Plan your Shanghai tour in November? November is a transition month from the colorful autumn to the bleak winter in Shanghai. For an avid leaf peeper, November is the good time to catch the autumn hues in Shanghai. It is getting colder in the later half November and the tourist volume is getting thinner. Some…
Plan your Shenyang tour? Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province, boasts its own Forbidden City, imperial tombs, resourceful museums and several parks as well as impressive mountains. Shenyang is located about 700km to the northeast of Beijing by road. It takes one and half hours to fly from Beijing to Shenyang. I’ve rounded up…
Heilongjiang (黑龙江) literally means “Black Dragon River”. It is China’s northern most province, named after the same name borderline river separating China and Russia – Heilongjiang ( Known as Amur River in Russia), hence the name. Its proximity to Russia has given Heilongjiang Province much influence from Russia in the manifestation of architecture, food, culture…
Plan your Beijing tour? Beijing is the capital city of China that has seen huge change in the past 30 years. Many of Beijing’s impressive buildings such as Forbidden and Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests in Temple of Heaven have existed for centuries. Two decades ago there were no such modern architectures as the…
Plan your Northeast China Tour? Northeast China is popularly known as 东北 (Dongbei ) in Chinese and historically as “Manchuria”. It is mainly composed of China’s northmost three provinces including Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. China’s Northeast is famed for skiing, sledding and skating and all winter activities and playing snow at Xuexiang ( China Snow Village). Actually there…
Plan your Inner Mongolia Tour? The exotic Sino-Russian border city of Manzhouli (满洲里) is one of the big draws in Inner Mongolia. It is a laissez-faire border city where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses from China to Russia.Manzhouli has the mixed folk customs originated from the three countries including China, Russia and Mongolia and a blend of Chinese and Western…
Moerdaoga National Forest Park 莫尔道嘎国家森林公园 The Moerdaoga National Forest Park is the first national forest park in the Greater Khingan Range (Greater Xing’an Mountain ) within Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is the biggest national forest park of its kind in China. “Moerdaoga” literally means that “Set out for battle and Ride your horses” that…
Plan your Inner Mongolia Tour? In the boundless grassland there is a beautiful city of Chifeng (赤峰), where you will find appealing food, fresh cityscape, queer peaks and troves of ancient relics. It is worth your exploration for 3-7 days. Chifeng is located in the Eastern Inner Mongolia, an important destination in Eastern Inner Mongolia…