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China - Beautiful People, Beautiful Country
If you have any desire to visit China, DO IT! The food is wonderful, the attractions are amazing and everything is very different in a good way...

Budget Travel Tip for China
One of the best ways to make your money go farther in China is to exchange money on the black market where you will receive a rate 5-15% higher than what is offered by the state-controlled banks...

Enter The Dragon
China is the one country which has been an inspiration for many communist country to have rules and regulations as well as extensive growth...

Fun and Exciting? Yes. Slow and Relaxing? No
The question is not whether you should go. The answer is yes. The question is, can you handle the daily inconveniences and do it on a shoestring, or should you just join a tour group and let the tour operators shield you from it all...

Tips for China Travel
Going to China was a complete shock. I knew about it from a decade and a half of my uncle's storytelling. But the only way to experience something is first-hand...

The Value Cherished by Chinese People
Chinese believe that only after you have found the harmony between the inner and outer world, you can reach the eternal immortalisation of your life. Better understanding this, you can understand the people better...

Beijing Travel Stories

Back In The Day - Experience of the Forbidden City
I have been to the Forbidden City three times. Each time I was astounded at the scale and grandeur of the place...

Beijing Land Only Tour
Beijing is a wonderful city. It is much cleaner, friendlier and modern (while maintaining it's historic sites) than I had anticipated...

Of Five Capitals of Orient, This Was the Best!
We took a Travcoa tour - Capitals of the Orient. This trip was first class all the way, but Beijing was the best...

It's Not A Good Wall, It's A Great Wall!
Great Wall visit provided us with adventure, thrills and laughs! It's a spectacular place, one of the seven wonders of the world, and the only structure on earth visible from space...

China: A Country of Greatness
My advice is that if you are ever anywhere near the Simatai Great Wall make sure to have it a priority. You will not be disappointed...

Good Morning, Beijing
Like a movie reel, images from the past year fly by and I see the countless people who have befriended me, assisted me and have gone out of their way to make my stay in their country a positive one...

Shanghai Travel Stories

Shanghai - A City Looking Forward And Backward
I visited China and Shanghai for the first time in June 00. I found it to be a schizophrenic, wonderful, baffling, fascinating city...

Shanghai, Great Place To Start!
Our trip began in Shanghai. Our guide in Shanghai, David, spoke excellent English and was very friendly.

Shanghai, New Face in Three Years!
Shanghai is a very good first stop in China. It's very modern and can ease a traveler into the Chinese heartbeat.

Shanghai: Pheonix of the Orient
When I finally reached Peoples Square in the heart of Shanghai after a crushing ride on the speedy subway, I could only stand and look all around me at the magnificent and creative buildings that were trying to outdo each other in beauty and grace...

Sichuan Travel Stories

Chengdu: A Great Town To Spend A Few Days In
When I was in China, I went to Chengdu three times and I must say it is a great place to spend a few days...

Chongqing, Biggest City On Earth
Chongqing China has more than 30 million people living in the city. Admittedly, the city did re-draw the lines, but there is no question that it is an unbelievably populated place...

Xi'an Travel Stories

Fantastic Land
Our visit to Xi'an started with the 2,000 year old statues of the Terracotta soldier museum...

The Terracotta Warriors
The first thing on our minds when we got to Xi'an was to try to organize a trip to the Terracotta Warriors. This was after all our main reason for coming to Xi'an in the first place...

Other Places

Hangzhou - Most Beautiful City in China
One of the most poetic city in China is Hangzhou. Endless number of poems, ancient literature were written about the city...

Suzhou, Heaven On Earth
In Chinese, there is a famous sentence to describe the beauty of two cities : Above there is heaven, down here there are Su and Hang. Honestly speaking, this ancient sentence describing the two cities is not overstating at all...

A Non-polluted Li River In Guilin
Guilin is well-known for the breath-taking scenery on the banks of the Li River. But few realised that the beauty of the river itself lies in its non-polluted state with its crystal-clear water...

Qingdao
Of all the places to live and work in China, Qingdao is by far the best...

Winter's Journey to Harbin
The people of Harbin, with lots of ice and lights and wind-whistling nights, have taken advantage of their harsh climate and surroundings by creating a quirky winter wonderland...

Yachting the Yangtze
Anyone even thinking of visiting China should do so within the next three to four years. Once the Yangtze Dam is completed and the water begins to rise, one of the most lovely and interesting spectacles of the country will rapidly sink beneath the rising waters...

Yangtze River and Gorges
The Three Gorges were truly a highlight of our visit to Asia. The Yangtze Paradise was comfortable, the food was good, and the crew was excellent without exception...

Yellow Mountain
I went to Yellow Mountain twice already. And it appears in my dreams many many more times...

Fascinating Lhasa
I would definitely recommend visiting, as much for all of the natural beauty surrounding Lhasa as the social enigma that is the capital city itself.