Travel Guide - Hangzhou Botanical Garden – One of the Best Natural Garden in Hangzhou City!

Hangzhou Botanical Garden is the largest public botanical garden located in Hangzhou City of Zhejiang Province (has many famous travel attractions for China vacation deals). The garden is developed in 1956 and is located exactly in Taoyuanling of Xihu District. Sprawled over 248.46 acres of land, the garden is managed and maintained by Hangzhou Garden and Relics Management Bureau. Looking from the West Lake area the garden is on the foot valley of Jade Spring Hill on the North West end of West Lake. The park is not just a colorful flowering plants and trees, but a research based unit on various aspects of plants and environment protection studies.

Cool and fresh atmosphere
People are attracted to the botanical park due to its diverse character. Colorful followers, verities of trees, cool and fresh air are the main element that attracts tourists very much. The layout of the garden is supplemented with kiosks and resting facilities and watching pavilions.

Two sections
The garden has two divisions, the research section and leisure garden area. The research section is always busy with various experiments on plants and horticultural activities to make China travel service interesting . Here the scientists carry out various experiments on preserving endangered species of plants and try to replicate the plants without losing its genetic qualities. Ruthless handling of humans has put many plant species in a near extinct stage and great efforts are being carried out here to survive them.
The leisure garden area has Botany Classification Garden, Botany Appreciation Garden, Bamboo Garden, Garden of Economic Plants, Medicinal Garden and Plant Resources Museum. The 'Lingfeng Tanmei' section in the Botanical Appreciation Garden is an exciting location and so is very much attention catching place. Tourist can see more than 5,000 plum trees dancing in the breeze. The blooming of plums is a wonderful scene to watch.

Unique character
Each sections within the garden are unique in character. When going in to the section of Bamboo Garden, you will be surprised to see the different variety of Bamboo plants. Especially the fast growing Damaozhu species, which can show a growth of one meter height in single night and can reach to a height of a three storey building within one month, is an amazing experience one should not miss to watch. Though bamboos are originally classified as grass species, some bamboo plants are typically grass looking style. Some of the bamboos have spots on its stem. In the Garden of Economic Plants, you can meet the plants that are used for commercial purpose to produce medicines, fibers, industrial materials, industrial resins and various flavors.

Great ambience
No wonder the garden is full of greeneries and green meadows. It is a good place for relaxation, leisure, enjoyment and family get together. There are various entertainment facilities targeting children and adults. The park is an ideal romantic place for couples to spend quality time together. Beautiful location makes it impossible to compromise on photography. Each of the photo frames would competes each other and that happiness transforms your soul in to an energizing body action. You will be free of any negative charges during your China Holidays. Such is the magic of this highly charges botanical garden.

Travel tips
This is an all season park. Entry is restricted by admission fee, which will cost you CNY 10 per adults and CNY 5 per children less than 1.3 meter height. The park is opened from 7:00 am to 5:30 pm. Frequent bus services are available from Hangzhou bus station during day time.

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Former Residence of Hu Xueyan – An Important Landmark Location in Hangzhou

Former Residence of Hu Xueyan is a historically important building and one of the best Qing Dynasty structures still standing tall with all its beauty. This is the pride of Hangzhou city, near to the West Lake Scenic Area (must-see during your last minute China travel deals), in Shangcheng District of Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. You can drive straight to 18, Yuanbao Street and you will be surprised to see this time tested historical building standing with all its proud, which was once home for the rich merchant Hu Xueyan of Qing Dynasty. This old structure, indeed add the glamour the beautiful historical city Hangzhou. Besides the historically important location, Hangzhou is having wonderful scenic spot and a magnificent location.


Summary life the wealthy merchant
You may get surprised when you come to see the shoe-shaped ingot in the alley of the residence of Hu Xueyan. Not to get surprised, Chinese believe that a shoe-shaped ingot will bring fortune to the house. This is the first thing what you can see when you enter the house and after passing through a secluded alley. The alley is having more 120 years history and is called as Yuanbao alley. The shoe-shaped ingot shows how attached was Hu Xueyan with believes and his commitment reap success in business.

Mian shan cheng rong
Let us enter in to the front door. Immediately after entering the front door you will be greeted with sedan chair hall or we can call it as parking lot. Ginkgo wood is used to manufacture the sedan chairs. Above there is a plaque which depicts to read as "mian shan cheng rong" which was inscribed by Royal Emperor Tongzhi. The exit door is fixed as per 'vastu belief' or 'geometrical omen' and not directly positioned with the front door, instead it has fixed slightly east to the wall. He might have believed that fixing the door along the right axis will be difficult to keep his fortune and business success.

Passing through the second door, on your left side you can see the Zhiyuan Garden. This garden is located on the south side of Yangtze River (enjoy the beautiful view via Yangtze River tour). On the right side is the living quarters made of red hot bricks with engravings and also wood engraved works. The glass panes are imported and are more than 100 years old. Tourist will be confused always, how to and where to start their visiting session. Such is the beauty of the inner court yard with pavilions, rockeries, towers, corridors and marvelous decorations. One of the important places inside house is the opera hall, named Huijn Hall.

Exquisite luxury western style chandeliers
Hu Xueyan's international business connections can be read out through the exquisite luxury western style chandeliers dangling the main hall. All these chandeliers are important and have been bestowed with costly cut crystal glasses. The main hall is known as Yinglian Hall and this hall was used to receive foreign guests. From the top of the hall tower, one can watch the flow of Qiantang River (don't miss for your China travel service ). This hall was considered as the highest building during the Hu's era.


