Only Private Pool Villa Resort In China. Banyan Tree Sanya Resort and Spa (Hainan, China)

The first to feature pool villas only. Each of the 49 villas has its own private garden, swimming pool and outdoor terrace table and seating. Inside, you’ll find a king-sized bed, plasma TV, separate living room and wireless Internet connection throughout.

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Everest Peak, Tibet

Everest (8,848m), the world’s first summit, is similar to an east-west arc of mountains, located in the middle of the Nepalese Himalayas on the border, Tingri in Xigaze Prefecture of Tibet south. Among the many rivers in the Himalayas erosion and cutting, the formation of many of the several thousand meters deep gorge channel, Tibet [...]

Yalong Bay (Hainan, China)

At the same latitude as Hawaii, Hainan is where mainland Chinese come to get that Waikiki feeling without leaving home. Near Sanya on Hainan’s southern tip, may lack Polynesia’s heaving surf and swaying skirts, its broad white beaches are better than many in Hawaii.

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Nanjiabawa Peak, Tibet

Mount Namjagbarwa (7782m) full of wonderful legends, because of its soaring peak, the local gods of the sky Legend has it often fell on their gatherings and Wei Sang, high-altitude winds caused the Qiyun is God who ignited the Sandinista tobacco, is said to There are Jingu Peak Road and Ten, living in the valley [...]

Yellow Mountains, Anhui

Huangshan, or Yellow Mountain, is located in the south of Anhui province in eastern China. Famous for its magnificent landscape - pine forrest, strange stone, cloud sea and hot spring. It is one of famous mountains in China. Yellow Mountain has 72 peaks with different dimensions. The three main peaks - the Lotus Peak, the [...]

Gonga Mountains, Sichuan

Tianwan Gongga Mountain River is the largest rivers, mountains and rivers turbulence, the momentum of the event, dozens of waterfalls and the, become a spectacular. Here is rich in geothermal resources, such as the large number of hot spring water, small hot water, medicine and other gods in the 30-70 C temperature hot springs are [...]

Meili Snow Mountains, Yunnan

Meili Snow Mountain is the most splendid, lofty and mysterious snow mountains in Yunnan. Its thirteen peaks are situated in the average attitude of 6000 Meters, were titled as “Prince’s Thirteen Peaks”. The main peak (Kagebofeng) stands out majestically on 6740m above sea level, is accounted to be the highest Mountain among Yunnan. The highland [...]

New eyes show Shanghai

Walking Shanghai is not without its obstacles. Sidewalks are often crowded not only with other pedestrians, but with bicycle parking lots, vendors and their carts, card players, laundry strung between doors and trees and motorcycles and bicycles zooming up and down the sidewalks as though they were extensions of the streets. But it is really [...]

Face Bar (Shanghai, China)

Set in a 1920s villa, Face Bar in the French Concession quarter is the place to sip a gin and tonic overlooking the lawn. Opium beds and French windows add to the colonial feel. A warm welcome, a secure stopping place and opportunity to talk, relax and drink. Go before 8pm for half-price drinks.

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Wudang Mountains, Shiyan-Hubei

Wudang Mountains, also known as Wu Tang Shan, are a small mountain range in the Hubei province. In years past, the mountains of Wudang were known for the many Taoist monasteries to be found there, monasteries which became known as an academic centre for the research, teaching and practise of meditation, Chinese material [...]

Pingyao, Shanxi

Pingyao lies about 715 km from Beijing and 80 km from the provincial capital, Taiyuan. During the Qing Dynasty, Pingyao was a financial center of China. It is now renowned for its well-preserved ancient city wall. The city walls of Pingyao were constructed in the 3rd year of the Hongwu (1370). The walls have six [...]

Huangshan, Anhui

The Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The area is very famous for its scenic beauty, which lies in the peculiar shapes of the granite peaks, in the weather-shaped Huangshan Pine trees, and in views of the clouds from above. The area also has hot springs and [...]

Potala Palace, Lhasa

The Potala Palace is located in Lhasa. It was named after Mount Potala, the abode of Chenresig. The Potala Palace was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India after an invasion and failed uprising in 1959. Today the Potala Palace has been converted into a museum [...]

Suzhou, Jiangsu

Suzhou is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze river and on the shores of Lake Taihu. The city is renowned for its beautiful stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction. Since the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Suzhou has also been an [...]

Bamboo Sea, Sichuan

Characterized by bamboo scenery, the Southern Sichuan Bamboo Sea covers an area of 120 sq. km with an elevation from 600 to 1000.2 m. In its central region, more than 5000 hectares of big tall and upright bamboo shelters 28 ridges and peaks high and low, 500 hills big and small. The place seems like [...]

North Daxing anling Larch Forest, Inner Mongolia

The Greater Hinggan, Lesser Hinggan and Changbai mountain ranges in the northeast are China’s largest natural forest areas. Major tree species found here include conifers, such as Korean pine, larch and Olga Bay larch, and coniferous-broadleaf trees such as white birch, oak, willow, elm and Northeast China ash. Major tree species in the southwest include [...]

