http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 92) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 1 Sep 2011 3:55:00 GMTsamshenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/yellow-mountain/Yellow Mountain is a blend of the majesty of Taishan Mountain, the ruggedness of Hushan Mountain, the cloud of Hengshan Mountain, the flying waterfall of Lushan Mountain, the bizarre rock of Yandangshan Mountain and the beauty of E'mei Mountain. Mt. Huangshan is famous for its four supreme sights: strange pines, grotesque rocks, the sea of clouds and hot springs in the world. It has the reputation of being China's strangest mountain. In 1990, Yellow Mountain was added to the list of...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 6171) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 3 Jan 2011 23:35:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/tachuan/Tachuan Village, which is also named Tashang, is situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain and is only 2 kilometers away from Hongcun Village of Anhui Province in China. Tachuan is a glamorous intermontane village and has been celebrated as one of the most picturesque villages in China. Besides, Tachuan Village in Anhui, Fragrant Hill in Beijing, Kanas in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Miyaluo in Sichuan Province become known as the four marvelous scenic spots with the most beautiful autumn ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 185) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 1 Dec 2010 5:55:00 GMTleomagichttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/jiuhuashan-mountain/Mount Jiuhua is located in the Qingyang County of the Anhui Province and covers more than 100 square kilometers in area. The Shiwang Mountain, the main peak, is 1342 meters above sea level. Mount Jiuhua is full of waterfalls, streams, exotic-looking boulders, ancient caves, old pines and exuberant bamboo. With the richly variegated landscape, the ancient temples are tucked away amid the dense woods, and the air reverberates with the tolling of the bells at dawn and dusk. With 99 peaks, 16 ridges...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 94) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 20 Apr 2009 18:33:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/hongcun-village/Hongcun Village is situated at the southwestern base of Yellow Mountain (Huangshan), about 11 kilometers southwest of the city of Yixian, the seat of Yi County.* Present-day Hongcun Village covers a total area of some 30 hectares, while the old village covers only about 2/3 of that area. Hongcun Village was founded in the Shaoxing (CE 1131-1162) period of the reign (CE 1127-1162) of Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song (CE 1127-1279) Dynasty, giving it a history of about 900 years, though the vi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 93) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 22 Sep 2008 18:09:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/xidi-village/Looking like something right out of a fairy tale, Xidi Village is almost too picturesque to be real, yet this ancient Chinese village is so genuine that it has received protective status as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site (November, 2000); Xidi Village is not just a preservation-worthy relic from China's cultural past, it is a preservation-worthy page from the cultural history of mankind. Xidi Village is situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain's (Huangshan's, shan meaning mountain) southe...]]>Tue 22 Sep 2008 17:15:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/food/crab-shell-yellow-fried-cake/ is in fact a meat--vegetable-filled pastry that can't justifiably be compared to its dour-looking Russian half-cousin, the pierogie, as it is more akin to the baked-in-a-form British meat pie (though it might be favorably compared to the pirozhky served in the famous-in-Seattle Pirozhky-Pirozhky fast-food Take-Away Restaurant in Seattles Pike Place Market, whose staff, incidentally, look suspiciously Chinese... from Huangshan, I presume?). ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 155) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 22 Sep 2008 16:22:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/food/smelly-mandarin-fish/In spite of its provocative name, Smelly Mandarin Fish, the 200-yr-old world-famous-in-China Hui Cuisine dish (Hui Cuisine, of Anhui Province in the southeastern part of the country, is one of the eight major cuisines of China), isn't smelly at all in fact, it is very tasty, with a mouth-watering, slightly sweet aroma. The dish is made of preserved (in salt) mandarin fish, a fresh-water fish which, instead of scales, is equipped with a covering of thick mucus which exudes a pungent odor, prote...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 144) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 21 Sep 2008 23:31:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/product/huangshan-maofeng-tea/To the uninitiated, all Mao Feng (Furry Peak) teas are created equal. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Huangshan Mao Feng Tea, formerly called Huangshan Cloud Tea due to the height at which it is grown on Huang Shan, or Yellow Mountain (i.e., at altitudes of over 700 m), and probably best known as Yellow Mountain Furry Peak tea, is the third-best Chinese green tea, and the fourth-best tea in all of China (the two best Chinese teas being green teas, while the third-best Chinese tea is act...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 147) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 21 Sep 2008 20:45:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/product/tunxi-green-tea/First, a word on what distinguishes green tea from its more common sister, black tea... Tea, or the product that is plucked as leaves from the tea plant, or camellia sinensis (think of Meryl Streep in the role of Karen Blixen, the Danish-cum-Kenyan tea plantation owner during the first quarter of the 20th century in the Hollywood film, Out of Africa), is the same whether it forms the basis of green tea or black tea. The difference lies in how the product is processed. Black tea is all...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2728) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 17 Sep 2008 19:57:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/bao-family-garden/Once the largest private garden in China, the Bao Family Garden was originally the private property of a wealthy Chinese businessman in Anhui Province. The garden was maintained and expanded by generations of the Bao family from it's inception during the Ming (CE 1368-1644) Dynasty through to the Qing (1644-1911) Dynasty. The Bao Family Garden is neighbor to the Tangyue Memorial Arches, a row of seven towering archways erected along a meandering stone path, each arch dedicated to the memory of a...