Tourism tips
The best season to visit Former Residence of Hu Xueyan is March to November. The complex will be open from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm and for entry, you have to pay CNY 20 per head. Tourists from Shanghai can be easily reached here by boarding the High speed train to Hangzhou and there are enough regular buses to Former Residence of Hu Xueyan.
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Grand Canal – The Largest Man Made Canal in China

Grand Canal, also called as Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (must-see for China tour deals)is starting from Beijing and passing through Tianjin and also the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang through the city of Hangzhou. The canal connects the Yangtze River and Yellow River. Being one of the largest men made canal, this canal attracts lots of domestic and international tourists. Presently, the canal is declared as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The canal has a long history dated back to 5th century BC and the various sections of the canal were merged together during Sui Dynasty in 581-618 AD.

Pound Lock System
The combined length of the Grand Canal is 1,776 kilometers. The ancient Chinese engineering skills have successfully taken the vessels to the top of the mountains of Shandong, which has a height of 42 meters from the ground level by implementing the Pound Lock System. The highest canal level is at the summit of Shandong hill. The Pound Lock technology was invented during Song Dynasty in 960-1279 by engineer Qiao Weiyo who was a government official too. There are references about the Grand Canal and the wonderful Pound Lock system by many historians including the eminent Japanese monk Ennin, Persian historian Rashid Al Din, Italian missionary Matteo Ricci and Korean official Choe Bu. The pound technology is a step by step uplifting of water level by blocking one end of the canal and releasing water from the other end and increase the water level to move the vessel to next stage. There could be various stages to complete the process till the vessel reaches to the final destination.


Significant economical contributions
Grand Canal had contributed significantly towards the growth of China by connecting different part of the provinces and having an easy and economical transport/ferry system. Large volume of goods and merchandise were able to move from one location to other location of the provinces. The approximate age of the Grand Canal is calculated as 2,000 years and some portions of the canals are still in use. The canal is mainly used as water diversion conduit now a day for China travel service.

Tragic suffering of labors
As many of the history stained with the blood of innocent human life, the Grand Canal too had some horrible human life loss story. The construction of the canal was believed to be started by Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty. He moved the capital city to Luoyang and undertook large scale expansion of the canal. The orthodox construction techniques hit about 3 Million labors life, due to hard labor and hunger. This could be one of the reasons why Sui Dynasty collapsed, due to poor planning and lack of finance to complete the project. The project was considered in resulting draining of exchequer and wastage of human power.

It helped the economy
However over a period of time, when the canals were interlinked it was easy to move goods from one end of China to the southern end of Zhejiang province-the city Hangzhou. The canal connected Yangtze, Yellow Huaihe, Haihe and Qiantang Rivers and connected provinces Beijing (don't miss during your China Educational tours), Tianjin, Hebei, Shadong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The easy transportation of men and material helped to prosper the regions like never before. The contribution to strengthen the economy was beyond the imagination of any rulers.

Travel tips
Today this is one of the most attractive tourist destination and canal boating is one of the highlight of the tourism activities. Tourists can reach here easily by taking the Shanghai-Hangzhou high speed railway and from the city it easy to catch the canal area by regular bus services.


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Feicui Island - Half Desert and Half Forests

Feicui Island is located in Changli county of Qinhuangdao City (must-see during your China vacation deals), with an area of 7 square kilometers, and three sides surrounded by the Bohai sea and seven-mile sea. Feicui means emerald in English, the island is just like a beautiful emerald deep in the sea. Rumors has it that looking down the isalnd from the above, the sea water would reflect the shining jade green color, just like an emerald. It is also among the 7 national ocean natural reserve zone lists.

About the seven-mile sea, there is an interesting folk story. Once upon a time, back to the age when seven-mile was still a closed lake. People besides the lake lived a happy life tilll one day, an evil dragon in the lake want to take over the place and ease away all the people in the villlage. People started running for their life only one brave guy stayed. He had a big fight with the eveil dragon and finally won. Then he turned into a unicorn and he used his corn digging a hole connecting the Bohai sea and seven-mile sea. Life was back to peace but the brave young man died. Since then, people began to name the spot as the New Opening for China travel service.

More than 68 kind birds are inhabit on the island, some are national precious kind. For those birds lovers, this could be the perfect spot to watch birds and enjoy the beauty of nature . There are so much sceneries on the island, the soft dessert is really something to look at. Rolling sand hills with really nice gold color is everywhere, the highest spot of whichis around 44 meters. Standing on top of the sand hill and looking at the green trees with bird flying and chirping, white clouds and blue sky above, if there isn’t a land of joy, I don’t where it is.

Feicui Island has enjoyed a good reputation for its soft and smooth sand. It would be crazy if you don’t take a nice walk in the sand with bare feet. As the growing business of the tourism, you can have more fun with sand now. It is the Sand Sliding (interesting activity for your China Holidays). You would sit on a skateboard from the mountain top, with both hands on the edge of the board, feet touching the board front, body slightly leaning then slide down. Then it’s getting faster and faster, your adrenaline might rise up a little but it’s an awesome feeling for sure.

Want to experience some tradtional Chinese therapy? You got it. They have sand therapy with various trational Chinese herbs like rhizoma Gastrodiae in it. The therapist would spray them on a ceratin hurting spot then apply soft sand on it, by doing this, the blood circulation gets better. It works great for lower back pain, neck pain and other pain caused by arthritis. I take a shot on my knees, after the therapy, they do feel better.

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Travel Guide - Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve of Chongqing

Tangjiahe Nature Reserve is located in Qingyuan County of Chongqing City (starting point of Yangtze River tour). Apart from the picturesque landscape, Tangjiahe also boasts many beautiful mythical tales and the realistic natural scenery, which is indeed an enchanting place to visit all year round. Meanwhile, the beauty spot is also an important staging post for bird migration between tropical and temperate region, which is certainly more unusual in our country.
As a result, Tangjiahe Nature Reserve has significant value of preservation, research, education and ecology. Tangjiahe natural protection area as the national level nature reserve in the forest and wildlife type could take the giant panda and its natural habitat as the key protection objects, which has been known as natural gene pool, life homeland as well as the green pearl of Minshan mountain ranges.

