China Travel Stories

Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(3)by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-26 3:00:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong Chengde

13 June - Datong

We waked up very early and in less than an hour of flight we arrived in Datong. Datong is a city of 3 million inhabitants, important for its coalmines and therefore a polluted city, but it is famous above all for the Yungang Grottoes (literally "Cloud Ridge Caves"), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In airport we met our likeable guide, Joan and the driver with a

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(2) by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-20 21:25:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong and Chengde

11 June - Xian

We waked up very early because we had to catch the flight to Xian at 7.20 a.m.. The departure was from the new Terminal 3, constructed for the Olympic Games and planned by the English architect Foster. The terminal is spectacular and efficient. It’s enormous, but spaces are well organized and you can’t get lost inside. Our flight leaved nearly 10 minutes befor

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(1) by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-20 21:09:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong and Chengde

Hallo! I wish tell you about my travel in China, It’s my way to repay the internet community, for all helpful information I have found in internet when I started to planning this travel.

Planning the travel

Why China? Travel to China has been from long time my dream and now I decided at last. My wife and my son (sixteen), obviously have been enthusiast. Having only 12 days

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Beijing, Xian and Yangtze Cruise

Date: 2008-9-28 1:28:00 by lucia Tags: Beijing Xian

We were walking downtown Xian. It's so hot you could fry rice on the pavement, which only intensified every dirty, rotten smell, which managed to emanate from every building and alley you passed. The odors were enough to gag you. Running from each building under a grate in the sidewalk, is a drain with god only knows what it contains. Hope you have a visualization . . . . .

As we steppe

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Adventuring Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an

Date: 2008-4-14 22:43:00 by lavender0108 Tags: Xian

As an old Chinese saying goes: "If you want to see China of 100 years ago, visit Shanghai; China of 1000 years ago, Beijing; China of 2000 years ago, Xi'an.", Xi'an is an ancient city with a long-standing history and is known for being the capital city for 13 dynasties. It is also the jumping off point of the famous ancient Silk Road and the most important city in northwest China. Xi'

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