Fei Lai Feng, literally Peak Flown from Afar, stands next to Ling Yin Temple affordable China tours. Fei Lai Fen stands 209 meters in height. On its name, there are several legends. And the most favored legend states that the peak took its name from Huili, a monk from Indian. It is said that the monk arrived in the valley 1,600 years ago and he was surprised by the peak which is similar to a peak in his country. So he believed that the peak had flown over from India. And after that, the name was created and has passed down to the present day.

Standing among the sandstone hills, the Fei Lai Fen, made of pure limestone, looks quite distinctive. Stones in large scale stands along the peak and they looks like animals, such as fleeing monkeys, running elephants, flying dragons, and crouching tiger.

A pavilion China travel service was built on the other side of the peak to immortalize General Yue Fei, one of the national heroes in China.

The cave in Fei Lai Feng is a gallery for stone statues tracing to 10th and even the 14th centuries. The statue counts 330 totally in a variety of poses ranging from standing, sitting and to sleeping. The most famous is the Laughing Buddha sitting on the cliff along the stream.This Buddha has a big belly, and it is said that he put all of the troubles into his belly for his pilgrims.

Visitors always ask why there are so many Buddha statues in the cave. According to the legend, the ghosts in the hills often hunted local people and the statues were carved to prevent the ghosts making troubles to the locals. And consequently these statues have been the birthplace of many folkloric stories. China Grotto Art Garden China travel videos was set around the site of statues in 1993.

The admission fee is CNY 45 per adult. And Tourism Bus No. 1, Tourism Bus No. 2, Bus No. 7/K7, Y13, K807/K837 can take you there. Get off at Lingyin Station.

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Located on the southeastern slope of the Dajiao Mountain in Guangzhou City China tour deals, Nansha Tianhou Palace is facing the Lingdingyang (Lingding Ocean), the mouth of the Pearl River. Covering an area about 100 hectares (247.1 acres), the architecture of Nansha Tianhou Palace combines both the style of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the sublimity of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum in Nanjing. It is the largest palace compound of its category in the world. It is regard as the 'First Tianhou Palace under Heaven' and the biggest Mazu Temple in southeastern Asia, which reflects its important position in the history.
Built in the Ming Dynasty, the temple was renovated during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1737-1795) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Unfortunately, it was ruined later. The palace we see today was rebuilt in 1994 and completed in 1996. In fact, it is the copy edition of the former.

In order to express our respect for the Goddess of Tianhou, Tianhou Palace was built. Actually, Tianhou is also called Mazu by the people, whose real name is Linmo (960-987). There are many moving stories about her helping people in shipwrecks, thus, she was thought to be the incarnation of the goddess of sea. There are over 100 million believers in more than twenty countries and the number is increasing every year.

Covering an area of 1.5 hectares (about 3.7 acres), Tianhou Square is the first reach if you arrive at the Tianhou Palace China travel service. A huge statue of the Goddess of Tianhou stands at the center of the square, which faces the Lingdingyang and is about 14.5 meters (about 47.6 feet) in height, made of 365 pieces of granite. It symbolizes that the Tianhou could bless fishermen and brings pleasant weather for the whole year. It is the reason that why so many people believe the Goddess.
You can see the memorial archway behind the square, which is the name of the palace written over the top, and some inscriptions written on both sides. Once you have gone through it, you will come to the main gate where honored the statues of two legendary immortals, Clairvoyance (thousand-mile eye) and clairaudience (wind-accompanying ear), which are really famous in China legend and even the child have a impression on them.

After entering the gate, you will come to the Hall of Blessing where a statue of Tianhou is honored. She is procted by four Dragon Kings (the Gods of the sea) holding up a jade tablet and standing at each side. Then you will come to the Main Hall, the center of the whole palace. In the hall, two statues of Tianhou are honored in a shrine. One is 3.8 meters (about 12.5 feet) in height, plated and carved from the fragrant sandalwood. The other is noted as 'soft-body' statue, whose hand and foot joints are movable. The entire Main Hall is full of a sense of benevolence and majesty, rectitude and holiness. Behind it, you will see the resting Hall, the living room of the Goddess of Tianhou, where a sitting sculpture of Tianhou is displayed together with some simple instruments of her daily life China shopping.