Tangjiahe Nature Reserve is located at the foot of the northeastern foothill of Minshan Moutain (optional for last minute China travel deals) on the northwestern margin of the Sichuan Basin. Neighboring Baishuijiang natural protection area of Gansu Province in north, Dongyanggou provincial-level nature reserve of Qingchuan in east and Pingwu County of Mianyang City in south, Tangjiahe Nature Reserve is an important part of major habitat for the giant panda in the Minshan mountain ranges.

It had been classified as an AAAA natural protection zone by WWF, one of the most hot spots of global biodiversity. The preserve is located in the transitional region from the northern end of the Hengduan Mountains to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It had never developed the broad areas of ice sheets during the active period of the fourth glacial stage. Thus many old species had been preserved perfectly.

The high mountain and valley area along the northern part of Longmen Mountain had the highest peak with the altitude of about 3,837 meters above sea level and the relatively high altitude of over 2,400 meters. The complex and varied terrains and landforms with ridges and peaks rising one after another are cut intensely. The preserve belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone with the warm and moist climate as well as the plentiful rainfall.

With a large number of beautifully preserved nature landscape, obvious vertical vegetation zone spectrum, it had become a natural habitat for rare and precious animals and plants. According to one survey, the higher plants in the area are over 3,100 kinds, and the rare tree species include davidia involucrata, Chinese tulip tree, Eucommia ulmoides and many more. The vegetation displays the typical vertical distribution.

The coniferous and broadleaf mixed forest zone and dark subalpine coniferous forest zone at elevations between 2,200 and 3,200 meters, with thick forest and dense bamboo grove are the suitable habitat and breeding area for the giant panda (most of them can be seen during your China Sichuan Tours).

Within the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, there're abundant cultural landscape with many passes and forts that are easy to defend and hard to break down. Thus it's the hotly contested spot of military strategist through the ages. The colorful customs and habits as well as the deep gulf and valley in the native place and the idyllic pastoral scenery of the little town could form the unique ethnic folklore.

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Learn the Chinese History of Paleolithic Age

The Paleolithic or ‘Old Stone’ Age began with the first use of stone tools. During this period, primitive people lived in caves, used stone and bone tools and wore fur and leather clothes. They were hunter gatherers. The Paleolithic Age began about 3,000,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. According to theory, the Paleolithic can be divided into three periods – low, middle and late, which follow the evolution of men including Homo erectus, earlier Homo sapiens and later Home sapiens.

About 1,000,000 to 500 000 years ago, there were primitive human beings in China such as Yuanmou Man in southwest Yunnan province (must-see for China travel deals), Lantian Man in northwest Shaanxi province, and Peking Man, in Zhoukoudian of Beijing according to archaeological findings. Two events made a great impact on the lives of primitive people at that time. Firstly, the making of primitive stone tools helped people collect foods directly from nature for efficiently; secondly, the use of fire, which was of profound significance in the evolutionary development of human beings. 

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Learn the general knowledge about Huangshan

When you talk about Huangshan, there are two concepts involved. One is the Huangshan City (enjoy its beauty via Huangshan tour packages), which is situated in the south of Anhui Province. The other is Huangshan Mountain, which is located in the municipal territory, but 64 kilometers from city center.

Huangshan City is a region with a long history and splendid cultures. Shexian and Yixian Counties were established more than 2000 years ago. In the Jin Dynasty, Huangshan City was called Xin’an Shire. Until the Song Dynasty, when the name was changed to Huizhou, the city was famed for Hui businessmen, Hui carvings, Xin’an school of painting, Xin’an medicine, Hui architecture, Hui cuisine, and Hui operas. Also notable are the scenic spots of Yellow Mountain (must-see during your Huangshan travel) - a key point of interest in ancient China, the Tangyue Memorial Archway, The Tunxi Ancient Street and the ancient villages of Yixian County. Historians at home and abroad regard Huangshan City as natural history and culture museum of China. It has under its jurisdiction three districts (Tunxi, Huangshan, and Huizhou) and four counties (Shexian, Yixian, Xiuning and Qimen), which cover much of the area used to be known as Huizhou.


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Learn some cultural elements about Anhui

Opera and Culture
The north of Anhui province is the old watercourse of of the Yellow River and the south is the Huai River Basin affordable China tours. It is the intersection of two Chinese cultures. Local operas are abundant with a long history. There are over 20 existing operas. The most influential and popular operas are Huangmei Opera, Hui Opera, Lu Opera, Sizhou Opera, Southern Anhui Flower Drum Opera, Huaibei Flower Drum Opera and Huaibei Opera.

Fine Food
Hui Cuisine of southern Anhui is the main representative of Hui Cuisine. Hui Cuisine is famous for cooking delicacies. Hui Cuisine uses ham to add more flavour, crystal sugar to emphasis freshness and makes use of roasting and stewing, with precise cooking time. “Stewed Head and Tail” “Stewed Black Carp Tails” and “Pickled Fresh Mandarin Fish” are traditional, famous and popular dishes. The Wuhu, Anqing and Hefei areas are representatives of cuisine along the Yangtze River Yangtze River tour. The cuisine along the Yangtze River is famous for cooking fresh fish and poultry. The representative dishes are “Yangtze River Shad” and “Wuwei Smoked Duck.” The representative dishes can be found in Bengbu, Su County and Fuyang, along the Huai River. The Cuisine along the Huai River is salty and spicy and the sauce is thick, colorful and full of flavor. It is typical to use coriander for flavouring or decorating the dish. The famous dishes are “Red-Cooked Chicken, Fuliji Style” and “Stewed Longsnout Catfish with Milky Soup”. The most popular local dish in Hefei is “Stewed Salty Duck with Soy Beans”. Cuozhen Town in Feidong County of Anhui is famous for “Spicy Dried Beef Jerk with Five Spices Flavor”. This beef jerk is strongly spicy with a bit sweet flavour.


