Category: China
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Summer Palace and shopping in Beijing
We didn’t plan for many sightseeing today because our legs were already tired adn sore from all the walking in the mountains. We only wanted to see the Summer Palace dan did some shopping before we flew home the next day. We chose to just go everywhere with Taxi today as we wanted to be […]
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Tianmen Mountain in one day
Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie city, in central China’s Hunan Province, has been called “one of the most beautiful mountains in the world” by many travelers who have been there. The stunning views including ‘Heaven’s Door’ and the 99 Bends, vertical cliffs, the thrilling cliff-hanging walkway and glass skywalk, and the world’s longest cable car ride, make […]
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Thrilling Glass Bridge in Grand Canyon Zhangjiajie
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is in the same area with Zhangjiajie National Forest Park which we went yesterday, around 40 minutes by car from our Hotel. Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is a recently-developed natural wonderland that is famous for beautiful natural landscape and cultural sites. It incorporates green mountains, mild streams, intrigued caves, steep cliffs, and thick forest. There […]
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How to spend one day in Zhangjiajie National Park
Zhangjiajie was recognized as China’s first national forest park in 1984 with an area of 4,810 ha. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is part of a much larger 397.5 km2 Wulingyuan Scenic Area. In 1992, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was then approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as Zhangjiajie Sandstone Peak […]
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How to visit Great Wall Mutianyu
Great Wall of China, is one of the largest building-construction projects ever undertaken. The Great Wall actually consists of numerous walls—many of them parallel to each other—built over some two millennia across northern China and southern Mongolia. The most extensive and best-preserved version of the wall dates from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and runs for some 5,500 miles (8,850 km) […]
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CHINA SUMMER GIRLS TRIP ITINERARY
In the beginning of 2018, someone in my yoga class told me how she and her family just came back from holiday in Zhangjiajie. I have never heard of Zhangjiajie and she told me it was a national park in China which inspired Avatar Movie. She also told me how she went to Tianmen mountain […]