It is an 8-storey building at the very back of the palace is the Nanling Tower, which rises to a height of 45 meters (about 148 feet) and is the highest point of the whole palace. It is spread widely among Chinese people that the code of a God is singular, while that of a Goddess is plural. Owing to it, the number of all stories, steps and tiles is plural in the Tianhou Palace.

What’s more, there are seven forts together called Dajiao Mountain Forts in the palace, which have been listed as national priority cultural relic protection sites in 1982. Moreover, the Free Life Pond is also worth a visit, where you could set free small creatures. Nansha Tianhou Palace attracts a lot of visitors by its charming scenic beauty and classical buildings every year. It is obviously deserves a visit on your trip to Guangzhou. It will not disappoint you.

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Hangs 50 meters above the ground on the cliff side of Mount Hengshan China vacation deals, Datong Hanging Monastery is the only one in China which enshrines three religions within one monastery. As the principal attraction of Hengshan Mountain, Hanging Monastery pays homage to Confucianism and Taoism as well as to Buddhism, with sculptures of Confucius and Lao-Tzu alongside sculptures of the founding father of Buddhism, Sakyamuni Buddha.

50 meters over the ground and consisting of 40 pavilions and halls, the Hanging Monastery was originally built without any help of wooden pillars that appear to support. The wooden pillars were added later for the tourists wouldn’t dare to climb up to the monastery worrying it would fall. Actually, these pillars could be removed away.

Via a bridge Shopping in China and the chiseled stone staircase in the cliff face, visitors will reach the monastery. The 6 main halls of the monastery are intricately and ingeniously linked by winding corridors, bridges, and boardwalks. Have a glimpse of the ground below from the corridors, bridges, you will realize how exciting this hanging monastery could be.

This temple has a collection of 80 fine statues, including statues in bronze, iron, terracotta and stone, all are remarkably true-to-life. However, the most distinguishing feature of this hanging monastery must be the side-by-side presence of the sculptures of Lao-Tzu, Confucius, and Sakyamuni, the founders of the three main religions of China: Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, respectively. They really live in a peaceful and harmonious way China travel video.

The Datong Hanging Monastery really satisfied people who want to find their own religions while during traveling, besides; the Hanging Monastery enshrined China’s three major religions so that more travelers can stay there.

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Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base Best Sichuan Tour Package of Pandas, Jiuzhaigou was established in 1987, located in northern suburb of Chengdu, 10 km away from the urban area. Giant panda has become the rare and endangered wild animals. Base in order to establish the initial rescue of six from the wild giant panda based, has succeeded in captive giant panda population to about 70. Valuable information in giant panda museum, exhibits rich to recognize giant panda an excellent return to nature places.

The Giant Panda Breeding Research Base on Futou Mountain is located in the northern suburbs of the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. The base was built in 1987.And it by the Garden techniques to simulate survivorship of giant panda Shopping in China in wild .This green coverage ratio reach up to 96 percent. It is about 10 km away from downtown with an expanse Panda road. In addition to giant pandas, red pandas, black-necked cranes, white storks and white swans, black swans, geese, ducks and peacocks and other animals, is here to leisurely lives and breeds.

The Giant Panda Museum is located at the base, and it is the world’s only museum that focuses entirely on the critically endangered giant panda. Inside the museum, on display all kinds of valuable information in Figure 800 pieces of photos, showing the main types of samples collected from Sichuan China travel video, more than 2140 kinds of physical, more than 12450 pieces; the museum also exhibits books and scientific literature that authors around the world have written about giant pandas throughout history.

How to Get There:
Take taxi from the city center and it costs CNY30 or so.
Take bus 902 from Xinnanmen Tourism Coach Center to the panda center directly.
Take bus 1, 32, 49, 53, 63, 64, 69, 70, 71, 83, 156 to Zhaojuesi Bus Stop. Then change to Bus 198 to Panda center.

