Champs-élysées to Paris and Oxford Street to London are what Nanjing Road to Shanghai. Nanjing Road, billed as “China’s First Commercial Street”, is the most well known shopping and leisure street in Shanghai. The east-west Nanjing Road is generally sectioned into Nanjing East Road and Nanjing West Road. Nanjing East Road is now a traffic-free…
Approx. 80 km northeast of Beijing city center, Pinggu District is home to the world’s largest peach orchard with about 11,000 hectares of peach trees. Pinggu features totally 218 kinds of peach trees with 4 species of yellow peach, white peach, nectarine and peento. Pinggu peaches are big in size, sweet in taste and brilliant…
Plan your Beijing tour in May? May is one of the best months to visit Beijing weather-wise, a transit month between short spring and long summer in Beijing. The Weather in May in Beijing It is neither hot nor cold with average high 25 ℃ and low 15 ℃. So generally it is very comfortable in May,…
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Plan your Beijing tour? Aside from so-called highlights in Beijing, it is advisable to add a common local park into your travel schedule to get a real feel of the local life. Taoranting Park is highly recommended. Taoranting Park (陶然亭公园）takes its name from a pavilion in the park known as “Taoran Pavilion” which is pronounced…
The Location of Meidaizhao Temple (美岱召) If you are planning Inner Mongolia tour, a side trip to Meidaizhao either from Baotou or Hohhot is highly recommended. Meidaizhao Monastery ( (美岱召) is located in Meidaizhao Village below the massive Daqing Mountain of the Yinshan Range, Tumd Right Banner, Dong He District, Baotou, Inner Mongolia. Meidaizhao Temple…
Plan your Inner Mongolia tour? On the west of Inner Mongolia lies Alxa League (阿拉善盟), also known as Alashan League. It is one of the 12 prefecture-level divisions in the administrative area of Inner Mongolia. Alxa League is still a mysterious and massive place admired by many adventurous travellers. Exploring Alxa League (Alashan League) is quite…
Elephant Trunk Hill Scenic Area Standing at the confluence of Li River and Taohua River in Guilin, Elephant Trunk Hill (象鼻山）is one of the iconic landmarks of Guilin, a big draw for its first-time visitors. As far as I could remember, many years ago people could come here for a free glimpse of the hill which resembled…