The fish-village-turned-metropolitan Shanghai has much more to offer than the hot tourist attractions such as the Bund, Pudong Skyline, Yuyuan Gardens & Bazaar and Shanghai Museum. I have rounded up 10 of the best non-mainstream attractions to help you get the real feel of Shanghai just like a local and plan your own Shanghai tour. These non-tourist hot spots could be a road, a museum,…
Plan your Shanghai Tour? Shanghai is the largest city in China. There are many exotic and unusual things to buy in Shanghai which make wonderful souvenirs and gifts for relatives and friends back home. If you are wondering what to buy during your Shanghai Tour, the flowing is a listing of top 10 souvenirs in Shanghai…
Plan your Luoyang Tour? Visiting Luoyang Museum is highly recommended. The location of Luoyang Museum has changed three times, originally built inside Guanlin Temple in 1958, and in 1970s moved to the city center of Luoyang and now located south of Luohe River in the southern Luoyang. The new Luoyang Museum was open to the…
Plan your Shanghai tour? Shanghai is a shopping paradise, with various bustling commercial streets and shopping centers beckoning the visitors. Shopping malls in Shanghai are most fashionable inside country as Shanghai is the window of modern China. No matter you are shopaholic or not, it is rewarding to visit the top shopping malls in Shanghai….
What does the Bund mean in Shanghai? The word “Bund” is an Anglo-Indian word for embankment of a muddy waterfront. It was brought by the British from India. The Bund was originally the towpath for dragging barges of rice on Huangpu River in Shanghai. From the mid-19th century onward, the area around the Bund became…
The Bund is one of the best spots to allow you to catch the mesmerizing evening views of Shanghai. People flock here in the evening for the glimpse of the surreal neons and lights exuded from futuristic skyscrapers on the east side of Huangpu River and the concession-era art-deco buildings on the west side of…
Xian is well-known for its world-famous Terracotta Warriors over 2000 years back lying about 30 km east of Xian city center. There is much more to see in Xian which once served as the ancient capital cities for the historical 13 dynasties with connected periods of over 1000 years. Known as “The City of Chang’an ”…
Plan your Beijing Spa tour? One of the popular attractions are the hotspring resorts dotted around the outskirts of Beijing. Most of the hot spring resorts are clustered around Xiao Tang Shan in Changping District of Beijing. The waters from these hot spring resorts are believed to be therapeutic and a soak or a sip…