Dear Travelers, We’d like to have the following travel guide to be always updated for the benefit of new visitors coming to Xian from Beijing by high-speed train. If anybody having used the piece finds necessary updates, please leave a message or feedback. Thanks! ________ Plan your Beijing Xian tour? Basically you may go visiting…
Beijing is a mega-city with populations of more than 20 million, a marvelous mix of modern living and old fashion manners. It is a challenge to decide what to see and what to do in Beijing with so many sightseeing and historical places. Here is our choice of the top 5 things to do on…
Quite Different from Beijing & Xian The navigation of Shanghai is exhausting mainly due to the random city layout of Shanghai. Shanghai is quite different from Beijing and Xian whose city layouts are based on the former imperial grid patterns as ancient capitals in successive dynasties. See the grid-like Xian city layout. Shanghai Layout But…
Plan your China tour? Are you thinking of the tipping policy in China? To tip or not to tip in China is a question which has confused many foreign visitors. Those against tipping in China argue that China has no tradition of tipping; those for tipping in China think that China is changing and tipping…
Plan your Shanghai tour? Cruising on Huangpu River is a must-do activity on your first trip to Shanghai. A great city tends to have a great river. Like Seine River in Paris, Shanghai has a river known as Huangpu River winding from south to north entering Yangtze River. While Paris is bisected into Right Bank…
Plan your Shanghai tour? If you want to feel and have a glimpse of a traditional China old town after seeing too much glamor of the metropolitan Shanghai, Qibao Ancient Town (七宝古镇), a tiny water town would be a nice alternative if you cannot make it to other water towns like Zhujiajiao Water Town, Zhouzhuang Water Town and Tongli…
Yesterday afternoon, nearly off work time around 6:00pm, I decided to go to Shanghai for urgent family matters the next day. The normal reaction was to book a flight from Beijing to Shanghai. But the high speed rail Beijing Shanghai changed my mind set. I would like to try the newly opened Beijing Shanghai High…
Ice skating is a traditional winter pastime for the local Beijing people. If you are scheduled to visit Beijing in winter, specifically in the coldest two months from later December through the early February, you may go to Shichahai Skating Rink (什刹海滑冰场) for winter ice skating fun in Beijing. Actually Shichahai Skating Rink is mainly…