http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1464) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:27:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/overhanging-great-wall/The Overhanging Great Wall was an extension of the Great Walls starting at the Jiayuguan Pass prorogating a long distance to the north becoming an integral part of the ancient defense system of the Jiayuguan Pass. The construction of the wall commenced in 1539 and underwent restoration in 1987. It was made from compounds of gravel and loess. At present only 750 meters of the original 1,500 meters of the wall remains standing in the desert. After the restoration there are now three signal-fire to...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2855) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:25:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/the-first-mound-under-the-heaven/ SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1563) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:19:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/great-wall-museum/The great Great wall as the primary exhibition is composed four sections: the Great Wall in Chun Qiu and Zhanguo period (a period of chaos, battling warlords and endless warfare); the Great Wall in Qing and Han Dynasty (a period of unification and prospering); the Great Wall in Sui, Tang, Liao and Jing Dynasty (a period of power and splendor in all areas: economic, political and cultural development), and the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty (a declining period facing severe invasions from Mongolia a...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1716) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:12:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/heshan-stone-carvings/Rock carving is one of the oldest fashions of painting; it was a spontaneous way for the ancients to depict the surrounding environment. The Heshan Stone Carvings are one of the kinds. They are a few meters elevated from the hillside of the valley. Although vary in magnitude, they generally stretch out from 0.2 to 2.4 meters long and 0.3 to 3.0 meters wide. The carvings are incredibly simple yet vivid and intensively expressive. The carvings that centered on humans revealed ancient lives from...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3299) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 14 Aug 2008 4:47:00 GMTandy yenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/restaurant/jiayuguan-nosy-garden/With great effort and endless progresses, people there built a special restaurant-Jiayuguan Nosy Garden in the mighty desert. Jiayuguan Nosy Garden is a pseudo-classic restaurant. Constructed with the theory of Eight Diagrams ( Bagua is used in Fengshui to find out which part of your home or office correlates to a particular situation in your life. ), there are 27 private dining room in it. In the middle of Jiayuguan Nosy Garden is a multi-function hall with ancient and modern ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5923) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 14 Aug 2008 4:10:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/imitating-ceremony-of-going-out-for-battle/The activities in Jiayuguan are full of local and historical features, such as riding horses and camels. And among them, the most valuable thing is attending the imitating ceremony of going out for battle. The ceremony, which is held officially, is celebrated at the foot of the gate of impregnable Jiayuguan pass. As a frontier fortress of ancient China, in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiayuguan was one of the most important strategic fortifications. So, the opening and closing of the Jiayuguan gate...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3306) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 14 Aug 2008 3:58:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/restaurant/jingtielu-food-street/This street offers over 30 kinds of snacks from all over the country such as Beijing dumpling, Tianjing steamed stuffed bun, Lanzhou beef noodles, Xinjiang button yakitori. Try to taste the barbecue offered over the various food stalls.. It is said that people there roast anything except wool. what the most worth mentioning food is Shao Kezi. It is the traditional wheaten food in the local countryside. It tastes delicious....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3302) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 14 Aug 2008 3:50:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/restaurant/babaili-goose-heaven/According to Chinese medicinal books, goosemeatcould not only warm your stomach, nourish the liver and kidney, give you a good appetite but could also keep your eyes bright. The protein content of goose ranks at the top among all livestocks. Babaili Goose Heaven is famous for its geese dishes. The raw material are indigenous natural and pollution-free. Whats more, it is also popular for the fashion-green dishes. With comfortable atmosphere and first class services, Babaili Goose Heaven is alway...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3303) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 14 Aug 2008 3:46:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/restaurant/datanglu-food-and-entertainment-cultural-street/Datanglu Food and Entertainment Cultural Street is one good place to eat in Jiayuguan. The street can offer customers specialties from different places of China. Different kinds of entertainments are ready for different needs. The street is spacious and the restaurants there are full of local characteristics. Whats more, there are large parking lots behind the street; temporary parking spaces are in front. All the constructions are built in a European style which makes the west customers feel ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 579) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 10 Aug 2008 21:01:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/shop/night-street/The most distinctive shopping street is the night street in the downtown area near the walking street in Jiayuguan. There are many vendors who sell Stone Carvings, assorted Carpets and Ink stones. What is more, these vendors also provide many fascinating souvenirs which are made locally....