Travel Stories
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Zhangjiajie: A Honeymoon with China
The beauty of this park is that, although vast, it forms but one of Zhangjiajie's many attractions. But owning the lion's share of sandstone-quartz pillar mountains, it does count as a priority....
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A Great Green Escape - Discovery Jiasa
Green paddy dancing in the afternoon sunshine, short plantain trees standing quietly along the streets, flourishing bamboos bending to kiss the stream, Huayao Dai women wearing beautiful ethnic...
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Weekend at Zhongshan Park, Feel the Old and the New of Shanghai
This weekend was a dry one, you see. Lady and I decided to spend most our time outside, so we took subway line 4 to Zhongshan Park on the northwest side of town. Saturday was still a little chilly...
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Tangjiahe and Jiuzhaigou: A Return to Nature
Explore the Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, home to a breadth of animals, including the endangered Golden Monkey, Cloud Leopard, and Giant Panda.
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Light of the Tibetan Realm - Greater Lhasa and Dorjeling Trek
With its rich heritage, captivating display of spirituality, and stark evocative landscapes, the diverse attractions of Tibet are constantly vying for a travelers' attention.
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Journey Across the Wild Frontier Western Sichuan to Yunnan
The wild, untamed scenery of Western Sichuan, with average elevations often exceeding 3,000m, regularly evokes the Chinese proverb: "The sky is high and the Emperor is far away." In many respects,...
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Yuanyang, Where All the Clouds Are Coming From
Yuanyang County of Yunnan Province is well-known for its spectacular rice-paddy terracing, splendid cultures of various ethnic groups, and colorful ethnic festivals; therefore it is called the...
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Discovering Beijing by Bicycle
As an out-of-towner on a bicycle, trying to fight four city buses for the same lane, my life flashed before me outside the gates of the Forbidden City. With Chinese subtitles.
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Beijing, China: My Kind of Town
Now the throbbing heart of China and the world’s biggest construction site. Seven hundred years ago, Beijing was capital of Kublai Khan’s Mongol Empire, which at its peak stretched to the...
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Walking China's Great Wall
How did an invading army breach this extraordinary barrier, we wonder, as we march in single file through the cornfields of northern China and cast our eyes upward towards our first goal....
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Hot Destinations
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Some startling discoveries of human remains were found in...
Great Wall Museum Beijing
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Located in the south-west of the Tibet Autonomous Region...
The Everest National Nature Reserve
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Lingyin Temple (simplified Chinese: 灵隐寺) is a...
Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou
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The spring lies at the foot of the Mingsha Sand Dune and...
Crescent-Moon Spring
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As the world's deepest canyon, the Yarlung Zangbo Grand...
The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon
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Located on Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in China, Huangguoshu...
Huangguoshu Falls
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