Karst Forest, Libo-Guizhou

Since the discovery of the Maolan karst forest in Libo County, this rare and precious land has attracted many biologists,geologists and ecologists. They were so charmed by the karst peak-clusters, funnels and depressions, covered with primeval vegetation, they almost forgot to return. According to experts, the Maolan karst virgin forest is the only one of [...]

Popular Tree Forest, Luntai-Xinjiang

The huyang poplar forest near the desert highway at Luntai is my favourite place to visit. The Tarim Basin contains the world’s largest area of natural huyang poplar forest and this roadside forest of over 2,700 hectares is only a tiny part of the whole. The forest grows along the meandering course of the silt-laden [...]

Tropical Forest, Xishuangbanna-Yunnan

Xishuangbanna is the southernmost prefecture of Yunnan Province. The prefecture is nicknamed ” Aerial Garden ” for its luxuriant and multi-layered primitive woods and tropical rain forests, which are teeming with animals and plants. Renowned as a huge natural zoo, Xishuangbanna’’s rain forest and monsoon jungles provide a habitat for nearly 1000 species of animals. [...]

Chengyang Dong village

In Guangxi Province, there are several different ethnic minorities, including the Miao, Zhuang, Dong and Yao. Each lives in a different area of Guangxi. Sanjiang in particular is famous for the stockade villages built by the Dong ethnic minority. The Dong people also erect covered bridges with porches and pavilions which provide shelter even when [...]

Yongding Hakka village

The Hakka are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people who live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian. From China’s Fujian coast, it’s a grinding drive up narrow roads through villages built around exhausted coal mines to reach the remote mountains of Yongding. Morning mist clings to the slopes of dense trees [...]

Drink Grandmothers Tea

People of Zhouzhuang are very fond of tea. They drink it in a tasteful way, using ancient tea sets, boiling water in pottery or earthen Jars, bamboo slices or branches as fuel. They first wash the tea and then, several minutes later; pour on boiled water to guarantee the color, fragrance and taste. People used [...]

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal

The Grand Canal, or the Beijing–Hangzhou Canal, was a giant irrigation project of ancient China. With a history of over 1,400 years and a length of 1,794 kilometers it is one of the world’s oldest canals and is the longest man-made river in the world. The canal goes from Tongxian County, Beijing, in the north [...]

Song Brocade

As early as in the Qin and Han dynasties, folk artisans carried deep researches in brocade. In Tang dynasty, there was famous brocade in Suzhou . In Five Dynasties, there was splendid brocade of fine colors in Suzhou . Many pieces of brocade existed in the cultural relics excavated in Mount Tiger Tower , and [...]

The beautiful women-Xishi

Xishi (497 BC) was a legendary beauty of ancient China. She has been described as “equally charming in both heavy and light makeup”, “as appealing when she frowns as when she smiles”. Of her figure it has been said that “were she plump, you would admire her plumpness, were she thin you would admire her [...]

Suzhou Embroidery

Thread lanes, brocade mills, embroidery flower streets, etc., in the city. That proved the prosperity of Suzhou embroidery. Some lived by embroidering. Daughters in rich families were engaged in it as a way of killing time and melding their experiment. That’s how “popular embroidery”, “boudoir embroidery” and “palace embroidery” came into being. Suzhou embroidery in [...]

Eight Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou

The Eight Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou, with Zheng Banqiao as its representative, refers to the painters in the region of Yangzhou in the reigns of Kangxi and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Their paintings have strong personal character, breaking away from the restrains of that time. The style of their paintings has influenced a [...]

China Water Town Tours

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have been known as a paradise on earth since ancient times. They are featured by crisscrossing rivers and lakes, small bridges, running streams, small ancient towns, rural scenery, villages, classical gardens, winding paths and corridors, and green bamboo groves. The local accents are sweet and charming. Our trips will lead [...]

Shangri-la Tours

A Shangri-La tour will take you to places that resemble in many details James Hilton’s exotic Utopia. You will experience snow-capped mountains, green lakes, flowers and friendly local residents. Many of our trips have a strong cultural feeling. The primary focus may be the culture, classical sites or local markets.

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Silk Road Tours

The opening of the Silk Road has contributed greatly to the exchange and development of ethical and material civilization. When you are warmly entertained by local residents, watch their unique art performances or stroll through their bazaars, you will find their life style and customs simple and yet colorful, strange and intimate.

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Wuyuan village

Wuyuan is a county endowed with rich ecological and cultural beauty eulogized by some as the most beautiful village in China. Although the accommodation and transportation conditions are not good in some places here, you can’t be too critical when traveling in this sort of tourist attraction, with well preserved ecological and cultural relics. Wuyuan [...]

