The No. 1 interest we visited Yangshuo is the 500 people life show of Impression Liu Sanjie, but we never know it would be so difficult to get show tickets for National Day Holidays. We arrived on Oct 3, the hotel owner told us no tickets for the next 3 days, and we have to wait until Oct 6.
The show we eventually booked started at 21h30, it is the 3rd show that night, we had to walk miles to the theatre, trafic jam everywhere in Yangshuo….
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We were informed that Tibet will be closed to all foreingers from Jun 25 to Jul 25. For a whole month! Have to pospone my trip to Tibet till August.
China is ready to celebrate the 60th year ceremony of Tibet liberation in July…
How joyful it was to be an airport pickup representative of HRC! Every day I had abundant opportunities of meeting and communicating with foreign guests who came to Guangzhou for the April Canton Fair. What’s more, I felt most thrilling when the guest, among many many arrivers at the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, said that the name on the sign board was right his or her. I kept encouraged and waiting just for the happy moment cause that was worth my time!
I learned to be patient and I was equipped with a better know-how of dealing with foreign guests. I won’t say no if I’m given a second intern chance!
I was quite lucky to have internship at HRC. I have a long list of those warm names I’d like to say thank-you to, like Uncle Billy, Ms Qin and Ms Yu. It is they who helped and guided us with our tasks. Indeed million thanks for them.
The internship was actually entertainment and learning. I enjoyed easy-breezy chat with foreign friends who attended the April Canton Fair, I enjoyed the spell of waiting with sign boards in our hands at the Guangzhou airport pick-up area, I enjoyed the busy way my collegues and I dealt with emergency and the later set-at-rest! The lovelier thing was that I could learn through such entertainment. I improved my oral English, understood the culture gap between countries and became more patient, more effecient and calmer after going through various situations.
Well, I really learned a lot via the internship. I believe this can do much good to my future job.
I am Jessica, a university student in Guangzhou and a volunteer to welcome clients who attended Canton Fair this April. It was my first time to work 8 days for HRC, a travel agent that helped people book hotels in Guangzhou…So happy to be an intern of HRC! Apart from earning a little bit of perdiem, which was financially helpful to my family, I could deepen my understanding of society through such an experience.
Among plenty of folks I met during the airport pick-up service, Ms Qin was one of the most impressive. She was always industrious and responsible, vastly strengthening my confidence in the internship. Other colleagues were also pretty nice. I found no complaint but inter-support and care. These lovely guys even asked for extra work. I know they just wanted to convey their happiness and hope to the foreign guests and others.
Although it often took long time for our guests to arrive at the airport and we kept waiting and waiting, all the gloom was gone the moment I picked them up. “Hey, I’m the very person to pick you up!” I usually uttered when I found my guests. Then I would enjoy happy chat with them until I took them to the taxi.
It was Xiaoyu’s idea to stay in Yangshuo Resort, a newly built hotel a little bit far away from west street. She liked photos on the Internet, whispered to me again and again for every arrangement in detail for our 10 year anniversary. Generally speaking, i do not care so much well to sleep, after so many years of marriage…
I definitely could not understand why my wife was so exited all the time, after checking with this riverside hotel, to me, it is no difference than a beach resort…well, it is peaceful, the breakfast is good, hotel staffs are frinedly, rooms are quite better than my expectation…but there is no elevator to my room, you have to walk a long way from the lobby to room, a long way to pool, only a towel on my boby, no privacy at all!
Frankly speakly, I do not like the idea of a bathtub in the middle of the room, an open bathroom! Xiuyu likeed to enjoy her serial soap opera on TV, characterized by stock characters, in the tub.
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At 07h00, we took bus No. 7 at HongTaiYang Square, to watch the show of Impression Lijiang Jokul, at the foot of Yulong Snow Mountain. The bus ticket cost was RMB 15, much cheaper than the taxi fare. The taxi driver asked for RMB 400 for round trip!
The bus stoped at the entrance of the Yulong Snow Mountain, and we were asked to display the ticket for “old town of Lijiang protection fee”, why asked here? They charged RMB80 per person.
Three different parking lot at Yulong Snow Mountain
Parking lot No. 1
The bus Lijiang/Yulong Snow Mountain stopped and parked at the parking lot No. 1, please remember this! It took us hours to find the bus back to Lijiang in the afternoon, people told us there was sign somewhere, but we could not read Chinese…We had to keep on repeating LIJIANG, LIJIANG…it worked…someone helped us eventually.
Parking lot No. 2
No one knows where these buses would go.
Parking lot No. 3
The show of Impression Lijiang Jokul takes place here.
Impression Lijiang Jokul
People told us that we could take free shuttle bus to watch the show of Impression Lijiang Jokul. When we get of the cable car, we were completely lost. where is the Impression Lijiang Jokul?
A Chinese tried his best to tell us: When we left the cable car to the Glacier Park, we were at the Parking lot No. 1, we should walk through the waiting hall to the north exit, to catch the free shuttle bus to Parking lot No. 3. The theatre of Impression Lijiang Jokul is there.
We made it! Pay attentions to all these problems you might have to face:
1) Shops everywhere in the lobby of the Parking lot No. 1, hard to find the north exit, no sign in English;
2) At the north exit, different bus stations, no sign in English, the bus back to Lijiang also leaves here. The bus from Yak Meadow/Impression Lijiang Jokul stops and picks you up, but you have to wait at the right place!
3) If you can not find the bus, walk 10 minute to the theatre of Impression Lijiang Jokul. Ask the staffs the direction by showing your ticket.