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Explore the beautiful Shajiabang Reed Marshes Scenic Spot

Shajiabang reed marshes scenic spot has become a demonstrative base of education in patriotism in the country, the national hundred red tourism classic tourist attraction, national AAAAA grade of the tourist zone and one of the largest ecological wetland in the East China area for China travel service. Shajiabang reed marshes scenic spot is located on approximately 6,000 hectares by the beautiful shores of the Yancheng Lake Kunshan, Jiangsu province, with the most convenient traffic.
The scenery area is abundant with tourism resources including the majestic natural scenery, historical relics and superior ecological environment. Thus it has many superior conditions suitable for tourism exploitation. Many functional areas like revolutionary tradition education zone, aquatic plant appreciating area, Hongshi folk culture village, reeds maze on land and water and delicacy shopping area have been set up in the scenic beauty.
The four colors travelling in Shajiabang like the red education tourism focusing on traditional education, green ecology tourism centering in visits and vacations, golden delicacy tourism featured by tasting marine products and spectacular movie and television culture with the ancient town culture as the highlight had enjoyed the high reputation throughout the world. The Shajiabang reed marshes scenic area was so famous because of, a Beijing Opera and has become a must for a vocation in Changshu. So you can consider it after your travel to Shanghai.

The Hengjing old street is the water country base for the movies had further enhanced the supporting capacity of red tourism; reinforce the ornamental and educational features of the tourist spot. The Zhanyang square occupied a ground space of 13,300 square meters. At the center of the square stood the impressionistic and large-scale statues created around a series of images, which vividly revealed the subject of the deep affection between the army and the people as inseparable as fish and water.
With the block shapes and sharp skin texture effect contrast, the 18 sculptured pillars that symbolized the sick and wounded of the New Fourth Army displayed to the fullest extent the revolutionary spirit of no bending down even in overwhelming force for the sick and wounded of the New Fourth Army.
The reeds active zone is the nucleus of the whole scenic spot, which is divided into two area including water reeds maze on land and land reeds maze, crisscrossed river port and dense reeds, which had formed the watery or land space with various features like being broad, long narrow, tranquil and secluded, as well as irregular.

These individual mazes could provide the visitor during China Holidays with the perfect place to seek the rustic charm and experience the reed marshes scenes of the New Fourth Army. The farmhouse garden is another glaring achievement of the reeds active zone. The waterwheel, ox wagon, windmill, farm boats displayed a finished enjoyment of farmer living.

Hongshi village is a comprehensive expression of buildings with elements featured in the lower reaches of Yangtze River (on which you can enjoy the beautiful view during your Yangtze River tour). These buildings nestling the water had different features. The waterside pavilion and loading bridge leaded the visitors to the thicket of aquatic plant in the adjoining aquatic plant appreciated spot. The picturesque scene was a feast for the eyes.

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Natural Beautiful Spots in Chaohu

Baoshan Cave Natural Beautiful Spots in ChaohuBaoshan Cave is a limestone cave. The diverse scenery is known as “the most unique and wonderful in the Jianghuai region”. There are three layers with 18 areas and 86 scenic spots in this cave. The total area is 400 square meters and 500 meters deep.


Jilong Mountain
The shape of Jilong Mountain is like a cage. The Taoist called it “The 42th blessed place”. It is also known as the top famous mountain in the northern area of the Yangtze River (enjoy the view along the banks via Yangtze River tour). There are loads of tall old trees in the woods covering the sky. You will feel like being in a green ocean.

Ziwei Cave
There are two well-shape exits in this cave. Accordingly, Ziwei Cave is also called Double Wells Cave. It is 3000 meters long and the main cave is 1200 meters. It is a typical underground river cave and the shape of cave is like a corridor.

There are 10 great caves, 36 main scenic spots and 72 second scenic spots. You can travel by the foot first and by boat later on. Ziwei Cave is formed by the perennial underground river erosion. The water sources are both groundwater and surface water. There is a Wang Qiao Cave next to Ziwei Cave. The name came from Wang Ziqiao who was secluded here during Zhou Dynasty. Wang Qiao Cave is the only cliff cave in Anhui (famous travel destination after travel to Shanghai). There are about 600 small Buddhist statues inside the cave.


Half Hot Spring
Half Hot Spring has both hot and cold springs. The temperature of the spring is about 55 degree centigrade. The spring can used for bathing and drinking. The water quality can compete with the top 8 mineral water companies in the world. The water from this spring can cure over 50 diseases, especially for locomotive system, nervous system and skin diseases. So don’t miss this place during China vacation deals

There are outdoor hot spring pools, tennis courts, a bowling center and a gym in the Half Hot Spring Spa Resort. Golf courts, a nursing home, a holiday resort and hotels are going to be built in the future.

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Travel Guide - Baochan Mountain & Yingping Mountain

Baochan Mountain
Baochan Mountain has unique landscapes due to orogeny. It has been a famous tourist attraction since ancient times. The original name of Baochan Mountain was Hua mountain (an optional destination for your affordable China travel packages). The current name Baochan came from the monk Hui Bao in Tang Dynasty. He traveled the Hu Mountain and was buried here.

Huayang Cave is the main the scenery in Baochan Mountain. The cave is 1600 meters deep with 10 main area and 102 scenic spots. There are front cave, back cave, sky cave and ground cave. There are cave and rivers inside the caves. The caves are connected and you can have a boat trip in China travelling through those caves. The front cave has text “Huyang” and “Everything we see is non-existent” carved in the stones. The back cave is also called “Inscription Cave”. The poet, Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote an essay “Travel Baochan Mountain” about this travel route of the back cave.

Yinping Mountain Yinping
Mountain is in the south of Chao Lake City. The name “Yinping Mountain” comes from a big rock in the mountain. This big rock is silver color and looks like a vase. The Fairy Cave is well known for exquisite flowers, strange caves, unique woods, ancient temple, famous pagoda and tall pavilion. It is said that the deities Cui Ziran and Lu Dongbin were enlightened in this place for your China Photographing Tours .