Zhaoxing Dong village

Zhaoxing Dong Village, the largest Dong village in China, is also called Qianhu (meaning a thousand households) Dong Village because about 1,000 households of Dong people live here. There are five sections in the village, namely ren (meaning benevolence), yi (meaning justice), li (meaning courtesy), zhi (meaning wisdom), xin (meaning faith). There lives one clan [...]

Tuwa village at Kanas Lake

Over 1,400 Tuwa people live by the beautiful Kanas Lake. Before Kanas was opened to tourists, they lived in an almost isolated world. Some scholars believe the Tuwa to be the descendents of old, sick or disabled soldiers left behind by Genghis Khan when he led his troops west. The inhabitants customarily live in Mongolian [...]

Dayangjie Hani village

Standing on a high mountain above the east bank of the Honghe River, you will be swathed in the rolling magic cloud sea of the Ailao Mountains. In the brief gaps when the clouds disperse, you can see the Honghe River in the deep valley below, thin as a winding thread, weaving its way through [...]

Rongchag Tibetan village

Rongchag is located in the west of Sichuan Province. The area is characterized by towering mountains, deep valleys and swift-flowing rivers. Scattered among the mountains below the snowline are Tibetan-inhabited villages such as Zhonglu, Pujiaoding, and Dazhai with their own distinct architectural styles. The stepped-back red stone houses, shaded by many different kinds of tree, [...]

Olympic Stadium, Beijing

Sports stadiums have long followed the enduring design of one of the original wonders of the world, Rome’s Coliseum. National Stadium in Beijing is an attempt to rethink the classic sports-arena layout for more ecologically correct times. The Swiss architects wanted to provide natural ventilation for the 91.000 -seat structure- perhaps the largest “eco-friendly” sports [...]

Central Chinese Television CCTV, Beijing

The design of the new Central Chinese Television (CCTV) headquarters defies the popular conception of a skyscraper - and it broke Beijing’s building codes and required approval by a special review panel. Two leaning towers, each bent 90 degrees at the top and bottom to form a continuous loop. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole [...]

Donghai Bridge, Shanghai/Yangshan Island

A key phase in the development of the world’s largest deep-sea port was completed when China’s first cross-sea bridge - the 20-mile, six-lane Donghai Bridge - was officially opened in December, 2005. Stretching across the East China Sea, the graceful cable-stay structure connects Shanghai to Yangshan Island, set to become China’s first free-trade port (and [...]

798 Art District

Dashanzi Art District is located in the northeast of central Beijing. The heart of a growing art and culture community in Beijing, 798 Space is the center and the biggest space that provide cultural, artistic and commercial activities in the area. It was designed by the East German’s architects in the Bauhaus style in the [...]

MO Bar (Hong Kong)

Just one step from the city’s haute couture and with a thrilling design this is a cosmopolitan catwalk of a bar. Fahionistas shop and drop, party goers meet for a sip of effervescence, night birds mellow with the last vibes, others simply watch Hong Kong’s colourful glamour. In the afternoon, MO Bar offers a delectable [...]

Amazing China

China the Middle Kingdom. For centuries the world’s richest and most advanced civilisation and now perhaps on its way to reclaiming that title. Belying its image as a homogeneous nation, China’s hinterland, and in particular its southern and western regions, is home to numerous vibrant minority cultures that add colour to any classic itinerary. China [...]

Forbidden City

Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is to the north of Tiananmen Square. Surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9,999 buildings. The [...]

Aqua Spirit

Drinking in the view at panoramic bar Aqua Spirit. This glam venue is one of Hong Kong’s hottest bars, due in no small part to its unbeatable location on the 30th floor of a Tsim Sha Tsui high-rise, soaring windows give an incredible bird’s-eye-view of the city. Circular booths shrouded behind strung beads, designer drinks, [...]

Victoria Park

One of the few parks in Hong Kong.  It’s a great place.  On Sundays you would be forgiven if you actually thought you were in the Phillipines.  Sunday is typically the day off for the city’s large population of (mostly Filipina) domestic helpers. Victoria park is a popular meeting place for them.  Victoria Park is [...]

7-11

These superb convenience stores are everywhere.  At last count there were more than six hundred 7-11s in Hong Kong and if you do not visit an area for a while, do not be suprised if, when you return, a new 7-11 has opened up.  In Hong Kong these stores also sell cheap alcohol.  You are [...]

Lamma Island

After seeing all the sights, you will have had a large dose of Hong Kong crowds. If you want to get away, you can try explore Lamma Island, then feasting on deep-fried squid. It is a small island still relatively quiet, with a few trails on it. And: no cars!! On it you will find [...]

HOMA (Yangshuo, China)

Nestled between a limestone peak and a pine forest, and featuring a unique sloping roof covered with grass, the hotel sits in harmony with its environment. The only Chinese hotel member of the prestigious Relais & Chateaux alliance, it offers guests a level of style and design never before available in China.

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Wet Market (Shanghai, China)

Offers the full spectrum of ingredients required for the intricacies of Chinese cuisine. Plenty of fish heads, eels, cow stomachs, and pig feet to get your appetite going.

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