Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River Yangtze River tour and 530 kilometres from Chongqing, Badong County is one of the oldest counties in the area whose history may date back to the Warring States Period (BC 403-221). The Shennong River is famous there.

Originating in the Shennongjia Primitive Forest Zone of western Hubei Province, the 60-kilometre Shennong River is a quiet brook meandering through Badong County and joining the Yangtze River at western Badong.

The unique service there is to travel along the river by a tiny arched boat, called wandoujiao by local people.

The brook is just 30 to 80 centimetres in depth. So the clanking between the bottom of the boats and stone is often heard.

In some places, the boatmen even had to jump out of the boat and move some stones in the brook so the boat could move ahead.

When even this failed, the boatmen would take off their clothes last minute China travel deals, become totally naked, and become boat trackers. It was an old local tradition and a rare scene that could be only seen in summer, a local man told me.

When the boat stopped, I took off my shoes and trousers to have a walk along brook. It was not as interesting as I imagined. The stones rubbed against my feet and were too slippery to be walked upon.

It was the straw sandals that saved me. Wearing them, walking on the stones in the brook became much easier and it was just like walking on the common road China travel service.

From the distance, the songs by the boatmen hovered over the cliffs, I kept on walking in the cold clear water, totally intoxicated with the fascinating surroundings.


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The reporters of Tibet Travel came to a village in the Nyingchi Prefecture, where there is a famous Tibetan cuisine, Lunang Stone Pot Chicken cooked in a special stone pot.

The cuisine uses local Tibetan chicken, which lives on the plateau at an elevation of 3,200 to 4, 000 meters. This kind of chicken is good at flying because of the small figure China travel service. The chicken meat tastes chewy.

The Tibetan chickens are raised in a pollution-free environment and feed on green grass and small bugs. They are adapted to the changeable cold plateau climate. The chicken meat is rich in protein, energy and low in fat.

Moreover, the auxiliary ingredients are also specific and important, including gymnadnia conopsear broyn, codonopsis pilosula and Tibetan fritillaria thun-bergli. In particular, the gymnadnia conopsear broyn, also named as rhizome of conic gymnadenia, gets its name because it just looks like a human's palm (In Chinese, its name is "Shouzhang Shen", which means a palm-looking ginseng China tour deals). The gymnadnia conopsear broyn, also as a Tibetan medicine, is effective in nourishing yin and kidney.

Qianlong Lake was originally the Getang Reservoir, located in the Getang Township in Wangcheng District in Changsha. Qianlong Lake is the reservoir in plain type for water regulation and retardation. Covering an area of around 12,000 acres, Qianlong Lake is blessed with the wide and open surface of about 2,800 acres and the mid-lake peninsula of about 400 acres.

The total water capacity of the lake is about 10.24 million standard cubic meters, with the coverage of effectively irrigated area totaling 37,000 acres. The lake is large bodies of water and good water quality. Qianlong Lake Ecotourism Destination for your China vacation dealsis blessed with the most convenient traffic, the excellent surroundings, the landscape with mystery and charm and excellent ecological environment quality. On the northwest of the lake is the gentle rolling green low hillock areas.

The surrounding lake is the boundless expanse of the lake. The mountains, rivers, fields and village cottages had the accurate carvings of one perfect pastoral poem. Qianlong Lake had built up the supporting system construction of modern agriculture demonstration garden, marine products hatching base, saplings cultivated base and ecological village.

The beauty spot could be divided into six different types of leisure areas including water entertainment area, fishing and recreation area, time-sharing holiday area, eco-agricultural area, eco-forestry area and ecological aquaculture area, which had formed the tourist products system of leisure holiday, business meeting, extend training, agricultural sightseeing tourism, agricultural product and by product processing.

These projects have become rich and varied, with a good condition, extensive facilities and good service. The scenic spot is an ideal place for many activities including business, entertainment, holiday and meeting. Qianlong Lake is famous for its beautiful scenery during your Holidays in China. The water in the lake is deep and crystal-clear, and the surrounding trees are soothing your eyes, which are really refreshing.