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History of Meidaizhao Lamasery

Meidaizhao Lamasery lies at around 80 km east of Baotou city affordable China travel packages. It was built in 1575 for Alatanhan who was a leader of the Mongol tribe in ancient China. It was one of the most important centers for disseminating Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia.

The programming of Meidaizhao Lamasery has three major intentions: temple of worshipping Buddha, royal residence and protection from aggression . The Lamasery is surrounded by thick and long walls. Watchtowers are built at four corners of the walls. This programming will help preserve the city from aggression.

Features of Meidaizhao Lamasery

Meidaizhao Lamasery Student tours to China is important for the study of Mongolia history of religion , arts and architecture in the Ming Dynasty. Inside the temples, the walls are covered with fair frescos describing Buddhist stories, Sakyamuni’s images, Mongolian nobility worshipping Buddhism, Mongolians in traditional costumes as well as images of Alatanhan and his wife. Royal palaces are located deep in the city. Inside the wooden tower of Empress Hall stored the ashes of Alatanhan's wife.

Every year on May 13 of lunar calendar, there is a conventional Meidaizhao Temple Fair. The fair lasts around a week’s time. People from different places gather here, not only for worshipping or pleasure trip, but also for exchanging and selling local products.

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Fahai Temple is located on the Cuiwei Mountain, two kilometers northeast of Moshikou, Beijing China vacation deals. The main constructions are respectively built on three terraces. On the first terrace is the Hall of Gateway; on the second is the Hall of Four Gods, and on the third is the Grand Hall of Buddha, around which is the Hall of Masters. Fahai Temple's construction was completed in 1443. Emperor Zhu Qizhen inscribed the stele of the temple, which makes it famous among numerous temples in Beijing.

Fahai Temple is noted for its murals, which are represented by the mural painting the auspicious clouds behind the three-life Buddha, the mural painting the Buddhists attending a meeting, the mural behind the shrine painting the three Masters and the mural on the back wall depicting Brahma worshiping the Buddha. They all adopt the traditional Chinese realistic painting method characterized by fine brush work and close attention in detail. Fine, delicate strokes, meticulous painting and exquisite coloring have made the murals distinguished among murals found in Beijing.

Compared with Dunhuang Murals and Yongle Palace Murals in Shanxi Province, murals in Fahai Temple Educational tours in China have their own merits, which could match the beauty of renaissant murals in Europe.

Further Information:

Address: Moshikou, Shijingshan District, Beijing

Bus Route: Bus No.31 1, 336, 337, 396, 746, 747, 959, 965, 972, 977; Underground railway to the station of Pingguoyuan China Photographing Tours, transfer to Bus 336 or 396 to Shougang Xiaoqu, then take Bus.311 to Moshikou Dongkou.

Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00 (winter 9:00-16:30)

Visit Contents: Authentic works and video programs about murals created in Ming Dynasty, Pictures of Dunhuang Murals and Yongle Palace Murals.

Nearby Sights: Badachu Park, Tianyi Tomb, Glacier Vestige and Philanthropy Temple

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In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian China vacation deals, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40-odd individually fossilized skeletons of "Peking Man", male, female, old and young, all at the same site. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing's civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossilized remains prove that "Peking Man" was primitive man in an evolutionary process from ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing Student tours to China. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40-odd individually fossilized skeletons of "Peking Man", male, female, old and young, all at the same site. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing's civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossilized remains prove that "Peking Man" was primitive man in an evolutionary process from ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

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Located at the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain some 16 km west of Datong City, Shanxi Province last minute China travel deals, Yungang Grottoes were built against the mountain and extend about 1 km (0.62 miles) from east to west. The construction of the caves was started under the auspices of the noted monk Tan Yao in 453 and took 50 years to complete. Some 40,000 people, including the Buddhists from what is present Sri Lanka, contributed to the huge project.

The 53 grottoes in Yungang Grottos include some 1,000 niches with about 51,000 statues – a treasure-trove of cave art that combines traditional Chinese art forms with foreign influence, particularly Greek and Indian. Sculptures here are noted for their vigorous features and rich variety that range from the smallest, only 2 centimeters high, to the tallest – a Buddha 17-meters high. The tallest Buddha is surrounded by many small Buddhas in Grotto No. 5, also called the Big Buddha's Cave.