There are an exquisite flowers on the rock of the Fairy Cave - Yinping White Peony. It is called “the most exquisite flower in the world”. Before and after the “Grain Rain” period, the peonies are in full bloom. It is said that the numbers of peonies will predict the annual weather. Going to see the peonies in the Yinping Mountain becomes a custom for the locals in Chao Lake for thousands of years.

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Feature Historical Destinations in Huangshan Area

Xidi
Xidi (must-see for China vacation deals) is an ancient village with a thousand year history. It reserved over one hundred perfect architectures of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is known as the “Museum of Residence of the Ming and Qing dynasties”. The shape of Xidi village is like a boat. The Hu Wenguang Arch in the front village is like the sail and the Ginkgo tree in the western village is like a mast. The ancient building inside the village is like the boat body. The famous scenic spots are “Lvfu Tang” and “Da Fu Di”

Hongcun
Together with Xidi, Hongcun (don’t miss during your China Photo Tour ) became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The village is arranged in the shape of an ox. Leigang Hill is the head of ox and two ancient trees standing on it are the horns. Moon Lake can be seen as the stomach whilst the South Lake can be the tripe. The ditches can be seen as intestines whilst the houses of the village are the body. Four bridges are the legs. The whole village is like a leisurely ox standing among the mountains.

She County: Huizhou Ancient City

She County was called Hui State Government in ancient times and located in the south Anhui. It is bordered by Huangshan to the north, Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province to the east and Qiandao Lake to the south. It was the political, economic and cultural center in ancient Huizhou. She county is described as on of the “top four renowned ancient towns in China” along with Langzhong, Lijiang and Pingyao.

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Learn something about Xinghua Village

Xinghua Village (consider it for your China vacation deals) is the most unique historical and cultural village and located on the west of Chizhou. The famous poet Du Mu was the former provincial governor in the late Tang Dynasty. He traveled to Chizhou in spring and wrote the poem “Qingming”. “It rains a lot in the Qing Ming Festival. People feel confused and lost in their life. I asked where I can find a pub. The shepherd boy point the direction of Xinghua Village”. Xinghua village started to become famous since this poem was written.

There are such attractions for your Student tours to China as Xinghua Village Arch, Xinghua Village Ancient Well Site, ancient houses along the street, Huanggong Wine Clay, Tiefo Temple, West Temple, ancient pubs, Tang style villages and monuments in Xinghua Village. This village has the style of southern Anhui and late Tang Dynasty. It represents the culture of food, wine, and poetry of Tang Dynasty.

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Travel Guide - Laohutan Ocean Park

In the main part of the the southern part of beach of Dalian China travel deals, Laohutan Sea Car park is the greatest contemporary lido in China suppliers with a finish place of 1,180,000 rectangle metres (about 291 acres) and a shoreline of more than 4,000 metres (about 13,123 feet). In the Car park, many wonderful organic areas and huge man-made attractions can be seen. As a contemporary ocean park, Laohutan Sea Car park is one expert one in travel and leisure, entertainment, purchasing and so on and is seen as the Dalian people's preferred park.

Measuring an place of 15,700 rectangle metres, the rectangle was developed in an infrequent form. Lions statue, developed by the popular China artist Mr. Han Meilin, is the picture of Laohutan Sea Car park. The shaped tigers are 35.5-meter-long (about 116 feet), 6.5-meter-high (about 21 feet) and 6.5-meter-wide and took Mr. Han two years and nine several weeks to finish this great work. The Lions Sculpture Square is the most eye-catching among many pieces in Dalian What & Where to buy in China.

Now,Polar Area Underwater Creatures Globe is the only one that has the marine animals at best and one that most roundly displays the finish animals. Here you can not only see unusual finish animals like beluga whales, sea otters, sea hippo but also other animals like charming whales, charming penguins, finish holds, etc. In the 2,000 chair efficiency area of the Fish tank, these creature celebrities give amazing efficiency every day. All of these bring you into the wonderful empire that is ocean world and experience the animals getting on well with humans. And ,you can encounter the cool cold and the finish lighting in finish atmosphere. At the same time you can also understand the information about the finish ocean world.

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Trace the history of Shu Country at Sanxingdui Museum

In Chengdu China tour videos sightseeing, Sanxingdui Museum, also known as Three-Star Piles Museum is a hot destination, which is situated northeast of Sanxingdu archeological site, west of the famous cultural city of Guanghan, on the bank of Jian River (usually known as Yazi River), 40 kilometers (approximately 24.9 miles) north of Chengdu City.

This relic area extents for about 12 square kilometers (around 4.6 square miles), making it the oldest, largest, and most connotational Shu cultural relic in Sichuan. Legend has it that the Heavenly Emperor cast down three handfuls of earth which fell near the Jian River, turning into three earth mounds on Chengdu Plain. The three earth piles, were depicted as three golden stars in a line, hence the name Sanxingdui. Affirmed by modern archaeology, the three earth mounds of Sanxingdui Relic are in fact the southern wall of an ancient city built with earth. There are two breaches in the city wall, with time passing by, after several time's collapse and subsequent erosion, presenting the appearance of three mounds we see today.

The discovery of the Sanxingdui Relic was accidentally, it is in the spring of 1929, when a peasant found a piece of bright-colored jade whilst digging ditch. That was the catalyst to the discovery of the mysterious ancient kingdom, from then on, 400 jade items were successivly excavated.

Later, from 1933, systematic excavations of archeological work in Sanxingdui Relic spans for half a century. The relics excavated proved the development of culture from late Neolithic Age (7000 BC-5000 BC) through to the late Shang (16th - 11th century BC) and to the early Zhou Period (11th century BC - 711 BC).

Sanxingdui Relic last minute China travel deals was estimated even of possibility to be the capital of ancient Shu since it has a history of more than 3,000 years. With the discovery of Sanxingdui, the veil of Shu was finally uncovered and the blankness of bronze culture in Chinese archaeological history was lastly padded. In the following decades, several generations of archaeologists worked in succession on the Sanxingdui site and they accquired a lot. Among all their findings, the two sacrificial pits found in 1986 is the most striking.

