http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 712) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 2:46:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/bar/yinchuan-night-market/Yinchuan Night Market can be divided into two parts. One consists of a specialized group of stalls selling clothing and daily necessities, while the other is the paradise full of local flavor snacks. In the snack street of this night market, even people with no sense of direction can tell south from north easily for the south of the street and the north of the street belongs to totally different style. The south of the street is in Hui nationality style, while the north is in Han nationality sty...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 408) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 2:19:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/bar/mingdian-cafe/Mingdian Caf is well received by its customers, especially young couples, for its elegant European decoration style and the leisure atmosphere. You can experience classical western-style food culture, taste food from many countries and enjoy the pleasing music. Every detail there shows their hospitality....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 407) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 2:14:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/bar/best-cafe/With exalted and romantic environment, Best Caf is a comfortable place for you to have reunions with your friends and have business talks. There you can taste the simon-pure healthy and abundant cates from other countries cooked by professional chef. Putting forth novel ideas and providing thoughtful service, Best Caf is the best choice for leisure and entertainment....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 585) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 2:06:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/shop/xinhua-street/Xinhua Street is located in the old town of Yinchuan in the east to west direction. It is a traditional business street of Yinchuan, which is known as the first street in Ningxia. It stretches from the South Zhongshan Street in the east to the South Minzu Street in the west. In the junction of Xinhuan Street and South Drum-tower Street, there are many department stores, super markets, business centers, hotels and cinemas which together constitute the biggest shopping center of the whole city....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 591) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 2:03:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/shop/tongxin-market/As a characteristic market of Yinchuan, Tongxin Market provides a trade occasion for many Hui people. The customers are the Hui people buying meat, fruits and vegetables, and the vendors are also Hui people. Take mutton market as an example. Mutton is usually more expensive than beef, and pork is the cheapest one. Ningxia is rich in Fat choy (Nostoc flagelliforme )and Tongxin Market is famous for selling high quality Fat choy in low price. Therefore, the wholesalers from Yinchuan and other parts...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 590) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 1:39:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/shop/lijing-street/Boasting shopping, eating and drinking, and entertainment facilities, Lijing Street is the business center of Yinchuan. You can buy special and local products such as thread blanket, medlar wine, Helan stone carving and so on, and taste various Hui Minority flavor snacks. There are some modern shopping malls as well, where you can find some big brands and entertainment centers....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3314) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 1:34:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/restaurant/zhongshan-lu-food-street-/Zhongshan Lu Food Street is a famous snack street of Yinchuan with all kinds of Muslemic food, such as Sweet and sour Yellow River carp, Shouzhua Mutton, Steamed lamb; Hui Minority snacks and many local flavor dishes, such as Boiled sheep innards, Mutton with Swollen Steamed Bread and instant-boiled mutton....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5932) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 5:02:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/jade-emperor-pavilion/Jade Emperor Pavilion lies in the East Street in the downtown of Yinchuan city. According to historical records, Jade Emperor Pavilion was built during the reign of Emperor Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, with a history of 600 years. It is one of the most important historical relics of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Jade Emperor Pavilion is a traditional wooden building with compact construction and refined technical art. It is of high value for the studies of the constructions of early Ming Dynasty ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 327) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 4:46:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/nanguan-mosque/Nanguan Mosque is the landmark of the Yinchuan City as well as the religious and cultural center, showing Muslim Brotherhood of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With two stories, the temple is 22 meters in height. The main building, a big religious service palace, can accommodate more than 1,000 people to attend religious service at the same time. The main color of the whole building is green, which is considered as the symbol of holiness by Muslims. Furthermore, it has a strong Arab flavor. Wi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5931) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 3:38:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/yellow-river/Yellow River, the mother river of Chinese people, is the river with the largest amount of sediment concentration in the world. It is 5464.3357 kilometers long, 4,800 meters above sea level in the headstream and the average flow is 1774.5 cubic meters per second. Its drainage area is 752,443 square kilometers. Its headstream is in Qinghai Province, and flow into the Bohai Sea. Hekou, also named Jinmen, is the middle and lower reaches of boundary. Its cradleland is in the north of the Bayankela Mo...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 351) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 3:29:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/the-najiahu-mosque/Located in the center of the Hui village in Yongning County, Najiahu Mosque is a traditional mosque in Han nationality style, and one of the largest and oldest mosques in Ningxia. The temple, with an area of 30 acres, sits in the west and faces the east in a rectangular form, consisting of the Temple Gate, the great hall of Worship, wing-rooms, and bathrooms. The temple is quiet and solemn. And the large spacious main hall can hold 1,000 people at the same time. With a long history and a large s...