4) After the show of Impression Lijiang Jokul, walk back to the Parking lot No. 1, to catch the bus back to Lijiang.
It is the 4th day of our staying in Lijiang, we planned to go to the Yulong Snow Mountain. At the entrance of the park, we were asked to pay RMB80 for the Lijiang old town protection fee…do not know why…
Problems of cable cars
We were very confused for what which cable car we should take: Yunshanping or Yak Meadow? No one at the booking office could explain the difference…20 minutes passed, someone radioed a group tour guide, Sam….he was good enough to help us. We chosed to take the Grand Cable Car to see the Glacier Park. The ticket to the Glacier Park is RMB 172.
Related informations of three different types of Cable cars on Yulong Snow Mountain:
The Grand Cable Car
It goes to the Glacier Park, the top attractin of Yulong Snow Mountain, the highest spot where you can see the summit if weather permits. The cable car station on the summit was built on an elevation of 4,500 m, wooden trails continue to extand through the mountain and ends on an elevation of 4,680 m.
The Yunshanping Cable Car
It also named as the small cable car, not many people tade it after the Grand Cable Car has been used. The Yunshanping is some type of meadow on the 4,506 m high mountain.
The Yak meadow Cable Car
It goes to another high latitude mountain meadow, on the mountain top, you might trek around the trekking trails in the large areas of serac forest and meadows for hours.
The Glacier Park
The wooden trails start from the the upper station are well constructed and maintained. It is not so easy to walk on the elevation of 4,500m anyway. We had to breathe deeply, walked slowly, rest between every 10 steps.
The summit of Yulong Snow Mountain was hidden in huge clouds all the time…
My husband and I booked one King view room for just one night in Yangshuo Tangrenjie Hotel last week. The little balcony had a fine view over the Li River and the nearby karsts, and was particularly good when looking out at them lit up at night.
All was very clean and spacious and efficient. The front desk was a pleasure to deal with. Lots of smiles and always someone on hand to speak English if necessary.
It’s an easy walk to West Street and around Yangshuo. There’s a bike hire place on the pavement opposite the hotel, and to have a private mountain bike for leisure time.
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The location of Guishan Hotel, on the river and a bit out of town, suited us (we were staying for a conference being held in the hotel). It was only a 15 minute walk into town and it was probably the quietest Chinese hotel we’ve stayed in.
The hotel is very quiet. We walked arond the bank of Li River after dinner. I think it was good for a holiday.
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My friends and I went to Guilin and then took Li River Cruise to Yangshuo. We stayed at Li River Retreat for two nights. It really is what its name says: a retreat. The atmosphere was friendly and relaxed and we felt totally at home. At night, we were so exciting and had a good time in the West Street where people came from all over the world.
The view from the Li River Retreat is just beautiful. It’s up on the hillside looking out over the Li River. The breathtaking sunsets, the early morning’s steam rising from the river, the peacefulness of the place – it’s simply a gorgeous place!
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I traveled throughout China with a music ensemble and stayed at three hotels in all. Guilin Park hotel was the best by far. The staff was knowledgeable and spoke english well as my chinese was not so good.
The nearby lake gave a splendid view, especially at night and a great place for a refreshing walk. The hotel was within easy walking distance to town and the night market.
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After an unbelievably long flight from the U.S., 6 days at the functional but spare YMCA in Hong Kong and another long flight from Guangzhao to Guilin – the Lijiang Waterfall hotel was a sight for tired eyes! Our group literally walked through the expansive lobby, discovered our enormous, divan-covered beds and whooped with joy. This was luxury! Our 3 day stay in Guilin was too short – this is one of the most peaceful and romantic cities I visitied in China. Many people in our group went out at night to the markets, which were located only a few minutes from the hotel.
The staff assisted us in making phone calls home to the U.S. and changed money without hassle. The “waterfall” is remarkable to see too – a flood of water cascading over the entire side of the building. I would recommend this lovely, centrally-located hotel for any traveler.
About my trip in Guilin and Yangshuo, biking through the countryside to Caoping Village，walking along the Li River, unbelievable paradise experience.
I stayed Jingguanminglou Holiday Hotel for one of my weekend holiday this Augest. Of all the hotel rooms I stayed in China, this is the one that felt most Chinese. I fell in love with a room that the manager called their ’special’ room. It was furnished with old antique furniture (see picture) and had a great view of lake and bridges. In other words, to stay at the room was by itself the reason to stay at this hotel.
That was an enjoyable weekend holiday for me. More information of Jingguanminglou Holiday Hotel……
We enjoyed our stay at the Li River Hotel. It is clean and the complimentary breakfast is great. Remember Yangshuo is a village which sets among the wonderful mountains and luxury is not a great commodity there. It is very casual. We loved the West Street with all the shops. There are better buys in Yangshuo than in Guilin.
Also we enjoyed the night show of Impression liusanjie. It was wonderful and should be the must seeing thing in Yangshuo.
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i first go to guiling for business trip, After i finished the negoation for the business, my friend told me the view of the guiling is very beautiful ,then i go to he Dragon River Reteat, when i arrived the Dragon River Reteat the sevice is very kindly,the girls in the hotel can speak good enlish, they are kindly and smlies to every coustom. The food in this hotel is very delicious.
This is a great place to explore the Yangshou countryside by bike and to relax. More information of Yangshuo Dragon River Retreat…..
