfortunately, I visited this market at the end of a Saturday...
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Muslim Quarters Xi'an
64 Reviews The mosque of Xi'an is a surprise, without many signs connecting to muslim art and architecture. However, when you exit, if you walk a little in the narrow roads, you will easily fell the muslim way...
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Splendid China Shenzhen
5 Reviews It combines two different sections. The first part is a miniature park of China. You can find the famous Forbidden City, Terracotta Soldiers, Tibet Potala Palace, Huangshan Mountains, Yunnan's Stone...
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Leshan's Giant Buddha Chengdu
20 Reviews Caught the bus/coach to Leshan (44 yuans each) - home of the 71m Buddha. Upon arrival at Leshan Town you have to catch a local bus #13 (only 1 yuan) to Big Buddha. We decided to have lunch prior to...
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Siberian Tiger Park Harbin
9 Reviews Tiger park... you'd think it is just a name. But apparently they have a wonderful National Park where tigers and lions live in the wild. Actually, we went there because my Australian's friend Chinese...
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Hubei Provincial Museum Wuhan
11 Reviews The Hubei Provincial Museum is an amazing museum with an impressive collection of artifacts excavated from areas throughout Hubei Province. The most famous are the bronze bells (bianzhong) excavated...
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Tiananmen Square Beijing
346 Reviews My initial impression of Tiananmen Square was how clean it was...remarkably free of blood which is always a good thing. But I guess I should of figured there wouldn't be any lingering blood stains,...
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Nanjing Lu Shanghai
74 Reviews Nanjing Road must be the best shopping destination in the world. It's miles of shops all along a pedestrian only shopping meca. There are small trams that can ferry you up the road, should you...
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Guangzhou Zoo Guangzhou
10 Reviews The zoo was founded in 1958 and covers 42 hectares. It receives about 2.5 million visitors annually. I'm not a fan of zoos, but while in China I couldn't pass up the chance of seeing a...
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Wild Goose Pagodas Xi'an
59 Reviews The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, an enormous building comprising 7 floors and surrounded by beautiful gardens was originally built in AD652 during the reign of Emperor Gaozong (During Tang Dynasty 628-683)....
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Minsk World Shenzhen
2 Reviews Minsk World is a military theme park with the former USSR aircraft carrier Minsk as main exhibit. Around the park are some MIG fighters and artillery pieces too. After crossing the border at Lo Wu...
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Wenshu Temple Chengdu
28 Reviews Wenshu Monastery is a famous Buddhist temple in China and is one of four major temples of Zen Buddhism. Initially built in the Sui Dynasty (605-617), Wenshu Monastery was once called Xinxiang Temple....
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Church of St. Sophia Harbin
16 Reviews Russian influence at its peak. The St Sophia church is one of the last few remaining Russian structures left in Harbin. We learnt how another Russian church was tragically destroyed during the...
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Guiyuan Temple Wuhan
7 Reviews Guiyuan Temple is famous as the first Chan (Zen) temple to be built in Hubei. It was constructed in 1658. It is a large complex, featuring many a variety of structures with the most famous being the...
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Temple of Heaven Beijing
210 Reviews One of the reasons that Beijing is such a special city is the way they have managed to perserve their diverse culture despite the modern growth of the city. Beijing is full of parks, ancient hutongs,...
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This is an amazing sight, taking 11 years to complete and only found again in 1974 and opened for public viewing in 1979. Here sits replicas of what the warriors and horses looked like in those days of the Qin dynasty.
Bigger than the Forbidden City and smaller than the Summer Palace, this is well worth a visit.THe design refelcts ancient thoughts that Heaven is round and the Earth is Square.Try out the Echoe Stones, such simple fun, along with the Echo Wall which allows your words to be carried around the wall so that if you whisper something one end, your pal can hear it at the other end quite clearly. Watch out for the Nine Dragon Cypress tree, getting it's name fromt the nine branches which intertwine.
This is the largest City Central Square in the world, here you can watch the national flag raising ceremony and see places such as the Great Hall of the People and Mao Zedong Memorial Hall. People come here to take time out. As you will see from the photo, there was a clock counting down the seconds to when China regained control of Hong Kong.
Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is north of Tia'nanmen Square and is the world's largest palace. There is a moat surrounding it, within the walls there is one short of a 2000 buildings.There are two sections to the palace, the Outer Court where the King ruled and the Inner Court where he lived with his family.The walls are made from glutinous rice and egg whites, unexpectedly etremely strong.
The section we visited was the remains from the Ming Dynasty, it is well preserved and a beautiful sight to see. Even though it rained it was still a fantastic place to go to, the wonder of how it was built to the wonder of the scenery beyond it.
From what I gather a Hutong is today it seems different from the one I experienced as you will see from the pics. At the time we were told they were out of bounds but curiosity was too tempting and I was glad I had had my typhoid injection. However, it was an insight into the life of the average Chinese, how they lived from day to day, I loved visiting this place as it gave a truer version of society as it was then.
Whilst in Guiling, a cruise from here to Yangshuo is an experience to enjoy the fantastic Karst peaks by. Whilst peasants work on the paddy fields, nearby the water buffalo whallow in mud pools, school children, grinning happily and fisherman working their cormorants float by on their crude boats. These fisherman tie a cord around the Cormorants neck, send them off to catch fish and retrieve the fish from their throats when they surface, offering them a fish every so often for good service.Water buffalo graze everywhere and are part of the countryside, just like sheep and cows are in England.It is a world away from the busy, bussling cities of China, no horns blowing, no polution, just a breeze in your face and the basics of life surrounding you.
When you arrive in the South of China. It becomes unescapable that the area is a little behind the Northern and Coastal regions.Initially it is something of a culture shock to see exactly how poor and depressed the area seems. However, after a little while you adjust and it all seems quite different and strangely attractive. There are many interesting things to see. Old temples, and markets, gardens, and an old college from Imperial Times as well as palaces etc. The food is not for the traveller determined to eat western food at all costs. You wont find any.But I found everything interesting even if I didn't always know what I was eating.I also managed to buy some good quality Jade at not too expensive a price in comparison to the North and places such as Shanghai. Try It and see.
8000+ steps can't be wrong! Go to Tai Shan and climb the steps to the top of the most sacred Chinese mountain. There are plenty of places to stay that are over priced for foreigners! Get a chinese person to go with you and you will save lots of money and hassle. If you don't you may end up drugged in a tub full of ice with one of your kidney's missing.
China is one of the most interesting countries that I have been to. The history of this place is amazing,The Moguls, The Emporers, The Long March. one could go on and on.The museums,The Forbidden City in Beiijing,The Great Wall, The old temples,The wonder of modern Shanghaii, The art -dec Dalian(Port Arthur in the 1930's)The differences between North, Middle and South China are very striking.To really experience China, one should allocate a s much time as possible,The people for the most part are very friendly,although officialdom can be a bit of a nuisance.Still they are only doing their job and one must remember Confuscious on the subject of patience.Watching the construction of new buildings in some of the inland towns, where lots of people are engaged in construction as they have done it for hundreds of years ,in many cases without any modern machinary, is a very humbling experience...
Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing Beijing
4 Reviews and 773 Opinions Located centrally in the Wangfujing area, this hotel is close to everywhere you want to get to...
Peace Hotel Shanghai Shanghai
12 Reviews and 150 Opinions The Hotel is truely a mixture of ancient and modern decore built in a Gothic Style, it once was...
The Garden Hotel Guangzhou Guangzhou
7 Reviews and 136 Opinions My friend and I just checked into this hotel. The rooms we received are terrible with stained...
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