China Travel Stories

Yellow Mountain, Where My Imagination Fly

Date: 2008-4-2 20:24:00 by tata Tags: Yellow Mountain

We were flying with Cathay Pacific to Shanghai. The journey involved a 1 hour stopover in Singapore and a transfer in Hong Kong.

We were landing on Pudong International Airport. Our Shanghai guide-Catherine picked us there and transferred us to our hotel. I have to say Shanghai is my favorite city in the world. The food was out of this world, the people were small so you could see

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Dirty Mining Region to Paradise under the Heaven

Date: 2008-3-31 20:51:00 by gina 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

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Drinking Tea in Fujian

Date: 2008-3-25 23:01:00 by david Tags: Chinese Tea Fujian

People of Fujian like drinking tea, and  "Kongfu Tea"  in Fujian is known to the world. To drink  "Kongfu Tea" , an exquisite and delicate pocket tea set should be prepared, including the red stoneware pottery teapot, fine porcelain teacups with the size of walnuts and also the pot for boiling the water. The tea leaf is Oolong tea which is a kind of half-ferme

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