Longying Hotel are highly recommended from me . And make sure to call the hotel you will stay for luggage transported from the parking lot to the village necessarily you have to do which is about 25 minutes’ walk up on fields pass to avoid the hassle from those groups of helpers waitting and contesting to carry your each piece of luggage for 10 Yuan.
The Longji Rice Terrace was so amazing, especially, the sunset and sunrise. I believe it was created by god. A good place for vocation.
I am a expat in China. And my wife and I went to Guilin this November for a short vocation. A friend of mine recommended Fubo Hotel to me. So we booked it through sinowaytravel directly. Our room overlooked the Li River and great views of the remarkable hills that make up the city and countryside of Guilin. The location was great, too. We could walk right out the front door, across the street, and have a pleasant walk along the river. People practiced Tai Chi in the mornings. The breakfast buffet in the morning had western and Chinese food, rooms were comfortable and the staff pleasant and helpful. The hotel shop had great souvenirs as well as every necessity. Great hotel for those who don’t need or want 5 stars.
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I stayed at Nerw West Street Hotel for my holiday in Guilin. The location is perfect and convenient. There are multiple cafes and shops adjacent to the hotel and the hotel is in this place called “West Street”, a place where foreign backpackers, friendly locals, an assortment of unique tourists and some international school groups all gather to have some fun. All shops are walking distance from the hotel and the staff are friendly and welcoming.
The hallways are nice and calm, unless there are school groups walking all about since international schools usually choose this hotel to stay. Lastly, this hotel is good for travellers and adventurers as the hotel can make specal arrangements to cormorant fishing, stone climbing, hiking and country cycling within Yangshuo. I think it was a happy time for me to stay at this hotel.
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This hotel is fine. Our (upgraded) room was modern , comfortable and fully equipped. and the public areas of the hotel seemed up to speed. Bar service and food pretty good, breakfast buffet fine; we tended to eat out. I’d stay again, without feeling that this was the best hotel I’d ever stayed in. Probably not a European five star but decent regardless. 
I’ve downgraded the location because IMO Guilin comes a distant second to 
as a base for the Li river, and the river and Karst scenery at and close to Guilin itself isn’t at its best.
We stayed at the New Century Hotel in Yangshuo, China, for just one night during our tour of China. We wish it could have been more nights! The hotel had excellent air conditioning (not found in many China hotels), was very clean, and the staff speaks good English. In addition, you can access the internet in the business center or in your room. The hotel is quiet and had a nice breakfast. We enjoyed the 5-minute walk to bustling West Street, with its myriad of vendors and restaurants.
Yangshuo is a great place to visit–the Li River cruise is beautiful and do not miss the show on the river at night (no need to buy the highest priced tickets–intermediate seats are fine). We highly recommend this hotel.
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We stayed at this hotel as part of 3 Days Classical Guilin Tour & were very pleased with the location.
An easy walk to the night markets, Banyan Lake Pagoda & elephant trunk hill.
Rooms were clean & tidy, although due for renovations, particulaly the bathrooms. Beds were very hard. No hairdryer was supplied in our room.
Internet was available downstairs at a very cheap rate.
Breakfasts were good, lots of variety. No juice was supplied, just a cordial type drink.
No problems with staff, they were all quite friendly.
My husband and I went to Guilin to visit my best friend Jen this October. Jen is a expat in Guilin. She booked Fortune Condominium Hotel for us. We stayed there for nearly one week. That was unforgetable time for us.
The hotel is located in the exclusive area of Seven-Star Park set in a higher residential area in the heart of Guilin. Close to International Conference and exhibition Center/ Nancheng Department Store and Shopping Centre both located in the Jia Tian Xia Plaza. I think its location is excellent for sightseeing and shopping.
Usually, we took a walk to the Seven Star Park and Chuan Shan Park. It was really a peaceful life for us in Guilin.
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I stayed one night in Guilin Plaza Hotel for business. It was a great hotel and the location is great- walk to the mogote park, and you can see then from your room. Near the Guilin International Exhibition Center and the Guilin Sports Center. For my business trip, the hotel’s location is great.
The hotel also has bicycles to rent which is a pretty cool way to get arund the town. the restuarant and bar have good food and huge bottle of the local lichuan beer for a reasonable rate.
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I went to Guilin for Leisure with my family this September. We stayed at Eva Inn Hotel for 3 nights. It has the prime location, excellent price and pleasant staff. It was right next to the Sheraton and next to the riverside at Li River and a very short walking distance to the city centre of Guilin. The hotel was the prefect choice for my family, including our 5 and 3 years old children. My kids had plenty of space to play and relax. I booked a deluxe riverside room (with king size bed with an extra bed).
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We spent 3 nights at the Sheraton Guilin Hotel, great loation, best in the town. This hotel is facing the Li River, nice for a walk along the river, walking distance of everything (shopping, 4 Lakes and food). The staff were helpful and try their best to speak English. They were so nice and friends.
Li River was the best for a 4 hours cruise and bus back to the hotel. This was the highlight of our trip. In Yangshuo, we enjoyed the impression show of sanjie liu which is around 7 pm.
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We stayed in Universal Guilin Hotel for two nights with a Li River view. The view from the rooms was magnificent. The rooms are clean and have panorama windows. Its location is excellent with transport available closeby. The lobby is beautiful and the staff very helpful and polite.
For the excellent location, we walked around the downtown of Guilin where there is a night market with many interesting and traditional things. Also, we took a walk on the bank of Li River and near the jiefang Bridge. The city view is very amazing!
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I’ve stayed in hundreds of Chinese hotels. At the price I paid, off the web, it is great value. One can pay a lot more for far worse hotels. Location of the Red Wall Hotel is convenient for Forbidden City and surroundings.
