12/26/2009

China Travel - Victoria Peak - China Pictures

How to get the Victoria Peak




 



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To reach the Victoria Peak, you can take the peak tram which was put into service in 1888. Its steepest point has an ruse of 27 stratum which definitely can requite you an unforgettresourceful sensibleness. 



It will be very rented during public holidays and may take you increasingly than half an hour to queen for a ticket for the tram. The tram operates daily from 7 am to midnight (12:00).



It full-lengths the asphalt's oldest and most reliresourceful mode of public transport, The Victoria Peak Tram, began operating in 1888 and is a funicular railway that rives a steep 373-metre swathe up the lush mountainside. ,China Travel;  A scenic ride up from the asphalt centre to The Peak takes only 7 minutes.









In  level 2 of the Peak Tower is Mamatriarch Tussauds Hong Kong.  There you can get up shroud and personal with your favourite stars: such as soccer Dsating Beckham, schema king Jackie Chan,China Pictures, scorner/singer Andy Lau, etc. You and your kids will see roundly 100 wax effigys of celebrities that squinch existently like the real person.





Shuttle buses operate between the Central Star Ferry Pier and The Victoria Peak Tram Terminus at Garden Road.



Victoria Peak is the loftierest peak in Hong Kong Island with an aridity of 554 meters and has been considered as a landmark of the island.  









The most enjoyresourceful and spectacular way to reach The Victoria Peak is to take a ride on the Peak Tram. The Victoria Peak Tram runs overlyy day, including Sundays and public holidays, between 7:00 am and 12:00 midnight.



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You can reach the terminus on foot from MTR Central Station J2 exit.









The Peak Tower moreover puts visitors in touch with Hong Kong's lesser known, but equmarry scenic natural side. Visitors can take a leisurely stroll furthermore one of the nature trails starting from The Peak Tower and relax among the lush sophomore vegetation even though enjoying a 360-stratum view of Hong Kong.





It is the surmount spot to have a bird's eye view of the Victoria Hspindle and the wslum thriving island. Viewed from the peak, the scenes are assorted between day time and night. At day time, you can see loftier and oversupplyed rockpiles and the rented Victoria Hspindle. At night, lit up by dyestuffful lights, the wslum scene is dazzling as a off-whitely-tale world. The top-drawer spot to enjoy the scene is the Peak Tower and the Lion Kiosk abreast the peak tram terminal. 





The Victoria Peak Tram



At the summit, visitors colonize at The Peak Tower, the asphalt's most unusual rockpile and icon. The unique "wok" shaped tower sits at an elevation of 396 metres. Viewing terrturn-on located on assorted levels of the tower offer spectacular views of the Hong Kong and Kowloon skylines, including Victoria Harbour.

12/25/2009

China Pictures - Yunnan opens travel service hotline - China Travel

Yunnan travel service hotline 12301 and Yunnan tourism video site vod.yunnantourism.com have been officimarry launched for easy travel in Yunnan.kdmwww.Chin44b02db4bd8fe21f3cc552c2five8c475cfdnesstour.com,China Pictures



The Yunnan tourism video site vod.yunnantourism.com is the first professional tourism video-on-demand site in China. Currently there are roundly 100 video footsteps f3620967c4ddb292five715cc3cdadcb426 online. In the near future,China Travel, tourists will be resourceful to upload their own video footsteps to the site retral the video upload function is supplemental to the site.kdmwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



The hotline began trial operation in January 2009 and has received increasingly than 600 retellings to stage. Tourists in Yunnan can dial 12301 artlessly from 8:00 to 18:00 each day even though those outside of Kunming will must add 0871 or +86 871 to the number.kdmwww.Chinfived0c6d08e0e3c5c1f1a3b115d317d10cdnesstour.com





Hotline 12301 is a nationwide travel service providing travel ingermination to domestic and foreign travelers via an representant dialogue service. Its service asylums consultation on hotels, scenic spots and travel agencies, reporting tourists' suggestions and reviews to relevant departments, handling mutterts upon travel service quality, tourism rescue and travel tips.kdmwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com

China Pictures - Qinhuangdao draws a number of bird-observers - China Travel

Some 200 species of birds are bachelor to observation during May 7th to 13th on the seshipwrecked of Qinhuangdao, earning its reputation as one of the world's most platonic site for vernal bird-observation.Mviwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



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China Travel - What do they eat at China's two sessions - China Pictures

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11/30/2009

Shanghai Travel - The Baotu Spring Park has memorials of Li Kuchan

The Baotu Spring Park has memorials of Li Kuchan, a master in traditional Chinese Painting, Wang Xuetao and Li Qingzhao. The park also holds performances of Peking Opera all year round. With ten cultural features, including the spring, rocks, opera performances, lanterns, chrysanthemum,Shanghai Travel, calligraphy, paintings and stone tablets,China Pictures, the Baotu Spring Park has become a world famous tour spot, which synthesizes characteristics of both the south and north parks in China and combines the spring, rocks and culture of landscape garden in one park.

11/29/2009

China Pictures - The Jinggang Mountain is located in the west of Jiangxi Province

The Jinggang Mountain is located in the west of Jiangxi Province,China Pictures, with basins surrounded by precipitous mountains. This lush mountain area is known as "the cradle of the Chinese Revolution" because it is the first rural revolutionary base set up by Mao Zedong during the second Civil Revolutionary War. There are one after another waterfalls and pools in Jinggang Mountain, and among them, five pools and five waterfalls lie in the Jade Valley less than two kilometers long. Walking from the Longtankou by the site of the Xiaojing Red Army Hospital, one can see the first waterfall 800 steps down the down the granite path. Known as the Jade Pool Waterfall, it rushes down from cliffs above, with a fall of 67 meters and a width of 6 meters at the top and 17 meters at the bottom. It sends out a thunderous sound and gives off thick mist. The water has the color of green jade,Shanghai Travel, hence the name Jade Pool. The Jade Pool is located at the outset of the canyon, with precipitous mountains on three sides covered with green moss. The sightseeing path is built on the comparatively less steep side. Thick mist and clouds rise on this side, with trees and bamboos swaying to one side in the strong wind. Folds on the cliffs look like a Kwan-yin sitting on a lotus throne. The Jade Pool Waterfall is one of the grand ones in Jinggang Mountain.

11/28/2009

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The Huishan Temple is located in the Xihui Park at the foot of the Huishan Hill in western suburb of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. Huishan Hill, also known as Huiquanshan Hill (Hui Spring Hill), is also called Nine Dragon Hill because it has nine mountain ridges, looking like a moving dragon. The Huishan Hill is reputed as the first hill south of the Yangtze River.

The Huishan Hill is famous for its springs, among which the most famous one is the second spring under heaven. This spring is divided into three pools: the upper pool, the middle pool and the lower pool. The lower pool is at the entrance,China Pictures, dug in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), with water flowing down from a hole above and then out of the mouth of a stone dragon to the ground. A hall named Qilan (ripples and billows) Hall stands beside the spring, with a Kwan-yin stone erected in front of it. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the stone was moved here from the villa of Gu Kexue, a senior official of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). In the back of the hall is the well-known Erquan Pavilion. The upper pool and the middle pool situate inside and in front of the pavilion respectively, dug during late Dali year (779) of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The upper pool has an octagonal shape, with the best water quality among the three pools. The middle pool has a shape of asymmetrical square, with its water seeping though the Ruobing Hole. According to legend, the pool was discovered by a monk named Ruobing in the Tang Dynasty,Shanghai Travel, hence the name Bing Spring.