The Yungang Grottoes are divided into three zones: east, west and central and numbered from east to west. Grottos No.1 and No. 2 are located in the east zone. Statues and sculptures inside these caves have been severely damaged by exposure to the elements, but still preserved in the east zone are relief sculptures of Buddhist stories on the lower part of the eastern wall of Grotto No. 1. Inside the entrance of the Yungang Temple Student tours to China is an impressive four-storeyed wooden fa?ade with glazed top outside the Grottos Nos. 3, 4 and 5.

Most of the grottoes are in the western zone, and each has its own character. Grotto No. 20 – one of the five earliest caves of monk Tan Yao – houses the sitting statute of Sakyamuni, 13.7 meters high, with a full and round face with a majestic smile, slim lips and a high nose, ears that extend almost to the shoulders, radiant eyes and broad shoulders. Sakyamuni statue is representative of Buddha sculptures in Yungang Grottoes.

Over the past 1,500 years since their completion, Yungang Grottoes China Photo Tour have been damaged by both war and natural disasters. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government attached great importance to the preservation of the grottoes. A special Yungang Grottoes protection institution was set up in 1995, and in 1961, the State Council listed Yungang Grottoes as key cultural site under its protection. In 1965, the Datong municipal government issued and implemented the Programs for the Protection Scope and Safety of Yungang Grottoes. From 1973 to 1976, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, China injected a huge sum of money into the grottoes, rescuing many grottoes and caves that had been on the verge of collapse.

In recent past ten or so years, the Datong municipal government has intensified its efforts to protect the Yungang Grottoes. Huge investment has been made to get rid of illegal construction and to intensify landscaping efforts at the site. In December 2001, the 25th meeting of UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Helsinki, Finland, passed a decision to list Yungang Grottoes on the World Cultural Heritage List.

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Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was an outstanding Chinese artist and educator of the fine arts. His works cover a wide range of styles and mediums, though he is best known for his horse paintings affordable China tours.

The Xu Beihong Museum was originally housed near the Beijing Railway Station. In 1953 Xu' s wife, Mrs. Liao Jingwen, contributed the residence and his entire collection of books, calligraphy, and paintings to the country. Later, due to subway renovations, the museum was moved to 53 North Xinjiekou Street, the former location of Liu Qiyuan' s personal chrysanthemum collection.

The museum displays Mr. Xu' s studio as it was originally arranged. Among the wall hangings are the master' s copy of the Western European oil painting "Bountiful Harvest," traditional Chinese paintings by Ren Bonian and Qi Baishi, and a photo of Mr. Xu with the Indian poet and philosopher Tagore Student tours to China. Also on display are the master' s seals, ancient artifacts, and gifts given by foreign friends.

Photos include shots from Mr. Xu' s trips to the former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, Italy and India. Copies of letters from the Chinese People' S volunteers and elementary school students, telegrams and original letters of condolence sent after the master' s death are also on display.

In the exhibition hall are color ink paintings, oil paintings, and sketches from each period of Mr. Xu's career. His explosive, daring "Galloping Horse" symbolizes beauty and power. The inscription says: "I'm agitated about the battle in Changsha China travel videos on August 10, 1941. Will it end as the first? I hope so." The master completed this work in the autumn of 1941 in Singapore, where he went to raise funds for the War of Resistance Against Japan.

The Xu Beihong collection is comprised largely of works collected by the master, works from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties up to the May 4th Movement of 1919. All together, there are over 1,200 art objects, 10,000 ancient books, stone inscription rubbings, bronze vessel rubbings, and prints. Include is an expensive Tang painting "Eighty-seven Immortals" by Wu Daozi, a famous Tang Dynasty painter, which the master purchased in Hong Kong in 1938.

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The Yan-Huang Art Gallery, located at Yayuncun (the Asian Games Village), is China vacation deals Beijing's first large modern art gallery. It was sponsored by celebrated Chinese painter, Huang Zhou, and built with donations from art lovers from all walks of life, both at home and abroad. Its collection consists mainly of contemporary Chinese paintings, and also includes ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy, cultural relics and other works of art.