In the end, more than 1000 cultural relics were unearthed, including a golden veiled head portrait, which is a 260-centimeter (around 102.4 inches) tall and 180-kilogram (around 396.8 pounds) bronze figure, a 142-centimeter (around 55.9 inches) long and 500-gram (around 31drams) golden staff, and also a big bronze mask with more than 10 centimeters (around 3.9 inches) bulging pupils, a big Yuzhang (a kind of jade adornment of the leader of a tribe, the symbol of power) and two ears spaced at 168 centimeters (around 66.1 inches). Of all these cultural relics, some are apotheosized and mysterious, some are realistic, and some are of primitive simplicity but all of them are quite impressive, even aroused worldwide attention.

Sanxingdui is a cultural relic of ancient Sichuan China Sichuan Tours, called Shu then, the excavation of which greatly changed people's understanding of ancient history and culture. Want to visit a place to know more about Chinese Shu (Sichuan) culture, do not miss it, for the civilization revealed by the cultural relics can really be called a wonder.

The discovery of Sanxingdui Relic is heart-stirring though some cultural relics remain mysterious.The unearthed cultural relics have affirmed ancient Shu is no less developed than the Central Plain and to some degree, it can also be regarded as the most representative cradle of Chinese civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. In a word, Sanxingdui Relic is an indispensable factor to grasp the development of history and culture in Sichuan, and even the southwest area of China as a whole. Some cultural relics can not be named as the archaeologists have never seen their ilk before, which also add some mysterious color to Sanxingdui.

The exhibition area encompasses around 4,000 square meters (nearly 1 acre), opened to the public since October 1997. It is an archeological museum while at the same time, there are quite a lot excellent modern facilities. Most of the cultural relics you can see in the museum were excavated from the Sanxingdui site, thus to know more about Sanxingdui site can certainly help to know more about the museum.

So as to better keep and exhibit the cultural relics, the museum is divided into four sections, each of the four sections has its own theme. Totally, there are over 1000 pieces of cultural relics from Sanxingdui Relic and the two sacrificial pits of Shang Period, including gold plate, bronze ware, jade articles, pottery and ivory.

All in all, it is a good place to master the history of Shu and also an area to experience the profound culture of Chengdu, China.

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Travel Guide - Wenchang Pagoda

Histiory of Wenchang Pagoda
When the ChinaChina vacation deals was dominated by Feng Shui, the art of positioning building, graves or furniture, which was believed to bring positive or negative effect to the ones' life, most area of China had some building built according to this "science", including this pagoda. This seven-tier hollow Wenchang Pagoda was said to bring scholarly honor and advancement in one's career according to the explanation of Feng Shui. 'Wen' in Chinese means knowledge and 'Chang' means prosperous, when combined, it means the prosperous knowledge is made. As everybody has the wishes to enhance the capability of thinking, many of these kinds of structures were built in ancient China.
Features of Wenchang Pagoda
Also known as the Wenbi Pagoda Student tours to China, this Pavilion-Style Pagoda is a seven-storied octagonal building in a height of 36 meters.
Besides, there are many small doors in the shape of octagon. The doors facing north and south serve for decorative artificial pruposes, while the doors facing east and west are for ventilation purpose. The body of this pagoda is white while the corners and doors and red, giving visitors a feeling of plain but something unusual. While watching from distance, this pagoda looks like seven inverted lotus flowers, the flowers take on the smaller, the higher, with a dark red calabash at its pinnacle. Besides, from the top, looking southward, you will have a wonderful panoramic view of Beihai city.
Location
Wenchang pagoda China Photographing Tours was built in the year 1613 in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), located about three kilometers (about two miles) from Hepu County.
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Explore Bagong Mountain

Bagong Mountain (an optional destination for your Huangshan travel) cover an area of 200 square kilometers with over 40 peaks and ancient springs. The famous springs are Xiyun Spring, Yulou Spring and Lanxiang Spring. There are Bagong Xian Pavilion, Bagong Mountain Park, Sun Family Garden, Nantang Natural Swimming Pool, stone forest, bamboo shoot, and Shimen Lake. The most spectacular and priceless treasure is 500-600 million year Paleontology Fossils Group.

Bagong Mountain has beautiful scenery with rich history. According to legend, Huainan Liu An practiced Chinese alchemy with his eight friends here. Bagong Mountain was named after this story. There is a Pearl Spring on the east of Bagong Mountain and Huainan Liu An used this spring water to make “Huainan Tofu”. There is another legend “When a man becomes immoral, even chicken and dog can go to heaven”. According to the story, when Huainan Liu An and his eight friends succeed in making immortality pills and became immortal, they left some pills in the dish. A chicken and a dog at pills and became immortal and went to heaven as well. You can learn some Chinese history here during your China Educational tours.

The famous battle “Battle of Fei River” had happened here. In 383, the Former Qin general Fu Jian attacked Xie Shi, Xie Xuanyu in Bagong Mountain. The Qin army was defeated. The general Fu Jian was panic and had illusion and saw every tree as a soldier. Bagong Mountain Tofu and its soy products have good reputation in history. It is worth trying the “Tofu Feast” in Bagong Mountain.

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Another Ancient Wall - Shou County Ancient Wall

Shou County was called Shouchun in ancient times. It is located in central Anhui and in the key position of Huai and Fei River (another famous city besides Yangtze River where you can enjoy the beautiful view by joining Yangtze River tour) area. Many important battles in Chinese history took place here. The former Qin army had “the battle of Fei Water” with Eastern Jin army here in AD 383. Some historical stories are from this famous battle, such as “throwing a whip to the river and the river stop slowing” (Tou Bian Duan Liu) and “When People were panic, they had illusion and saw a tree as a soldier”.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Later Zhou Dynasty army had a big battle with the Southern Tang army in Shou County. The general Zhao Kuang Yin of Later Zhou Dynasty was trapped in Shou County in the beginning but won the battle in the end. The award-winning traditional cake “Shou Xian Da Jiu Jia” was named after this story.