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1918) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 10 Aug 2008 9:55:00 GMTlifenghttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/product/fresco-rubbings/The fresco rubbings which copy the fresco patterns in the tombs of Wei and Jin Dynasties are colorful, elegant and delicately decorated. The frescos are complicated and show sophisticated painting skills and methods of ancient people. Historically and artistically, the fresco patterns in the tombs of Wei and Jin Dynastis are one kind of the most comprehensive representatives of Jiayuguan and also play an important role in China painting history. Ancient Chinese began to portray their daily life...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 578) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 10 Aug 2008 9:24:00 GMTlifenghttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/shop/friendship-store/Friendship Store is located in Xinhua Bei Road in Jiayuguan city. This store provides as many as more than 2000 kinds of goods like jewelleries, calligraphies and paintings, local-produced seals, Jiayu inkstones, camel's wool paintings, the four Treasures for a Study (writing brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper) as well as tourist practical products and so on. These arts and crafts goods here which are of creative design, refinement appearance and high quality are very popular with people, espe...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 577) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 10 Aug 2008 8:49:00 GMTlifenghttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/shop/jiayuguan-walking-street/Jiayuguan walking street is situated in the center of downtown in the south of the city. The street is filled with different kinds of stores. The total length of this street is 400 meters from east to west and the total breadth is100 meters from south to north. This street occupies an area of 61000 square kilometers. There are a variety of goods that can be purchased, most are very popular with the Chinese as well as foreign visitors. The well-known specialties here include Yeguan Cup (Night Gli...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1919) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 4 Aug 2008 21:47:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/product/water-melon/The water melons produced in Jiayuguan is big in size and thin in peel. Their flesh is sweet and tasty. They are sold in a dozen of provinces....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1917) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 4 Aug 2008 21:45:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/product/jiayu-inkstone/Jiayu inkstone is made of the stones taken from the mountains, which are the ideal materials for making inkstones. It is moisty and colorful. Even though there are carved patterns on the inkstone, it still looks simple and unsophisticated. The making of inkstone has a history of about 1700 year. It is one of the local treasures of art products....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1916) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 4 Aug 2008 21:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/product/yeguan-cup-(night-glittering-cup)/Yeguan Cup has been well-known since ancient China. It gets its name because when it is filled with wine, moonlight is able to penetrate into the cup and makes it glittering. In the reign of King Muwang of Zhou Dynasty, the local rulers in west China once presented Yeguan Cups to the court. This is recorded in the book Haineishizhouji (The Ten States in China) written by a famous writer Dongfang Shuo of Han Dynasty. According to the book, the cup is made of white jade and it is glittering during...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2856) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 4 Aug 2008 21:34:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/fresco-tombs-of-wei-and-jin-dynasty/These fresco tombs were discovered in 1972 and ten of them have been dug up. Most of the dug tombs are family tombs in which the dead family members were buried together. They are made of bricks and there are usually 2 or 3 chambers in it. The chambers are linked together by arched slope passages. The doors inside a tomb have paintings or carved patterns and floors were paved with bricks with patterns on them. On the brick walls there are frescoes. These tombs are known as the underground painti...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2857) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 4 Aug 2008 21:32:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/the-qilian-mountain/Introduction to the spot: In the Qilian Mountain, there exists virgin forest, which covers an area of 157,000 hectares with wood reserve of about two million cubic meters. The plants there include spruce, cypress, poplar and willow, and various shrubberies. The Qilian Mountain is one of the major forest zones in Gansu Province. In the dense trees and snow peaks herds of deer can be seen....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1463) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/attraction/jiayuguan-pass/The Jiayuguan Pass was one of great strategic importance. The existing Jiayuguan Pass walls were built in the time of Ming Dynasty. The construction of these walls began in 1372. It was not until 1539 that the they became a complete defense system, which had three defense lines, the entrenchment, the outer wall, and the inner wall. The inner wall is 10.7 meters high and encloses a city section of about 25,000 square meters. It has two gates, namely the Rouyuan Gate in the west and the Guanghua ...]]>Wed 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/jiayuguan/food/camel-foot-sole-dish/