In the early morning mists, you could tread on the dusky morning light, stroll through the embankment of Qianlong Lake. Here one could have a glimpse of a far-reaching blue lake with the still water of the lake about 2,800 acres in area. The lake is the shimmering water under the overlapping of the radiant morning sun, which could constitute a magnificent view of the glory of the morning.

The water is very transparent so that your eyes could penetrate into the bottom of the lake. The sparkling blue water of the lake is nearly indistinguishable from the sparkling blue sky. Here you could breathe this delightfully fresh air under the dense trees, which is sprinkled with the cool water of the lake, suffused with the scent of fragrant blossoms. Their fragrance could indeed bring joy to people's souls and refresh the mind.

If you stand among them, you could feel caught up in the landscape of lakes and waters to make your China Photo Tour fantastic, which could make people forget the earthly raffles. The green peninsula dipped into the water is like the huge water viewing platform. And you will keep the delightful scenery of the natural beauty of lakes and mountains. Those islands framed like two bright pearls in their settings of the beautiful Qianlong Lake.

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Chengtiansi Pagoda, also called as “West Pagoda”, is situated in the Chengtian Temple last minute China travel deals , southwest of Yinchuan City. Chengtiansi Pagoda was a main temple in Western Xia Kingdom (1038-1227 A.D.). It was originally built in 1050 and ruined almost of earthquake in 1738. Now the pagoda remained was reconstructed in 1820 of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 A.D.). Chengtiansi Pagoda is the only recorded ancient pagoda in Western Xia Kingdom and is the highest brick pagoda in over one hundred ancient pagodas remained in Ningxia.

Location in Chengtian Temple

Chengtian Temple China travel service lies in the west and faces to the east, and has front and back courtyard. There are Five Buddha Hall and Chengtiansi Pagoda in front courtyard, and Veda Hall and Reclining Buddha Hall in the back courtyard. They were all built in 1820. It is worth mentioning that there is a rare species of tree - Populus alba in front courtyard, which is 400 years old.

Architecture Structure of the Pagoda

Chengtiansi Pagoda preserved basically the architecture style of Western Xia Kingdom, but the layers of pagoda became 11 from 13. Chengtiansi Pagoda is an octagonal brick pagoda with the height of 64.5 meters. It is built on a square base with width of 26 meters. There is no window from first to third floor. Each layer has arch window, and windows face to east west in odd number layers and to south north in even number layers alternately. But on the top layer have eight large round windows. There is wooden steps winding to the top, and you can have a panoramic view of whole Yinchuan City Public China Holidays from here.

Now Chengtian Temple is also the location of Ningxia Museum. There are Ningxia history hall, relics in Western Xia Kingdom exhibition hall, and folk custom of Hui nationality exhibition hall and so on.

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Close to the Yellow RiverYangtze River tourand in southeast border of Tengger Desert, Shapotou is located in 20 kilometers west of Zhongwei City, about 200 kilometers from Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is famous for its desert ecological management and incredible scenery. Reputed as one of the most beautiful deserts in China, Shapotou emerges Tengger desert scenery, Yellow River, mountain and oasis as a whole.
Main Sceneries of Shapotou

Shapotou tourist area is separated as two by the railway line from Baotou (Inner Mongolia) to Lanzhou (Gansu Province). The south is close to the Yellow River for water activities, like Yellow River drifting, slide rope flying across Yellow River etc. The north is bound by Tengger Desert for activities like desert driving, riding a camel to stroll around the desert and appreciating the beautiful sceneries of sunrise and sunset and so on.

Sand Slide

Shapotou is China’s largest natural sand slide fieldChina travel servicewith the length of 800 meters and is one of the four sounding sands in China. Sand slide is a big feature in Shapotou tourist area. Sliding down from the top with the height of one hundred meters, humming sound is like the echo of tolling bell in your ears, and it is called as “Golden Sand Tolling Bell”.
Ancient Waterwheel Relics

Ancient waterwheel is the symbol of the Yellow River culture. There are some waterwheel relics situated beside the river bend of Double Lions Mountain. These were built in the later period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.), and it is the oldest waterwheel in China. At the foot of Double Lions Mountain is the cradleland of Yellow River waterwheel, and here is also the place to take Yellow River drifting.
Sheepskin Raft