Shou County Ancient City Wall China travel deals was one of the top seven ancient walls which preserved well in China. The existing wall was built in the Song Dynasty with a checkerboard layout of a Song Dynasty city. Shou County Ancient City is rigid and magnificent. It has a circumference of 7141 meterss and is 8.3 meters tall. It is boarded by the Hao river to the southeast, Fei River to the north, and Shouxi Lake to the west. There are four gates and each gate had dikes to protect the city.

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Travel Guide - Wulingyuan Scenic Area

Located in northwestern Hunan, the Wulingyuan Scenic Area consists of three parts: Zhangjiajie National Park China tour deals, Suoxiyu Nature Reserve and Tianzi Mountain Natural Reserve, covering a total area of 350 square kilometers. Being a complete quartz and sandstone geomorphological structure, Wulingyuan boasts some 3,100 peaks (of which over 1,000 rise at least 200 meters), which look like bamboo shoots: spectacular and grotesque, lofty and elegant. It is a real wonder to have such a large forest of natural peaks on the several hundred-meter-thick quartz and sandstone base. This, plus the mysterious deep valleys and grottos, offers fantastic views.

In dense forests Student tours to China covering over 90 percent of the scenic area grow rare species of trees and inhabited by rare species of birds and animals. There are also streams, brooks, springs, lakes and waterfalls. Zhangjiajie, in particular, is rich in forest resources, featuring both virgin and artificial secondary forests. It is home to some 3,000 species of high-grade plants of which 35 are rare species under state protection. There are also 116 types of animals living in Zhangjiajie, the first national park in China.

The Wulingyuan Scenic Area was listed as a world natural heritage in 1992.

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Travel Experience in Tiangtang Zhai

Taitang Zhai was called “Heng Mountain” or “Cloudy Mountain”. It was call “Tiantang Zhai” after the Yuan Dynasty. The changing scenery with four seasons here is like a “Paradise”. The perennial mist is covering the Tiantang Zhai (must-see during your China vacation deals). It is the best place to see sunrise and sea of clouds. If you come here at the right time, you can also see the color light of Buddha.

Tiantang Zhai is also “the sea of flowers and a paradise of plants and animals”. You can see Huangshan Pine, azalea, red maple, mixed forest, a secondary forest, high mountains, grassland, and bamboo forest. You can walk along the Xieyu Waterfall and pass through Shuijing Waterfall and arrive in the Niyu Lake. Niyu Lake is the habitat of giant salamanders with clear water. The biggest salamander was found here with 1.5 meters long and 26 kilograms.

Waterfalls and lakes are the main landscape in Tiantang Zhai for China Photography Tours . There are 18 waterfalls over 80 meters high. Longjing River is the main source water of the waterfalls No.1 to No. 5. Walking along the Longjing River, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery and refresh your mind.
In Tiantang Zhai, the best meal is to have farm feast and drinking some Small Hanging Wine. Farmers dug a diameter of 50-70cm, 30cm deep fire stove in their house. They hanged an iron pot above the stove and the pot can be lifted up and down easily. Family or visitors sit around the stove and keep warm.

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Wonderful Exprience to Splendid Zhaga Waterfall in Sichuan

Zhaga Waterfall is about 40 kilometers away from the county town of Songpan in Qiang Autonomous prefecture of Aba of today at the upstream areas of Mingjiang River Yangtze River tour. In the Tibetan language, Zhaga just means "the torrent in white rocks". Zhaga Waterfall is just one of two great landscapes of Mounigou scenic spot. Located at the foot of Zhaga Mountain, the altitude of the starting point in Zhaga Waterfall is about 3,270 meters, while its altitude of the landing point is about 3,176 meters.



Zhaga Waterfall China tour deals is about 104 meters in height and 35 meters in width. It is said to be the highest calcified waterfall in our country. The upper reaches of the waterfall is the lake, while its downstream is the stepped river bed. The water of the lake falls quickly from the large calcified steps in a series of cascades, flow down with rhythm through the three-staged calcified steps, swash against the huge sharp calcified towering cliff, and finally forms the waterfall on a monumental scale, and create a boom that reverberates for miles in the empty valley, as of ten thousand horses galloping ahead.



Zhaga Waterfall is one layers of piled waterfalls. The fine spray of water that permeates the valleys saturated high concentrations of negative ion of oxygen in the air, which makes you relaxed and refreshing. The waterfall rushed down from the calcified dike with the altitude of about 3,270 meters above sea level while raging loud, with turbulent current and the dashing sound of billows like thunders, through the three-staged brown khaki calcified steps with many twists and turns.



The swift current trotted forward unceasingly, popping up bubbles of spays and clumps of sparkle of water spray with each stride. The deep pool showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of falling water, the spray in the air from the waterfall was blowing in the wind. The drops of water streamed down from the waterfall, and could shine with such a supernatural radiance in the bright sunlight.



The waterfall and pool all seemed extremely beautiful and there was the incredible spectacle of "Its torrent dashes down three thousand feet from high; as if the Silver River fell from an azure sky." Identification by the professional geologists, Zhaga Waterfall is both the liquid waterfall and solid waterfall China Photography Tours.



This so-called solid waterfall is usually referred to as the fact that the river-bed of the waterfall is the calc-sinter one. The calc-sinter flow is just like the colorful liquid cascading down overwhelmingly as though a sea or a river had been overturned. But the water of calc-sinter waterfall is clear and shining.





Zhaga Waterfall is the calcified waterfall with the biggest fall that is currently found in China, which enjoys the fame as the first waterfall of China. The picturesque waterfall of the Zhaga Waterfall scenery area China travel video more often than not has the clear water as an inseparable companion. There're many scenic sights for your appreciating like Hongliu Lake that had the thick growth of patches of the juniper tamarisk.