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5876) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 16 Sep 2008 21:37:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/west-sea-grand-canyon/The Xihai, or West Sea, Scenic Area offers some of the most beautiful, most enthralling landscapes on Yellow Mountain. Covering some of Yellow Mountain's most prime scenery, including the West Sea Grand Canyon itself, the V-shaped West Sea Grand Canyon tour presents the visitor with some spectacular, if not breath-taking sometimes quite literally, panoramas as well as views of a number of unique and bizzarely shaped rock formations with imaginative nicknames such as Upside-Down Boot, Lady Playi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 145) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 4 Sep 2008 5:06:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/product/huizhou-chrysanthemum/Huizhou chrysanthemum is an excellent breed of the chrysanthemum varieties. It is one of China's four famous chrysanthemums, the other three being Hangzhou white chrysanthemum, Chu chrysanthemum, and Bo chrysanthemum. Function Huizhou chrysanthemum can be used to brew tea and wine by first drying it in the sun to create a purely natural drink. Drinking chrysanthemum tea can help one rid ones body of heat, moisten the liver, refresh and make ones eyes brighter, clean the five viscera, eliminate...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 96) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 4 Sep 2008 4:47:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/nanping-village/Nanping Village, located in the southwest part of Yixian County ,is a town with broad scales and a thousand years history. Nanping Village still preserved 300 ancient buildings of the Ming and Qin Dynasty. Kuiguang Hall, Xuzhi Hall are magnificent halls, while Shensi Hall and Bingling Hall are simple, elegant dwelling houses. In Wang Song Ling , ancient trees line up to the sky , ancient bridge lies down silently. There are seventy-two ancient alleys, crossing one after another within walls and ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 171) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 4 Sep 2008 4:26:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/tangyue-stone-arches/Composed of 7 arches, the Tangyue Memorial Archway Group is located on the road at the entrance of the Tangyu village in the west of Shexian County. Without using any nail or rivet at all, the Tangyue Memorial Arch Group is all made of high quality green stones produced in Shexian County. The skillful combinations of stones are astonishing. In addition, there are a large number of beautiful Hui carvings around the body of the arches. Among The Tangyue Memorial Arch Group, three of seven are m...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 547) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 29 Jul 2008 4:13:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/shop/dragon-well-market-in-huangshan/Located in Beihai North Road, Huangshan District, the Dragon Well Market has a construction area of 4,195 square meters, including a trading shed of 1.588 square meters, 360 stands. The market is well arranged, spacious, and elegantly shaped. The market mainly engages in wholesale of agricultural and sideline products, plus the catering and service trade....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 548) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 29 Jul 2008 4:13:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/shop/huangshan-tea-city/Mt. Huangshan is a famous tea producing area in China, tea from this area is well known overseas for the high quality of green-tea, such as Huangshan Maofeng which is regarded as the top ten green-tea of China. Huangshan Tea City is the largest and highest tea trade center in south Anhui Province. You can not only buy every kind of tea but can also experience tea culture first hand in tea history hall; you can have a tea taste at tasting tea hall and appreciate tea ceremony in any of the existin...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 549) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 29 Jul 2008 4:13:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/shop/tunxi-ancient-street/Tunxi Ancient Street is the most distinctive street in Huangshan. Tunxi Ancient Street is situated in the center of Tunxi District, at the foot of the Mt. Huangshan, the location of Huangshan City Government. The street starts in the west at Zhenhai Bridge and ends in the east at the Memorial Archway. It is paved with maroon flagstones with a total length of 1,273 meters (about 1,392 yards), of which 895meters (about 979 yards) is the pedestrian commercial street. In this ancient city some of ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2088) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jul 2008 2:31:00 GMTandy yenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/restaurant/chao-gang/Huangshan Chaogang Food Corporation is founded in 1992. With the development of past years , it has had more than 16 directly-managed stores and become an industry-leading level of production plants. It is one of the Food chain enterprises to provide Main Chinese Western-style pastries, cakes, bread, drink and all kinds of beverages and refreshments. It is a wonderful place for young consumers to go shopping, consume and relax. It's a baker's shop and a resturant with variety of beverage and lo...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5877) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 24 Jul 2008 5:00:00 GMTlifenghttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/attraction/chengkan-village/Located in the She County, Huizhou District, Anhui province, Chengkan Village is famous for its residential architectures which were built during Ming and Qing dynasty. The village originally started in the Three States period of Eastern Han Dynasty. It has and a very history of more than 1700 years. It now still has kept the layout of the former village. And the water network which was set in Ming Dynasty and was deigned according to the theory of the Book of Changes formed this village a myste...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 671) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/huangshan/bar/circle-screen-cinema/The circle-screen cinema is the only circle-screen cinema in Anhui province at present. It has1, 700 square meters of floor space and can hold more than 200 people at the same time. The hall of entertainment is a building as a symbol. There are 3 floors. The total area covers about 4,000 square meters. In the hall, Main items for entertainment are rock-climbing, throwing small missile, shooting arrow(can hold national and international games), Sauna, giving facials, doing hair, coffee house, was...]]>