Beijing has five royal altars left from Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911) including Tiantan ( the Altar for the Heaven, also known as the Temple of Heaven), Ditan ( the Altar for the Earth, also known as the Temple of Earth), Ritan ( the Altar for the Sun, also known as the Temple…
Plan your Beijing Tour? The Temple of Confucius and the Imperial College Museum is worth your exploration for 1-3 hour. The two adjoining attractions – Confucian Temple and Guozijian (The Imperial College) have coalesced into one museum renamed “Confucian Temple and Guozijian Museum” since June, 2008. If you are interested in Chinese culture and traditional…
Planning your Great Wall Tour in winter? You may have been told that winter is not the right season for visiting Great Wall, but for whatever the reasons, you happen to hike the Great Wall of China during the cold season, so you are now a bit on the fence about visiting the Great Wall. Well, everything…
Fragrant Hills Park is a big draw in Beijing. It is formerly an imperial garden at the foot of the Western Mountains in Haidian District of Beijing. It is located 9 km to the west of Summer Palace and 25 km to the northwest of Beijing city center. It covers an area of 160 acres…
Plan your Beijing winter tour? Skating is one of Beijing’s traditional pastimes in winter. There are a few lake-turned skate rinks with a total skating area of 1000,000 square meters in Beijing. Summer Palace is a big draw for first time visitors to Beijing. The Kunming Lake Skate Rink in Summer Palace is the largest in Beijing totalling…
At 8:00am we start for Ruoergai Grassland (our first destination today) from Labrang Civil Aviation Hotel in Xiahe in Gannan Tibet Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province. The 280km drive takes about 3 and half hours largely along the National Highway 212. Ruoergai Grassland is located in the north of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture…
Plan your Chengdu Tour or Sichuan tour in autumn? With Chengdu as its capital city, Sichuan Province is located approximately on the latitude of 30 degrees with a distinctive four seasons. The people in Sichuan are lucky to be able to appreciate the pleasant visual stimuli brought by the change of the four seasons –…
Plan your Jiuzhaigou tour? Jiuzhaigou, aka Jiuzhai Valley National Park is a nature reserve in the north of Sichuan Province, well known for colorful lakes, waterfalls, Tibetan villages & rare wildlife. It takes one and half hours’ drive from Jiuzhagou to Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport, which brings you back to Chengdu for a one hour’s flight….