The Yan-Huang Art Gallery Educational tours in China comprises a central lobby, exhibition halls, a multi-function hall, and a painting warehouse. The museum buildings reflect the architectural styles of the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties. Their layout is non-symmetrical, combining the spirit of the era, cultural tradition and local characteristics. The roofs of the three main buildings are in the shape of multiple trapezoids, the roof tiles are of a deep-purple glaze, and the walls are covered by granite. The main gate is of solid bronze, and the whole structure exudes artistic appeal.

The works of Huang Zhou occupy a prominent place in the art gallery, and include the works of art he created, as well as cultural relics and masterpieces collected over his lifetime. Influential Chinese artists, such as Xu Beihong, Fu Baoshi and Li Keran, and master artists residing overseas, often exhibit their works here.

Besides exhibitions of Chinese paintings, the gallery often holds national exhibitions of fine arts, such as oil paintings, sculpture, woodblock prints and cultural relics. To encourage young and middle-aged painters, personal painting shows exhibiting the work of young and middle-aged artists of Beijing are held regularly. The Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Paintings 99 was staged at the Yan-Huang.

The gallery is active in international art exchanges. Its major exhibitions in this field have included the work of Russian painters, the International Biennial Exhibition of Woodblock Prints 2000, and the Fourth Asian Exhibition of Cartoons China Photo Tour. Fine arts exhibitions from more than 20 countries have been held at the Yan-Huang, including Iran, the Republic of Korea, Brazil, Japan, Belgium, and Bulgaria.

The Yan-Huang Art Gallery is also an academic research institute, and holds symposiums and academic exchange activities annually. In 1993, for example, Doctor Tsungdao Lee and Huang Zhou jointly sponsored a science and art symposium, which prompted widespread social response.

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There's no large-scale official building on the site after the Northern Song Dynasty. The county seat moved under the Jinzi Hill on the southern bank of the Yangtze River Yangtze River tour. Archeologists say that a recent study shows the county official site was hit by flooding and mud-rock flows during the Northern Song Dynasty. After that, the county official site had to move out of Badong. The exact time is not clear but thought to be no earlier than in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279).

Nevertheless, Badong had its most prosperous time in the Northern Song Dynasty and thereafter declined. Lu You, a poet from the Southern Song Dynasty, described Badong County China vacation deals in his Travel Notes to Sichuan: "The county is depressed: only some one hundred families live there. The houses are all made of thatch grass, not a single tile."

Li Qingrong, explained that the governors of all dynasties did not support the development of the ethnic economy of the area south of the Yangtze River. Its remote to the Central Plains, closed off by mountains and without convenient traffic facilities. The dwellers were conservative and took business as a debasing activity. Together with the natural disasters -- floods, landslides and mud-rock flows -- the productivity and culture there were far inferior to that developed on the Central Plains.

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Located thirty kilometers northeast of Changping District, the pagoda forest affordable China tours stands on the old site of the ancient Yanshou Temple on the southern slope of Yinshan (Silver) Hill near Haizi Village. During the Liao and Kin dynasties many Buddhist temples were built around Yinshan. It is said that there were as many as seventy-two temples at one time, Yanshou, also called Fahua Temple, built in 1125, the grandest of all. The pagoda forest was actually the cemetery of the monks of the temple.

Today only seven pagodas still stand, five built during the Kin Dynasty and two during the Yuan Dynasty. All five Kin Dynasty pagodas are multi-eaved brick structures on huge Sumeru platforms. The platforms and the first storey of the pagodas are covered by beautiful relief carvings. Under the eaves are brick brackets. From the first storey on up, short eaves, close together, are spaced at between twenty and thirty meters, resembling ordinary pagodas rather than tomb pagodas China Educational tours. The two Yuan Dynasty pagodas are smaller, but each has its own characteristics. One is a multi-eaved pagoda with brick brackets under the eaves. Its inward-curving lines give it a special elegance. The other is a combination of multi-eaved and inverted-bowl styles. It fills a special position in the architectural art of Buddhist pagodas dating to the Kin and Yuan dynasties in the Beijing area.

