Share, Enjoy and Discover...

Summer Palace in Beijing

Date: 2008-10-15 ; Tags: Beijing

The Summer Palace, in the Haidian District, northwest of central Beijing, is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in modern China. It’s hardly surprising that, during the hot Beijing summers, the Imperial Family preferred the beautiful gardens and airy pavilions of the Summer Palace to the walled-in Forbidden City

... View Details

Views:156 Comments (0)

Dirty Mining Region to Paradise under the Heaven

Date: 2008-03-31 ; Tags: China Tour China travel

This trip was full of contrasts – from the rather dirty areas of Datong-Pingyao to the very scenic sections later.

Datong

Very smoggy, in a huge coal area with around 10,000 coal mines, poor and dingy miners villages with the remains of ancient fortifications just dotted around, eg old beacon towers, or bits of old wall, built of rammed mud, crumbling now

... View Details

Views:443 Comments (0)