Paddling a sheepskin raft drifting on Yellow RiverChina travel dealsis an enjoyment. Sheepskin raft is an ancient tool to cross the Yellow River, which is made of whole sheepskin with cutting off head and hoof of goat, and then tiles closely and blows it to bulge. The raft is composed of 14 whole sheepskins, but it is light and portable generally.
Miracle of Preventing Desertification

The railway line from Baotou to Lanzhou is the main artery of northwest of China railway traffic, and it is the first railway to build on the desert area in China. It crosses through the desert for six times within border of Zhongwei City, and the slope in Shapotou is steep most, and sand storm is fierce. There are protecting wire nets with green sand plant on both sides of 55 kilometers railway line, which is like green Great Wall to keep the operation safety of the train and to prevent desertification. Desert Prevention achievement shocks the world, which is praised as “World’s Miracle in Preventing Desertification History”.

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Beijing Baiyun Guan(in literal translation: Beijing White-Cloud Taoist Temple affordable China tours) located on east side of Baiyun Road outside of Fuxinmen in Xicheng District of Downtown Beijing is one of three top awe-inspiring Taoist temples of Quanzhen Branch in Taoism.

Taoism is Chinese only native-born religion worshipping worship the ground Lao Zi treads on. Lao Zi traditionally is considered as the founder and supreme god among enormous gods appeared later. In tenet of Taoism, Dao or is immanent. The holy book of Taoism is Daode Jing or,which was said to be written by Lao Zi who lived before Confucius and also the teacher of Confucius . Lao Zi in Zhou Dynasty took the position of national library librarian. But Taoism esteemed as a type of religion was initially founded by Zhang Ling, living in East Han Dynasty. In this way, Taoism was youngest among three largest and most influential religious beliefs if Confucianism is also accepted

Beijing Baiyun Guan affordable China tours similar to many other historical sites also experienced a lot of ruins and destructions. Beijing Baiyun Guan was firstly built in 739 during Tang Dynasty and restored or reconstructed for several times during Ming and Qing Dynasties. Currently most remained architectures are inherited from Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The entire architecture of Baiyun Guan is divided into east part, west part and middle part. The back is a garden. Majority of architecture is concentrated in middle part, and they in turn are Pai Lou, Shan Men, Lingguan Hall, Yuhuang Hall, Laolv Pavilion or Qizhen Pavilion, Qiuzu Hall, Siyu Hall, Jietai Dias and Yunji Shanfang and so on. In total, there are more than 50 halls in different sizes with a total area of 20,000 square meters. Learnt from the good points of southern and northern design and building methods of halls, palaces and garden, the whole architectural complex is quite grand and breath-taking. The inside layout design is also quite humanity-oriented and scientific. The insides of halls, pavilions and palaces are decorated with Taoism-themed stories and images. Qiuzu Hall as the main building in whole architectural complex China Photo Tour mainly memorizes Taoist Qiu Chuji, who was famous in Chinese martial-art novels. In this hall, there is a Qiu’s Statue. And under the statue, Qiu’s remain is buried.

Baiyun Guan is the first Taoist temple of Quanzhen Branch since Ming Dynasty and also the largest Taoist architectural complex. Assimilated many other valuable buildings styles and methods, Baiyun Guan is surely a treasure both in spirituality and materiality


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Dumpling is a traditional Chinese food. With a long history, this kind of food usually can be seen and enjoyed in northern China, cooking with small limps of dough either with meat or vegetables. Originally, this is just a common home-cooked meal, but with people’s creative idea, Dumpling BanquetChina tour dealsappeared. And also, it is reputed as ‘Three Matchless Foods in Xian’ together with famous Fang Tang Dish and Cruded Pancake in Mutton Soup.

History

As long as talking about the Dumpling Banquet, dumplings must be mentioned firstly. Dumpling was a popular food even can be traced back to over 2,000 years ago in ancient Chang’an city (today’s Xi’an city).