Room carpets very grubby – as they often are in China. But the room well cleaned.
What really makes it is the staff – friendly, competent, and helpful. Several spoke very good English.
I’d come from a four star ‘international’ hotel in Yangzhou. The staff there spoke almost no English.
20 minutes walk from the subway station – not convenient, but any bus going along the road will take you from hotel to subway or vice versa for 1 yuan.
I also went to the nearby Lama Temple by subway, it was a nice visit.
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We booked Hotel Grand 0773 as a one-night stopover before heading to Yangshuo. It was a great little hotel, exactly what we needed. The hotel has decent english spoken, friendly staff. We booked it through sinowaytravel.com. At night, we took a walk through Two Rivers and Four Lakes which is really a quiet and beautiful place with music, water, and trees….
We were pleasantly surprised! Far better than the dilapidated wooden furniture we’d expected at a 3-star hotel in China! The bathroom was perfect – looked newly done and like those in a 4 or 4 1/2 star hotel. There was no noise of any sort, from the street or other rooms/corridors, so we all slept well.
We’d recommend this hotel as a good value, clean, friendly option for a night or two, and would definitely stay here again. If you want to know more about this hotel, you can visit its website of sinowaytravel.
My husband and I celebrated our ten year anniversary this August. Staying in Huaxia Hotel Xiamen, nice surroundings, our window faces the ocean, fresh breeze coming in at night. We took a nice walk every morning.
On the first day, we went to nearby attractions in Xianmen, The Hakka Earthen Buildings is something worth to see, an old fortress at Hulishan is a good hiking stop.
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Hello, everyone. To foreign tourists and businessman, here are some living accommodation, diet tips and precaution. If you have never come to Shanghai, it can help you a lot.
Hotel Choosing
1. Transportation to be convenient. Travelers have a tight schedule, and often visit many places in one day. Therefore, the transportation problem must be fore.
Registration
1. Show you passport, resident identity card or other relevant documents when check in.
2. Check-out time is generally set at 12 noon next day.
3. Friends and relatives for visiting cannot be overnight
Hotel notes
1. Carry the valuables and shut the door when leaving.
2. Do not smoke in bed.
3. Do not use the towel in hotel as well as possible.
4. If you stay in a 4-star or 5-star hotel, do not use the internet. The fee is so high and the speed is low. In Shanghai, you can rent a 3G internet and you can use it anywhere in China. Please see the website for more detail. www.3grental.com
5. Find out what is need for an additional fee to use and which is free of charge in order to avoid doubt when settlement.
Dining
1. Recommend breakfast in your hotel because many hotels offer a free buffet-style breakfast.
2. Try not to order the dishes labeled “market price”.
3. Do not have the dinner in your hotel because of the high cost. There are many food plaza in the downtown, delicious and cheap.
Entertainment
1. Almost all the entertainment field has different price of different period of time.
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I luckly visited another wonder of the ancient China –Hanyangling Mausoleum (its official name is Han Yang Ling Musuem) which is on the way to Xian airport, north of Xian city.
In Han yangling Mausoleum, there are also many lines of armed vivid warriors, rows of undressed maids, hordes of pigs, horses, sheeps,dogs, and chickens (the ancient chicken quite likes the pigeon nowadays). These reveal the true social life and palace culture of Han dynasty (2200 years ago). Amazing and shocked!
Actually, all of these are the grave goods of Emperor Jindi (188BC-141BC, also named Liu Qi)and his Empress. Emperor Jindi, together with his father Emperior Wendi, opened a golden era of harmony in 2200 years ago, which was famously regarded as “the Great Reign of Wendi & Jindi” in China history.
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Kathy and I went to Xian for our 5 year wedding aniversary this march. Our friends in Xian took us to the famous Tang Dynasty Dinner Show. it is mostly an ancient music and dancing show in a traditional style building.
Before the Tang Dynasty Dinner Show, the guests will be invited to attend Jiaozi Banquet (Chinese Dumpling), which may follow the ancient customs of their people that the show always begins after attendee eating and drinking to repletion.
I watched the show in Sunshine Lido Grand Theatre next to the Xian Ancient City Wall. At the beginning, as usual, I degusted different kinds of Jiaozi as dinner, then rose of the curtain with a martial music by a royal drum:
The Tang Dynasty Dinner Show lasts for 1 hour and different kinds of music drama, dancing and musical instrument are presented.
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We took an excursion through the Daning River Samll Gorges, which are narrower than the Three Gorges, but very impressive. Then we entered Xiling Gorge, the longest (41 mile), and the deepest of the Three Gorges. In the evening, we sailed through the Three Gorges Dam ship locks. Below is the itinerary for the 3rd day:
- 06:00 Complimentary Early Bird Coffee & Tea are served;
- 06:30 Practice Tai Chi with Dr. Wu;
- 07:00 Victoria Express enters the first Gorge, the Qutang Gorge. Passage through this 5-mile (8 Km) gorge takes only 20 to 30 minutes. Commentary starts at 6:45 by the river guide Curtis can be heard on Deck 4 and 5;
- 07:30 Breakfast Buffet service begins.
- 08:45 Shore Excursion: Passengers disembark for their shore excursion. A smaller motoized vessel carried us through the picturesque Lesser Gorges, along a tributary of the Yangtze, the Daning River. Later we changed to a smaller boat that took us to a part of the “Lesser Lesser Gorges”.