Travel Guide - Beijing University Geological Exhibition Hall

The Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall affordable China tours, located in the campus of Beijing University, is the earliest museum of geological science in China. It used to be the exhibition room of the Geology Department of Peking University founded in 1909. By 1917, the Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall had collected more than 1,000 items of samples in the fields of paleontology, mineralogy, petrology, and structural geology.

In 1934, the Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall was completed, in which four exhibition rooms were set up, namely the Dynamic Geology Exhibition Room, the Paleontological Stratum Exhibition Room, the Paleobotany Exhibition Room, and the Mineralogy and Petrology Exhibition Room China Photographing Tours.

In 1952, all the samples in these Exhibition Rooms were moved to the newly founded Beijing Geological Prospecting College (now called the China Geology University in Beijing).

In 1955, the Geological Exhibition Hall was rebuilt in Peking University Student tours to China and started to collect various kinds of geological samples. Its rare samples include the trilobite, Maoming turtle, crystal pyrite cluster, orpiment calcite crystal cluster, stibnite crystal cluster, dolomite crystal cluster and the realgar monocrystal crystal with the weight of 225 grams.

The Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall covers a space of over 600 square meters, displaying ordinary geology, structural geology, paleontology, geological history, mineralogy, petrology, mineral deposit, and the minerals for arts and crafts.

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Beijing Travel Guide - Beijing Museum of Traditional Opera

The Beijing Museum of Traditional Opera is located inside the China travel deals Beijing Huguang Guildhall Chamber of Cultural Prosperity and Ancestral Hall of the Local Worthy.

The museum's various exhibits have distinctively artistic characteristics. On display in the exhibition hall are several dozen biographies, cultural relics, and costumes and instruments that trace the history of Chinese traditional opera. Stage photos of Peking opera masters in performance are also exhibited. The most precious exhibits include a picture of Shouyun Xuan Accepting Congratulations, the pass to enter the imperial palace issued to opera star Chen Delin, the imperial phonograph, four famous Peking opera fiddles, and the Liyan Pictorial, all of which are of high artistic value.

Inside the exhibition hall is the most eye-catching exhibit - an admission pass to the imperial palace issued to Chen Delin, by the Court Theatrical OfficeEducational tours in China. Chen Delin was an opera performance artist, and the foremost Qingyi actor at the end of Qing Dynasty. He was the inspiration of many famous opera artists, from Wang Yaoqing, to the Four Famous Female Characters (Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Shang Xiaoyun and Cheng Yanqiu). The pass was issued in the 25th year (1899) of Emperor Guangxu's Reign, when Mr. Chen used it to gain admission to and perform in the imperial palace.

The pass is 9cm wide, 15.5cm high, and 1.4cm thick, and has a hole through which to insert and tie a length of thread. On its face are two rows of characters: Court Theatrical Office, made in Guangxu 25. On the right is written: Student Chen Delin, aged 38, and on the left are characters describing the facial features of the holder: yellow, clean-shaven face. On the back appear the two characters that mean "waist tag." On the upper half are the vertical, gilded characters, "Issued by Office of the Imperial Household Department," and on the lower half appear the Manchurian characters: "Governor of Imperial Household Department."

Vividly depicting Chen Delin and his six famous students: Wang Yaoqing, Mei Lanfang, Jiang Miaoxiang, Wang Huifang, Wang Qinnong, and Yao Yufu, the picture of Shouyun Xuan Accepting Congratulations exemplifies the opulence of Peking Opera, and is of high cultural value China travel video.

The four famous Peking opera fiddles were made by Shi Shanpeng, the most famous Peking opera fiddle producer. Their sound was intended to imitate the voices and singing styles of the Four Famous Female Characters. Their excellent workmanship and superior quality of tone have won high acclaim within theatrical circles.

The Beijing Museum of Traditional Opera currently offers a range of activities, including performances, exhibitions, academic seminars, and foreign cultural exchanges. In addition, in the last week of each month, it holds a series of lectures on traditional opera, free of charge, every day at 2:00 p.m. During performances, both Chinese and English subtitles are screened, and there is also English and Japanese simultaneous interpretation.

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A Surprising Tang Dynasty Quadrangle Courtyard - Mingyueba Ruins

The Mingyueba market town ruins were situated about 78 km away from the new county proper of Yunyang China vacation deals. They were covered by wild reeds, shrubbery, Artemisia and creeping weeds. However, an archaeological team from the History Department of Sichuan University have dug out pits and ditches of different sizes, which look like trenches on a battlefield. Nearby, newly unearthed pieces of tiles, pottery and porcelain are laid out.

At the end of 2002, only one pit was made, measuring five meters in both length and width. Digging one meter deep, a building base appeared and further work brought to light a house site which was three rooms wide and two rooms deep. Traces show there were other buildings nearby. Further excavation led to two house sites at the east-west trend, where there were wing-houses on both sides of the former north-south house. While cleaning up the wing house ruins, archaeologists again found a new larger house base, sitting to the south of the first unearthed building base Student tours to China.

"This group of buildings looks like a siheyuan (quadrangle courtyard). We never expected to dig out a courtyard of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in this area," said Li Yingfu, associate professor of archaeology in Sichuan University and head of the work team.

Huang Wei, also associate professor from the History Department of China Sichuan Tours Sichuan University who is responsible for the salvage excavation of the Lijiaba Ruins, northwest of Mingyueba, said, "You never know what you get in archaeological work. One layer after another, the excavation arouses your curiosity. It poses new problems and then gives you answers. This particular site is like a magic box. When you open it, you see unbelievable things in succession. None of us thought we would stay here for years." He was invited to Mingyueba by Li to discuss the courtyard.

The case is the same for Li Yingfu. When he arrived in October 2000, he had planned to return to his own specialty once finishing the work, i.e., Neolithic archaeology. But the rich and generous finds in Mingyueba have retained him.

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