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Zhang Fei was noted for his loyalty to friends and for his bravery. He met Liu Bei and Guan Yu and became sworn brothers at the Peach Garden China vacation dealsand vowed to combine their strengths and efforts to restore peace and order to the country.

In 221, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei's sworn brother, died in the battle with the Wu State. Zhang Fei, who was called the Tiger General, swore revenge and prepared to attack the state of Wu with his army. He ordered Commanders Zhang Da and Fan Jiang to lead the attack and avenge his brother, under pain of death. The two treacherous officers cut off Zhang Fei's head, intending to surrender to the Wu State. However, they heard of a peace settlement between the states of Wu and Shu, and threw Zhang Fei's head into the river Yangtze River tour.

Legend has it that Zhang Fei appeared in a fisherman's dream and made a request to rescue his head and bury it in the Shu. The fisherman obeyed, and accidentally found a jar of gold when he rescued the head. Then he buried the head on Flying Phoenix Hill and built a temple using the gold he had found to commemorate the bold general.

The story is moving, but after Zhang Fei's death, Shu got weaker. In AD 223, Liu Bei was defeated by Wu and dead in Baidi town. Liu Chan, Liu Bei's son, occupied the Three Gorges for 40 years and had no ambitions to invade the Wu. Because of the special terrain, the Wu also couldn't break it. Until 263, the Wei Kingdom broke the Shu, then defeated the Wu, and unified China. -- What surprised us was the route Wei took was almost the same as the Qin, when it defeated the Ba and Shu 400 years before.

Nowadays, when the national water project conflicted with the Zhangfei Temple, people decided to relocate the temple Educational tours in China. The original Zhang Fei Temple would be below the water line after the Three Gorges project, so it had to be relocated.

The new location is more than 30 kilometers upriver from the old one. It was prudently selected -- the mountain, water and other surroundings are very similar to the old one and near to the town. The relocation steps were also very complicated -- all the wood ware, brick, tiles, poles and stone ware were numbered, moved to the new location and restored.

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Surging Wave Pavilion, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is located near Sanyuan Fang, south Suzhou City China tour deals. It was first built in North Song Dynasty and the private garden of Su Shunqing, a government official. Surging Wave Pavilion is the oldest garden by comparison with any other gardens in Suzhou. The buildings in the garden can date back to 11th century, though they have been repeatedly rebuilt.

Stepping in Surging Wave Pavilion China Educational tours, you can first see a lake around the garden and various strange stone on the bank of the lake. The main scenery in the garden is the man-made hills and waters. Aged-old trees and bamboo groves grow on the hills. The long and winding corridor connect hills and waters. Canglang Ting (Surging Wave Pavilion, a square pavilion), stands atop of a hill.

The main building Mingdao Hall, located at the southeast foot of the hills, is the teaching area of Ming and Qing dynasties. Surrounded by verdant trees, the hall is spacious and looks solemn with simple architectural style. To the south of the Mingdao Hall is Kanshan Pavilion and Yinxin Stone House. Standing in Kanshan PavilionChina Holidays, tourists can overlook the scenery of Suzhou far or near.

Bamboo is the main and traditional plant and one of features in the garden. Now there are over 20 kinds of bamboos. To the north of the Mingdao Hall is Cuilinglong Hall, surrounded by bamboos, Chinese bananas. Next to Cuilinglong is a memorial hall - Five Hundred Sages Hall which houses 594 sculptures of historical figures relating with Suzhou history. From these sculptures, you can learn something about Suzhou history.

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A one-hour bus ride from Huangguoshu and Tanxingqiao is the Dragon Palace affordable China tours, (27 km from Anshun and 132 km from Guiyang) made up of a great number of karst caves stretching fifteen kilometers long, running through some twenty hills and connecting over ninety caves. An underground river flows through the caves, leaving some dry and some wet. At the moment only 840 meters of the stone tunnel is open, having been divided into six "halls". The cave, 80-meter high and 50-meters at its widest point, contains some fantastic stalactites and is entered by boat from Tianci Lake. It is known as one of the spectacles of Asia.

