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My Silk Road tour – Heading for Dunhuang, the Gem on Silk Road

2020-03-19 | China travel Guide | Comments(0) |   Views:(57)

Dunhuang, one of the most brilliant cultural cities on Silk Road, it is famous in the world for its Mogao Mogao Grottoes and desert, Dunhuang city is just surrounded by Gobi and desert, so Dunhuang is also known as the City of Sands or Shazhou (sandbank) due to its long expanses of sand dunes and golden shiny houses.

Slow down, and enjoy the life

2017-06-23 | China travel Guide | Comments(0) |   Views:(1490)

Chengdu is a city which is suitable for living, you can play mahjong in the People’s Park, sit in a teahouse and watch a Bianlian Show, or go shopping on the Chunxi Pedestrian Street. After your first time in Chengdu, I’m sure that you would like to discover it more.

24 Billion Yuan - Take Your Guilin Tour to the Next Level

2013-12-20 | News | Comments(0) |   Views:(952)

On December 15, the Wanda Group signed an agreement with the municipal government of Guilin, plans to invest 24 billion yuan building a mega cultural tourism city of Guilin. It is so far the largest tourism investment in Guangxin Zhuang Autonomous Region and will greatly improve the quality of China tours to Guilin.

Garden-style Hotels in Guilin

2013-12-10 | China travel Guide | Comments(0) |   Views:(930)

When you are planning a China tour, hotel arrangement would be naturally considered. For after spending an entire day on a China tour, a good night’s rest is especially important. Recently more visitors prefer staying at family-style or garden-style hotels rather than in larger star-rated hotels. In picturesque Guilin there are some beautiful garden-style hotels which offer an excellent environment, services and amenities. The best of these hotels are the Guilin Yi Royal Palace and the Guilin Zizhou Four-season Resort.

Featured Inns of Beijing Flavor in the Hutong Nanluoguxiang

2013-04-03 | China travel Guide | Comments(0) |   Views:(1231)

Almost all visitors who have lived in Hutongs of Beijing will take a fancy to Chinese quadrangle courtyard and old Beijing culture. For them, to go deep into Hutongs, the past memories and traces of Old Beijing, is the only way to a real Beijing. Nanluoguxiang (南锣鼓巷), or South Luogu Lane, a hutong built 700 years ago in Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), has become a popular haunt for both domestic and foreign travelers today with many distinctive bars, stores and galleries.

A Bite of China- hot and peppery taste and Sichuan Cuisine

2012-10-11 | China Food | Comments(1) |   Views:(1285)

Dreamlike Bamboo Rafting on Li River Organized by Guilin Tianyuan Company

2012-08-23 | China travel Guide | Comments(1) |   Views:(1012)

A bite of China- Power of Time on Cured Meat

2012-07-19 | China Food | Comments(0) |   Views:(944)

Time, the sworn enemy of food, sometimes is also the friend of food. Although we have obtained diversified ways to preserve food by means of modern technology, such old methods as pickling, air-drying, fumigating and salting had once unexpectedly brought us different and sometimes even unrivalled taste of food, which is the taste of time. Even to these days, those cured food still have a strong impact on people’s daily diet. Here I will talk about two cured meat that is popular in South China especially in Hunan Province – bacon and salted fish.