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On 26th June, Fridany. I was boarding Victoria Express to start my 4-day/3-night yangtze cruise trip. All the passengers in the ship had a good time for the Victoria Cruise Fashion Show started from 20:00 after dinner. The actress and actors showed us variety of Chinese traditional costumes from all regions and periods of Chinese history, amazing and impressive. Must see on the Yangtze River Cruise.
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Day 1: Boarding in Chongqing
Day 2: Fengdu Ghost City
Day 3: Wushan, Daning River Small Gorges, Lesser Lesser Gorges
Day 4: Three Gorges Dam
We took Yangtze cruise from Chongqing, the crusie docked at Fengdu, a plethora of demon-decorated temples, buildings and statues in this river town earned it the moniker “Ghost City” – the carved facades are truly fascinating. and a shore excursion could be arranged in the afternoon. I was a little bit nervous because I has never met ghost but was also eager to see it. The itinerary for the whole day is as below:
- 06:00 Early bird coffee & tea service on Yangtze Club, Deck 4;
- 07:30 Dr.Wu teaches the art of Tai Chi-Shadow Boxing on Yangtze Club, Deck 4;
- 08:00 Breakfast Buffet service begins on Dynasty Dining Room, Deck 1;
- 09:15 “Ancient Waters, the Timeless Yangtze” – An information introduction to the Yangtze RIver and the Three Gorges by river guide Curtis on Yangtze Club, Deck 4;
- 10:15 CHINESE MEDICINE- Dr.Wu provides an insight into the theory and practice of traditional healing therapies on Yangtze Club, Deck 4;
- 12:00 Lunch Buffet is served;
- 13:15 Shore Excursion: Victoria Express is docked at Fengdu. Passengers go ashore to the “City of Ghosts” and visit the Ghost City Temple. The temple area on top of Ming Mountain pays tribute to the “King of the Underword”. (This is a walking excursion, there are some stairs and inclines to climb. Be sure to wear good walking shoes, watch your step and beware of ghosts. But you also can take a chair-lift to the entrance for 20 Yuan roundtrip)
- 16:00 Passengers return to the ship
- 18:15 Captain’s Welcome Reception: Captain Yang cordially invites all passengers for appetizers and refreshments on Yangtze Club, Deck 4;
- 19:00 Dinner (Set Dinner Service) on Dynasty Dining Room, Deck 1;
- 20:00 Victoria Cruise Fashion Show: The crew models a variety of Chinese traditional costumes from all regions and periods of Chinese history.
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Instead of applying visa through Vietnam Embassy, all you need to do now is to complete the online application form and pay us. Within 12 business hours after receiving your payment, we will send you pre-approved letter with code for picking up visa upon arrival Vietnam at the airport (airport at Hochiminh or Hanoi or Danang city)
For Visa application, we need the following information:
- Full name (Name as in passport)
- Sex (male/ female)
- Date of birth
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- Passport number
- Arrival date
- Arrival flight number
- Departure date
These information will be sent to Vietnam Immigration Department, they will issue a letter of visa upon arrival for you. This letter will be scanned, sent to your email address or your fax. You will be allowed to get on board at departure airport with copy of this letter At arrival airport in Vietnam, you can get the visa with this letter, your original passport, 25USD/ person/ single entry visa or 50USD/ person/ multiple entries visa and 02 photos 4CMx6CM.
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Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles is organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd.; the Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT; and China Home Textile Association (CHTA). The show will be held concurrently with Yarn Expo 25-Aug-09 to 27-Aug-09 2009 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.
Opening time:
Day 1 0900 to 1800 Trade only
Day 2 0900 to 1800 Trade only
Day 3 0900 to 1700 Trade only
Admission price
Admission to Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles is free-of-charge.
Admission regulations
The fair is open to trade buyers only
You may present your business card at the registration counter or register via the link to get the registration badge. A computerised registration system will be in use to record every entry into the fairground.
Sightseeing and shopping tours after attending the Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles…
Guilin has about the amount of inhabitants of Bremen. With the cosy walks along the river and lakes I don’t feel there are only people, people and people surrounding you like I had last time.
China has deep contradictions in its society.
I ask myself what keeps it together?
There is the different way of living city versus countryside. Farmers still live the old way and in the cities there is “modern” live and booming economy. People are well dressed in western style, move independently with self confidence.
In the countryside the old structures still exist with a few modern buildings in between.
Young generation doesn’t care much about the paty and political issues, pursues its own life what ever this is, is styled very modern fashioned and behaves with confidence looking for a fulfilling life on their own in western life style. Old Generation has difficulties to cope with the economical development.
You don’t see police in the streets, but the party controls the politics and major decisions. Young people just let them do their thing.
Handy everywhere, well I have a Chinese Mobile SIM card, too.
Traveling in China is well organized, easy and comfortable since you have plenty of people in all kind of services. First of all one thing is unusual for us. If you want to buy something in a shop, there are several employees around you, talking and help you find what you want. Service everywhere, mostly young ladies, at least one head smaller than you. If you ask for something, it′s done in a minute.
I can call my tour consultant Foring (almost) anytime for help.
It is only a pity, that with almost all the people I meet, I cannot talk to.
Longji dragons backbone terrasse rice fields just below the Zhuang village Ping an. We are in the land of several minorities. They live in wooden houses and live of tourism and their agricultural production.
We drove up a steep and narrow valley. So the villages we visited seem to be in a hidden valley.
Me with two old Zhuang ladies in front of their house. We walked up the steep hill with many other tourists along many houses where the minority people sold handmade things. I could not resist to by a colorful blanket for a small table. I think Joi rolled his eyes.