This scenic spot includes mainly four parts, namely, the Rape Lake, the Whirlpool, the Leech Pass and the Dragon Palace itself with various underground water caves, land caves and ponds on or under the ground. A boat takes visitors to the magnificent views in the cave, which goes through the deep labyrinth and brings you to the spacious and bright-lit halls, around which are the stone pillars and a stone forest, in the shape of human beings and animals. The scene keeps changing, as the boat gets deeper into the cave.

The underground water way within the Dragon Palace forms two chambers: the outer chamber and the inner chamber. In the inner Chamber, there is a flat place serving as a dock, where visitors can get ashore for a visit. In the outer chamber, there is a platform about 1000 sq meters spacious. Getting off the boat and going up some stone ladders, you soon come to the Tiger's Den, from which some 5400-meter-long stone ladders will take you back to the gate again through the Stone Forest Park. There are many kinds of natural plants in this park, natural stone formations and lush, green trees standing crowded side by side, complementing each other in the sunshine. The last item on the program is to visit the waterfall at Longmen, the mouth of a cave, where waters from Tianchi, rush down the cliff and form a unique sight, 33 meters wide, 37 meters high. People describe it as a white dragon coming out of its cave. Hence the Longmen, meaning the Dragon Gate in Chinese. 

Dragon palace is a key national tourist site Educational tours in China and one of the advanced tourist sites in China. It holds 2 world records, the first is Dragon Palace cave contains the mist drought and flood limestone in the cave; the second is the lowest radiation. Dragon Palace is famous for many kinds of magnificent and beautiful karst rock scenery and some attractive sites.

Dragon Palace Cave
The cave is made up of several parts. The first part is the subterranean limestone cave which is the first water limestone cave. The Dragon Palace limestone river is longest in China. It is 15 Kilometers. The construction of the cave hall looks like a Palace for the mythical Dragon king. “subterraina lijiang, heavenly forest “ is the value of limestone scenery, and the great Chinese poet AiQing said “it is the great marvelous from nature”. Taking a boat here is just like taking a boat in heaven “things are famous for its inherent things, not for its appearance. That is why we call Dragon Palace the paradise of human being.

Longmen Waterfall
The largest cave Waterfall China Photographing Tours —longmen waterfall is 26 meters wide and more than 50 meters high. The water falls so fast from the top of the mountain that is like 10,000 stampeding horse. The only other place that comes close to its beauty is Huangguoshu, a famous waterfall 30 kilometers away.

Xuantang Pond
The spectacular Xuantang Pond covers an area of 10,000 square. The water in xuantang flows naturally clockwise in a circle. The flow of the water is like the flow of time, never ending. It has delighted and fascinated visitors for centuries and will continue to delight people for centuries to come.

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The Oroqens are a race of dancers and singers. Men, women and children often gather to sing and dance when the hunters return with their game or at festival China vacation deals times.

With a rich and varied repertory of folk songs, the Oroqens sing praises of nature and love, hunting and struggles in life in a lively rhythm. Among the most popular Oroqen dances are the "Black Bears Fight" and "Wood Cock Dance," at which the dancers execute movements like those of animals and birds. Also popular is a ritual in which members of a clan gather to perform dances depicting events in clan history.

"Pengnuhua" (a kind of harmonica) and "Wentuwen" (hand drum) are among the traditional instruments used. Played by Oroqen musicians, these instruments produce tunes that sound like the twittering of birds or the braying of deer. These instruments are sometimes used to lure wild beasts to within shooting range.

The Oroqens have many tales, fables, legends, proverbs and riddles that have been handed down from generation to generation.

Being Shamanists or animists, the Oroqens worship nature and their ancestors, and believe in the omnipresence of spirits. Their objects of worship are carefully kept in birch-bark boxes hung high on trees behind their tents.

The Oroqens have a long list of don'ts. For instance, they never call the tiger by its actual name but just "long tail," and the bear "granddad." Bears killed are generally honored with a series of ceremonies; their bones are wrapped in straw placed high on trees and offerings are made for the souls of dead bears. Oroqens do not work out their hunting plans in advance, because they believe that the shoulder blades of wild beasts have the power to see through a plan when one is made.