Then, how about the Dumpling BanquetChina tour deals? It is said one day Yang Yuhuan (one beloved imperial concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang) would like to eat one food with stuffings and also it should be a steamed one. The clever cook knew that she was in favor of chicken, so made steamed dumplings with chicken for her; and the result was she liked very much. Hence, ‘Guifei Zhengjiao’ as a delicacy in court handed down even till today. Then we come to the existing one. Xi’an Dumpling Banquet Hotel is the first one offering Dumpling Banquet; originally, it was a dumpling restaurant in Jiefang Road. With more than 50 years history, their dumplings are famous and welcomed in Xian. Later, for a better development, since 1984, the restaurant set about learning how to make a successful Dumpling Banquet, not only to other cities but among the people.
Features and Breakthrough Points

Various materials: not only using general used materials, but with other delicious and eutrophic onesChina travel videos. For example, kinds of meat (chicken, duck, fish, pork etc.), in season fresh vegetables and also other delicacies.
Kinds of Taste: ‘one hundred dumplings, one hundred tastes’, people can enjoy kinds of taste in a Dumpling Banquet, such as spicy, sweet, curry and so forth.
Different Making Methods: there are basic four which are steam, fry, decoct and stew. But because of the different materials, other methods also can be used, such as stir-fry, quick-fry, braise, boil etc.
Fantastic Shapes: here, people will find a large number of dumplings in vivid shapes, such as goldfishes, pearls, butterflies, gold ingots, nests, flowers etc.
A Combination with others: traditionally, people eat dumplings only; but in a Dumpling BanquetChina travel videos, dumplings are the main role but not the only, together with cold dishes, hot dishes, drinks and so on.

Yulongsha Lake tourist area last minute China travel deals is one comprehensive tourist attraction that has gathered the deserts, plains, mountain forest, lakes and the customs of Mongol nationality merging into one organic whole, which has been known as the most recent and most beautiful great desert scenic area. It has been listed as the national AAAA ecological scenic spot.

The first dragon of China as the world-famous Hongshan culture landmark of the Neolithic Period had turned up at the site that had made the China's 5,000 long years ancient civilization's cradle had traced forward for more than a thousand years, thus it has got its present name of Yulongsha Lake. Yulongsha Lake holiday zone is very famous for its integrated desert, sandy area, ancient pines, grotesque rocks, picturesque cragged peaks, wetlands, grasslands and lakes.

Broad prairies with 50,000 mu in area is connected to the vast and boundless Inner Mongolia's Horqin Sands China travel service . There's a spring of clear cold water in sandy areas, which had accumulated water to become a lake in the desert. There's one lake with an area of about 14,000 mu in the desert. There're over ten Sand Islands in the lake, which had formed the unique sandy lake landscape of a lake in the desert, an island in the lake, the grasses on the island and the birds in the grass.

There's the beautiful and bright day under the clear blue sky from April to October every year, with the white sand and crystal clear water, the green grass and forest. Visitors all flocked to the Yulongsha Lake scenic area. The successive sand dune in Yulongsha Lake tourist area is very huge and steep, with the average vertical elevation of about 75 meters.

The crescent-shaped sand of the natural slope What & Where to buy in China is about 70 to 100 meters in height. The little grains of sand are the quartz grains of sand, its glittering and translucent particles spreading evenly. The sand groups with the huge and steep relative relief could serve as an ideal place for the public outdoor activities.

In order to let the mass travelers get in touch with the charm of the outdoor tourism culture, according to the features of the sandy geography, the scenic spot had settled the sandy projects on the different function areas, including wild camping, car camp and so on. The broad and level sand hill had even made the area the first choice for developing the cross-country race in the desert.

All visitors that came into the scenic spot for sightseeing could go by the professional desert cross-country vehicles, go into the hinterland of the great desert and drink in the beauty of the sea of sand that stretches for four hundred kilometers, one of the twelve largest deserts all over the country.

In the lake is also grown a wide variety of fishes like the carp, crucian carp, silver carp, catfish, etc. There's the boundless expanse of the edge of the great desert to the north of the lake. One very strange-looking Stone Mountain reared high on the plains.


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Reliably Speaking, Lingyin Temple China travel deals was built in326 when Southern China was in the reign of East Jin Dynasty. Up to today, the history of Lingyin Temple has been more than 1600 years. Lingyin Temple becomes the earliest Buddhist Temple in Hangzhou. Its name origins have been mentioned above. During the reign of Wuyue Kingdom (907-978), when China was separately under the administration of five Dynasties and roughly ten kingdoms, the King Qian Chu was a worshipper of Buddhism. Lingyin Temple with his help developed quickly, which was mainly embodied in the extension of buildings---there were 9 towers, 18 pavilions, 72 halls and more than 3000 monks in Lingyin Temple.