On the way up we had a stop around noon for lunch. Bamboo rice
and bamboo chicken we ordered. The rice as well the chopped chicken are stuffed into the bamboo with small pieces of vegetable and the chicken in addition with slices of ginger and dried hot pepper.
Then the bamboo is grilled as you can see. The rice was a little sweet from the bamboo, the best rice I ever had. The chicken was juicy with an overwhelming taste. I still can feel it in my mouth.
After descending we visited a show where girls from the Zhuang minority in traditional cloth showed traditional dances. Then they were looking for volunteer men. Of course I volunteered and was married to a minority girl. They demonstrated a traditional wedding, where I for example had to sing, dance, beat cooked rice until it was like clue (for wedding balls with nuts in it as a special dish)…
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Today the Guillin tour starts at 9:30. Mo, tourist guide is humorous, relaxed and speaks English quite well. We talk about everyday subjects besides informations about the spots we visited. Just political questions he just did not hear.
Our driver brought us to the flute cave. I have never seen a cave like this with so many different shapes created by the steady water drops within million of years.
After climbing Elephant Trunk Hill we had lunch at Fubo Hotel. There is a nice story about the Elephant Trunk Hill: Surrounding Guilin there are many rice fields. At a terrible drought gog just sent an elefant to Guilin to spray the water of the Li River to the fields with his trunk. Well and he is still there. After lunch we visited the Fubo Shan Hill (sieging the waves). Time by time the waves of the river created caves into the front of the hill. Some of them used to host “1000″ buddhas. From top of Fubo Shan we had an impressing and wonderful view to the skyline of the peaks arround Guilin.
In the evening I went with Mo to the rivercruise through the iluminated Guilin, an absolute highlight. There was only one seat vacant in the ship. So Mo just left me with the Chinese guide. Luckily a lady from Taipeh translated some of the information the chinese guide gave without any interruption. Well I always get along somehow. Well almost all the people I met in Guilin only spoke the Chinese language.
Before the boattrip Mo took me to a restaurant where they had fish, turtles, snakes and other animals just alive. A fish was taken out of the basin with a net and smashed on the ground and the weight of duck was measured. There it was……the bamboo rat in a cave. It looks like a grey ball of fir. I rather ordered chicken Szechuan style, which means hot sauce with lots of red pepper in it. Sidedishes were vegetables, soup and tofu. The chicken was chopped into small pieces together with bones including one claw and the fried head. I tried averything and Mo certified that I will have no problem with traveling in China after eating this meal. He had to get some medicine for his stomach.
I forgot to mention, for Leni I got an oldfashioned dress at the flute cave after bargaining it down to 150 Yuan. …you say a prize, you say a prize…..
Now I got my 600mL bottle of local beer out of the freezer of my bar.
Tomorrow, well it is already today, I will do the one day Longji Dragon´s Baqckbone Rice Terraces Tour, starting 8:15.
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After a rest in the afternoon I met Foring, my tour consultant in the lobby of my hotel to go out for dinner.
She chose a huge restaurant famous for goose. So we enjoyed the goose in two different styles, crispy baked the way we know from Christmas and chopped into small pieces fried with delicious sauce. The first part of the goose was cut into handy pieces with bones, which you eat with chopsticks without fingers. The other one we wrapped into a sort of small Tortilla together with thin sticks of onion, cucumber and pepper. This was my favorite. Of course the waitresses brought delicious soup and vegetables besides. I had a local beer and Foring coconut juice and together we drank some tea with white flowers. Foring, I hope I did not forget any essential part.
The smile in her face was natural, although I asked her to say Niko Niko (the name of the shopping mall) which means smile smile. She smiled all the time and it was wonderful to talk with her. She smiled all the time only partly due to me, she still is in honeymoon just married since two months. Besides political issues in China and informations about Europe we talked about the question if it is better to have one or two children. Well she actually is allowed to get two children, since she and her husband come from a single child family. So the question is not purely academic and she tends towards two children. Foring, thanks for the time you spent with me. I really can recomend her as tour consultant if you plan visit China. She is very professional in her job.
Good night, after the computerwork I´ll go to bed. My guide for the Guillin tour will pick me up at 9:30 tomorrow morning.
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Now it is Thursday 22:00 and I am not tired yet. I like my room in Guilin Park Hotel with access to internet. I just came home with taxi because I got lost and it is less than 10 Yuan (1 EURO equals about 9 Yuan)to take a taxi within downtown Guilin.
Guilin is fantastic what I could see in dark. The Li river, bridges, lakes, hotels and parks along the water are illuminated.
I walked down the main street with all the shops. In 2001 Inge and me, we were in Peijing and Shanghai, but that is nothing compared to Guilin today. The Quality of cloth is high with modern fashion. February in Venice Inge and me, we admired the well dressed young ladies. Now I know where the cloth, shoes etc come from.
I went into a gigantic department store for cloth, jewelry, electronics and all kind of high quality you can imagine. All written in Chinese, just the name of the labels I could read.
Inge what size does Leni have? For example I found “Lackschuhe” in Leni´s size f0r 68 Yuan.
Nevin, I almost bought shoes for me.
I couldn´t find the name of the departmentstore, all written in Chinese. At the side entrance I finally found “Niko Niko Do Plaza”.
In the upper flor, there is a restaurant, very convenient for tourists. All kind of dishes are displayed. From the waitress you get a receipt and then you ask the cooks behind the many displays to stamp the number into the receipt. Then the waitress gets the food for you. I chose duck with rise. Tee was served in addition. I payed 18 Yuan for the delicious food.