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1203) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 3:19:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/chengtiansi-temple/The renowned Chengtiansi Temple is located in the southwest of the ancient city Yinchuan, with its main gate facing east. There are four surviving buildings including Five Buddhas Palace, a pagoda, Weituo Palace, and Sleeping Buddha Palace. The palaces are spectacular and the ancient trees reach straight to the sky. In the center of the temple is an ancient tower poking into the sky. That is Chengtiansi Tower, commonly called West Tower. With a height of 64.5 meters, it is the highest of the ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 329) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 3:09:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/the-huaxia-western-moive-city/Huaxia Western Movie City is located in Zhenbeibao Ancient City, the north of the Yinchuan City. There are two ancient castles in the ancient city which are under Yinchuan City protection and regarded as the treasure of Ningxia. They were built to defense the invasion of the minorities in the north of Helanshan Mountain. Local people call them respectively Old Castle and New Castle, since the former was built in 1500 and the latter in 1740. Zhenbeibao Ancient City has a history of hundreds of...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 330) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 2:48:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/the-huaxia-treasure-city/Located near the Huaxia Western Movie City, it covers an area of 40,000 square meters. There are three museums in it, namely, Islamic Culture Museum, Rare Stone Museum, and Huaxia Coin Museum, in which miniaturized landscapes in a scale of 1:50 are exhibited. The Islamic culture is systematically reproduced in the Islamic Culture Museum, where miniaturized models of three most famous mosques in the world and the scenes of Zheng He's navigations sailing to the West Ocean (Indian Ocean) are exhibi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1204) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 2:24:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/the-haibao-pagoda/Haibao Pagoda, also called Hebao Pagoda and Heibao Pagoda, is located in the Haibao Pagoda Temple, 2km north of Yinchuan downtown. Since it is in the north of the city, local people also call it West Pagoda. It is elegant and beautiful, simple and unique. As an excellent ancient building, it has stood on that land for at least 1500 years and is regarded as one of the eight most famous sights of northern China. It is a brick pagoda of pavilion style with 9 stories. Consisted of base, body and ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1205) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 2:08:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/the-great-wall-of-the-ming-dynasty/It is located in the south of Helanshan Mountain which is over 40km west of Yinchuan City. It stands on the junction of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. There are three passes, namely, first pass, second pass and third pass from east to west. According to the historical records, Qi Zhi, a commissioner-in-chief in Ming Jiajing period, spent a tremendous amount of money in building a 80km-long great wall with the three passed in the north. But unfortunately, it was buried by sand. Later, Yang S...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 338) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 1:40:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/suyukou-national-forest-park/It is located in Helanshan national conservation area which is 25km northwest of Yinchuan urban district. It has become an ecotourism destination of Ningxia and a national AAAA-Grade Tour Scenic Spot. Suyukou National Forest Park boasts both beautiful natural scenery and rich culture. In the scenic area, the natural forests of pitch pine, hackmatack, and spruce go beyond peoples sight and cherries, violet clove, pink almonds spread all over the park. The colors of the forests change with seas...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5930) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 1:14:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/laolongtan-(old-dragon-deep-pool)/Laolongtan is located in the east of Liupanshan Mountain, 20km southwest of Jingyuan County. It is consisted of four waterfalls. In the lower reaches of a reservoir, the first and second waterfalls are mysterious with steep precipice, and deep ponds. The third waterfall is submerged by the reservoir. When the mist is floating and the sun is projected on the water surface, it looks like a magic mirror, fantastic and splendid. In the upper reaches is the forth waterfall, winding as a dragon and li...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 326) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Aug 2008 0:08:00 GMTirishttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/ningxia-hui-autonomous-region-museum/Located in the Chengtiansi Temple, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Museum is a provincial historical museum. The construction of it was started in 1959, and was finished in 1973. There are more than 10,000 collections among which are famous cultural relics such as Songta Ink-stick of Han Dynasty and gold inlaid bronze bull of West Xia Dynasty. Most of the cultural relics in the museum are of high archaeological value. The exhibits in the museum are mainly divided into four districts: Historical...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 333) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 24 Aug 2008 22:04:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/ningxia/yinchuan/attraction/helanshan-rock-carvings/Helanshan Mountain is located over 50 km from Yinchuan City, with thousands of rock carvings carved on the rocks and cliffs. The carvings are simple and natural, embodying a strong sense of realism. Half more of the carvings are about human head, and others are mainly about animals including horse, d, deer, bird, wolf and so on. With abundant imaginations, the human-head carvings are quite fantastic. Some have horns, and some wear a round top cap or peaked cap. The female-head carvings which ...]]>