Wind burials are practiced by the Oroqens Student tours to China. When a person dies his corpse is put into a hollowed-out tree trunk and placed with head pointing south on two-meter high supports in the forest. Sometimes the horse of the deceased is killed to accompany the departing soul to netherworld. Only the bodies of young people who die of contagious diseases are cremated.

Monogamy is practiced by the Oroqens who are only permitted to marry with people outside their own clans. Proposals for marriage as a rule are made by go-betweens, sent to girls' families by boys' families.

The Oroqens originally peopled the region north of the Heilong River and south of the Outer Hinggan Mountains. But aggression and pillaging conducted by Tsarist Russia after the mid-17th century forced the Oroqens to migrate to the Greater and Lesser Hinggan Mountains. There were then seven tribes living in a clan commune society. Each clan commune called "Wulileng" consisted of five to a dozen families descended from a male ancestor. The commune head was elected. In the commune, which was then the basic economic unit of the Oroqens, all production tools were communally owned. The commune members hunted together, and the game bagged was equally distributed to all families.

The introduction of iron articles and guns and the use of horses during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) raised the productive forces of the Oroqens to a higher level. This gave rise to bartering on a bigger scale and the emergence of private ownership. That brought about profound social, economic changes. Individual families quit the clan commune and became basic economic units. The clan commune had disintegrated, though members of the same clan did live or hunt together in the same area. Organized under the Qing Dynasty's "eight banner system," the Oroqens were compelled to enlist in the armed forces and send fur to the Qing court as tributes. Most soldiers sent to fight in Xinjiang, Yunnan Public China Holidays, Taiwan and other places lost their lives.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 came the rule of warlords who effected some changes in the administrative setup of the "eight banner system." Oroqen youths were dragged into "forest guerrilla units," and Oroqen hunters were forced to settle down to farm. Most of them later fled back to hunt in the forests. A few whom the warlords had made officers became landlords who hired Oroqen, Han, Manchu and Daur laborers to open up large tracts of land for crops.

The Japanese troops, who occupied northeast China in 1931, pulled down the cottages and smashed the farm implements of the remaining Oroqen farmers and drove them into the forests again. Oroqen youths were press-ganged into "forest detachments" officered by Japanese. The Japanese occupationists introduced opium smoking to ruin the health of the Oroqen people, some of whom were used in bacteria experiments. All this, coupled with incidence of epidemic diseases, had so decimated the Oroqen population that only some 1,000 of them remained at the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945.

Over a long period of time, the Oroqens had fought alongside other ethnic groups in China against Tsarist Russian and Japanese aggression to safeguard national unity. 

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the Dengqing Monastery The Dengqing Monastery, located in Xiongtuo village, Zhongzhake town, Dege County, other name as Dijin or Dingqing monastery affordable China tours, is the earliest Benbo sect monastery in Kham, more than 1200 year old.

With the qualification of awarding the Zhaba as Lama, it has the highest education system of Benbo sect in Gansu , Qinghai and Sichuan . Holds a test every year.

In 1983, the monastery was opened to the outside, and the religionary routines are operated under the government of Temple Management Committee Tibet Tours.

the Gengqing Monastery Located in the Gengqing town, Derge County , Gengqing mean in Tibetan as "large temple", the Gengqing Monastery was built by the Dege clan, Saturdaykyapa Sect. In history, it was divided into two parts: the western one is Tangjia Monastery and the eastern one is the Gengqing main temple.

During its most prosperous period, there were about 700-800 lamas in the middle of Qing Dynasty. After the liberation, the religion was separated from the polity by the government. To apply the patriotism of the monks, the top lamas were allocated to the different class governments.

In 1979, the famous Derge Printing house China Photo Tour, inside which are piles of collection of wood carved boards for printing, (many of the collections are rare in the world) was listed in the provincial protection. In 1981, the Gengqing Monastery, which belongs to Sakyapa order, was opened to the outside by the provincial government. Now, the monastery covers over 30 units with 300 monks. Under the government of the Temple Management Committee, the monastery doesn’t only play an important role in the religionary affairs, but also in the medication, the commerce and the transportation.

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