During Northern Song Dynasty, some scholars ranked buddhist temples of Jiangnan region, and Lingyin Temple was ranked first as the Top Zen Buddhist Temple. At the time, China had a list of Buddhist Temple named Wushan Shilin( Five Buddhist Mountains and Five Buddhist Forests China travel service), and Lingyin Temple was ranked the top of it. Lingyin Temple indeed has the surroundings of retreat, which is in harmony with its name. The whole temple was deeply surrounded diversity of peaks and forests. Fei Lai Feng and Cold Spring are the fantastic attractions around Lingyin Temple.

During the southward visit of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, he was quite attracted by the gorgeous surroundings of Bei Gao Feng and joyfully inscribed the tablet for Lingyin Temple. But there was an interesting story. It was said that Emperor Kangxi made a mistake which embarrassed him a lot when him did not handle the layout of his handwritings well. The traditional Chinese of Ling. The upper part of the character is another independent character(rain), and the middle part is three口 in line and the bottom was also a character, 巫(wizard). Generally, traditional character of Ling is comprised of three parts. But he was too happy to care more about the whole structure of the character and wrote the Yu(雨) quite large, which did harm to the whole writing of Ling. He was troubled but could not tell followers. He considered for a minute. In a flash, he brought to mind that the surroundings of Lingyin Temple, especially the area of Bei Gao Feng always appeared the large scale of mist and covered the whole temple. He got an idea and added a character Yun, Cloud) below Yu, and imperially named Lingyin Temple Yun Lin Chan Si( Cloud-Forest Zen Monastery Public China Holidays ). Today’s huge tablet written by Emperor Kangxi is in front of Hall of the Heavenly Kings. However, the local people still preferred to call it Lingyin Temple.

Having experienced thousands of years, Lingyin Temple still kept well. During the period of Northern Expedition (1926-1927), The 31st Team's Colonel Xu Tujing under the leadership of Warlord Wu Peifu burnt down this time-honored temple rebuilt in the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty just for getting illegally a quite treasured legacy----Ancient Crock of Sheng Tian Tang, which was an ancient big crock originally used for immortality of Monk Bibo, the first governor of Lingyin Temple. 


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Situated in Olympic Green Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing National Stadium (Bird Nest) last minute China travel deals is the main stadium of track and field, football, gavelock, weight throw and discus of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as well as the place hosted the Opening and Closing ceremonies. Nowadays, it is the center of international and domestic sports competition and recreation activities, as well as a hot tourist attraction.

The design of this large stadium is very special, with the steel structures exposed entirely in the most natural appearance, which looks like a big nest. A bird nest embraces and nurses human beings. This stadium was designed together by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and Chinese architect Li Xinggang and the others. The construction started from December 24, 2003 and finished in March, 2008, which cost over 33 million dollars totally.

With an area of over 258,000 sqm, this stadium could accommodate over 200,000 people with 80,000 fixed seats and 11,000 temporary seats. The tallest point of the stadium China travel service is 68.5 meters above the ground and the lowest point is 42.8 meters. The saddle-shaped top is covered by waterproof, semi-transparent air bubble film, with which the sunshine could penetrate into the stadium to help the lawns to grow well.

What’s more, The National Stadium is not only the symbol building of the 2008 Olympic Games, but also the good example to show the world’s architectural history and achievements. the designs of everything in the National Stadium Holidays in China are humanistic. With the bowl-like stands zone surrounds the court, the stands can be changed in many ways to meet the different competitions’ needs, besides, the temporary seats, which were set at the top of the scientifically distributed rows of stands, with the fixed seats to help the spectator to enjoy the game without any visual obstruction. With the electro-acoustic public address system, which makes the index of voice definition reaches 0.6, all the audience can hear the broadcast clearly.

Nowadays, besides sightseeing in the National Stadium, tourist can also go skiing here, which boasts the largest ski resort in urban Beijing.


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