The saying “living like God in France” should be changed to “living like God in China”.
I wonder where Foring, my tour consultant from Guilin will take me to dinner tomorrow with her collegue. I read in the tourist guide, that bamboo rats or snake soup are specialities of Guilin.
Well now I will drink a cold Tsingtao beer from the minibar of my room and then go to bed.
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The apparent winning bidder for two prized Chinese sculptures in a Paris auction surfaced Monday, a Chinese collector and auctioneer who said it was his patriotic duty to refuse to pay the $40 million he had pledged.
Cai Mingchao said at a news conference in Beijing that he had made the anonymous successful bids last week for the 18th-century bronzes, the heads of a rat and a rabbit. Cai described himself as a consultant with the Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, a nongovernmental group that seeks to bring looted artifacts back to China.
The bronzes were part of the high-profile sale last week of the collection of the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his personal and business partner, Pierre Bergé. The three-day auction, held in Paris, was the most lucrative ever for a private collection, bringing in about $484 million, according to Christie’s, the auction house.
“I think any Chinese person would have stood up at that moment,” Cai said of his bid, made by telephone through Christie’s. “It was just that the opportunity came to me. I was merely fulfilling my responsibilities.”
To protest the auction, Cai said, “I want to emphasize that the money won’t be paid.”
In the days leading up to the sale, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing had said the bronzes were part of China’s cultural patrimony and demanded their return. A group of Chinese lawyers tried to block the auction with a lawsuit, but a French court allowed the sale to proceed.
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Yves Saint Laurent Bronzes and the Old Summer Palace…
On March 3, we went to the Olympic Green, an Olympic Park in Beijing, constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The distinguish image of the huge Bird Nest was quite good for a good photo. Kids were happy with the activities on the park.
The Bird Nest is the centerpiece. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, and football finals of the Games. Many people were waiting for buying tickets to enter the Bird Nest.
The Bird Nest is a bowl shape with a red stand. It looks like a nest structure. It is made of gray mining steel covered with a transparent membrane.
Kids were more interested in the Water Cube, they asked if they could swim for at least half hour in the pool where Micheal Phelps made his record of 8 gold medals. We encouraged all kids to register for the games in 2020.
More people were waiting at the entrance of the Water Cube for tickets to go in!
The Water Cube hosted the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events in August, 2008, it is a semi-transparent “cube”, with “bubbles” spread out all over its surface, is a shape very similar to the structure of “H2O”.
We were told that openning hours to visit Water Cube and Bird Nest is from 09h00 to 17h30, but these two places were not open all the time! At Water Cube, limited people were allowed to visit every two hours! Even after standing for hours to get a ticket….Why so many people…We had to cancel our plan to go in.
The nearby Summer Palace was our choice in the afternoon.
D1 Feb 26 Kunming to Mile（143KM/2.5HRS）
We went to Mile to see the fire worshipping ceremony. The bus costed us RMB 55 per person run from the Passenger Terminal near the Kunming Railway Station to Mile.
Arrived Mile in the noon, we stayed overnight at Banshan Hot Spring.
In the afternoon, we visited the Dong Feng Grape Square of Mile County, the Endless Grape Garden of Yunnan Red Wine Factory and were lucky to discern the whole process of local wine making.
D2 Feb 27 Mile
Heading to the Hongwan Village. It is 22 kilometers over an asphalt mountain road from the county seat of Mile to Xiyi Township, where Hongwan Village is located.
It describes how the Axi tribe had been using natural fire in primitive times until a terrible flood extinguished it all. The flood occurred in early springtime, when the weather was freezing cold. The Axi stamped their feet, rubbed their hands and hugged each other to keep warm. A villager named Mudeng noticed from their actions that heat was produced by friction. He cleverly rubbed a wooden rod against a log until it finally caught a flame. The Axi people had fire and warmth once again, and from that day to this, they have referred to fire as mudeng.
The Axi practice polytheism, and believe that divinity manifests itself in every object in the universe in one form or another. They consider themselves descended from the tiger, and worship tiger-shaped totems. They respect the phallus with calabashes and stones. They worship everything: ancestors, heroes, demons, and divine objects, and of course, natural gods such as those of fire and water. As their god of fire is also an ancestor, the celebration for Mudeng is probably their most fascinating.
The ceremony took place on the third day of the second month according to the Chinese lunar calendar (around early to mid March), the day when Mudeng was said to have created fire. By reenacting the legendary event, the Axi people pay homage to the great ancestor who brought them out of the cold and dark, and they beg his spirit to protect their safety, happiness and prosperity.
D3 Feb 28 Mile to Kunming
After breakfast at a family-run inn, we were heading back to Kunming.
We spent two days in Beijing and had to use my time wisely. We had signed up for two tours through Sinoway Travel. The guides, Tim and Lucy, were punctual, spoke very clearly in English, and were totally accomodating. They are highly recommended by some of our friends, and I assumed that they would be best grabbed sooner.
The first half-day tour was of the Hutong area and the second day was Forbidden City and the Great Wall. She also had the driver stop by the Birds’ Nest so we could take pictures.
Obviously, the sooner I book, the less risk there is of missing out.
We’ve been in Sanya for about 6 days now and are just getting ready to get the train back to Guangzhou and then on to Hong Kong until saturday when we are finally leaving for Thailand! I’d like to say that we have travelled all over the island and done alot of sight seeing but that would be a lie as we’ve actually just been lying on a beach all day every day and then having a few beers in the evening with everyone else who is staying here.
