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Xian City Wall Xian City Wall/西安城墙 is an ancient capital of China, also represent one of the oldest, largest and best preserved Chinese city walls. Xian City Wall is the most complete city wall that has survived in China, also being one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world. It is located …
Daming Palace in National Heritage Park This place is big, a very huge park with nothing much except some miniature of the palace built at one corner of the park. There are some ruins or base of the ancient palace left in this huge area. The palace was destroyed, and currently there is only a section …
Lunch at Yaodong Yaodong/窯洞 is a house cave, found in Shaanxi area. There are still quite a big population, 40 million living in yaodong these days. It is very cooling in the summer when I had my lunch there and I heard it need very little heating in winter. I have always wanted to find …
Continue reading “China Xi’an 2 : Find out what is the real meaning of “扬眉吐气” in Shaanxi.”
Ancient Capital of China – Xian : A day in Famen Temple I visit China frequently and every few years I would re-visit different part of China. I started to explore from the southern part of China such as Xiamen, Guangzhuo, ChaoZhou, Yunnan and Guangxi. This time I was really excited because Xian, is really …
Bicycle Kingdom I discovered there are 3 major rental bikes in Shanghai city, differentiate by their colors, Orange, Yellow and Blue. Ofo bike refer to the yellow color rental Bike. The rental is cheaper than Mobike, 0.5 RMB for half an hour whereas Mobike is RMB 1. China is once known to be bicycle kingdom …
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Hutong/胡同 in Shanghai I am more of a country person so Hutong always interest me and I wanted to find out more in the Shanghai Hutong. I was hoping to capture scene of Shanghai women wearing the qipao walking in the hutong of old Shanghai. Hutong are narrow streets or alleys with old building from …
Continue reading “Part 2 -Exploring the ancient and modern side of Shangai in a day”
Most populous city in the world – Shanghai I have been to China more than 10 times but Shanghai was my first trip! Hearing the word most populous made me scare. I am more of a country person. It only took us 4.5 hours to reach Shanghai. The flight served a mini ice-cream for dessert. …
Continue reading “Part 1- How to get around in Shanghai Free and Easy”