The other day me and lucy were feeling slightly hungover and were getting extremely pissed off with the annoying little children who were sat next to us on the beach as it can be quite crowed, so we looked around and decided to walk futher along right to the other end where it looked almost deserted so we could have a little nap. Any way after walking for about 10 mintutes we finally reached the other side when i saw a man just standing there completely naked, me and lucy were very suprised, laughed but just carried on walking.
It was then that we noticed a group of about 50 chinese men all huddled together and all off them were completely starkers, it was not a pleasent sight! It then clicked why this part of the beach seemed to be deserted as it was obviously a nudest beach, we were very shocked to say the least. I think for a few moments the men had been quite excited at the prospect of having some female company but were very soon dissapointed and i think they could tell that we found it slightly amusing as we very unsublty bursted out laughing and walked off as quickly as possible in the other direction.
In the end we positioned ourselves far away enough from them so as not to see everything that was on display as we had brought our snorkels along and didnt really fancy accidently swimming into one of them having an afternoon dip. When we finally plucked but the courage to go snorkeling (i was convinced there were lots of sharks and lucy kept thinking she was going to stand on a sting ray), we were quite dissapointed as we didnt even see any fish, so in the end we met some english guys from the hostel and swam out to a platform in the sea which we could dive off, we were both very proud of ourselves as it took about 30 mins to reach it. Later on in the day when we were sunbathing a group of about 20 chinese lads came on to the beach and stripped off to their tiny little speedos, they were obviously part of a rugby team as they were quite hench and god they loved themselves. They then stood in a long line while people started to take photos of them while they were posing, kissing there biceps and tensing their arse cheeks, it was absolutely hilarious and we were both gutted that we didnt take our camera to the beach that day. Lucy said she’d give me 100 yaun to run up to them and slap all of their arses, it was extremely tempiting but i didnt really fancied get arrested or anything.
We have both really enjoyed our stay here even though the weather hasnt been that great, apart from the first 2 days its been really cloudy, but we have been determined to get a tan so have still been to the beach every day and both made a mistake in thinking you didnt need sunlotion if it was cloudy. Also we are convinced one of the chinese girls in our room in a prostitute, she sleeps all day and then gets up about 1 in the morning, gets in about 5 and then has a bloody shower while we are trying to sleep!
The other night a group of us decided to go and get a chinese massge as it only cost us 2 pounds for a whole hour, i’d have to say that apart from getting mugged it was the most unpleasent thing that we i have done since we’ve been away. I have never been in so much pain in my life, at one point the girl actually climbed on my back and was kneeling up and down on me and clicking bones which i didnt even know i had, and abviously we cant speack chinese so i couldnt tell here to ease off a bit. Altough afterwards we did feel quite good we both agreed that it wasnt really worth the pain inflicted on us at the time.
We took 8 day trip going to the heart of Miao territory where you have witnessed the famous Miao courtship festival, took in quaint towns along the Wuyang River, visited Black Dragon Cave and went home loaded down with handicrafts.
A tortuous mountain road climbed high into the mountains north of Tajiang, taking me past picturesque Miao villages and precipitous valleys. Nearing the village of Shidong, I followed the crowd to a riverbank gathering place for the Sisters’ Meal Festival.
The Miao “Sisters Festival” is also called “Sisters Meal Festival”, which is the traditional festival for Miao people living in Taijiang County, Shibing County and other counties located alongside Qingshui River in Guizhou. It is known as the “Oldest Oriental Valentine’s Day”, sisters, young boys and girls get together to select their ideal lovers on that day.
Women had begun several circle dances as more people arrived, some by boat, some by bus, some by tractor trucks, and some on foot. Many carried large bundles, which turned out to contain the elaborate costumes and silver ornaments for the pretty young girls. Older women dressed the young in silver-studded aprons, then piled on necklace after silver necklace, and finally added multi-layered horned headdresses. Silver beads, animal figures, and other little decorations hung and jingled and jangled from the headdresses. Costume complete, the young girls joined the circle dances to be admired by the young men and everyone else. Photo bugs swarmed around the silvery spectacle.
After three hours of taking it all in, I made my way through the crowds back to the road and resumed my way north. The road, gravel from Tajiang to Shidong, was now paved, and a new bridge took me across the Qingshui River. The scenery changed to one of towering pinnacles and ridges as I again headed high into the mountains, finally reaching my destination of Zhenyuan as darkness fell.
The next day I explored this old Han town, established 2,000 years ago on the Wuyang He (River) to guard a trade route. The stone Zhusheng Bridge, topped with the graceful Kuixing Pavilion, leads to Black Dragon Cave. This multi-purpose temple complex contains halls and shrines dedicated to Buddha, Confucious, Taoist gods, and an assortment of past notables. The assemblage of ancient buildings runs up the cliffside and into several caves. Nearly all of the old statues had been lost to the ravages of Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” and many halls stand empty. A new image of the Buddha–said to be made of jade–comes from Burma, and a towering figure of Guanyin–the Chinese Buddhist deity of compassion and mercy–stands behind in Zhong Yuan Cave. I started with the Hall of the Great Buddha, then ended up at the Jade Emperor Pavilion, both impressively large structures. In the afternoon I recrossed the stone bridge and took a trail high up the cliffs to stone fortifications, looking like a small-scale Great Wall of China. I walked along the wall, then followed another trail down, stopping at a decrepit temple dedicated to four generals of long ago.
