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The waterfall is not strange for everyone, such as the beautiful and spectacular Huangguoshu Waterfall affordable China travel packages, comely and meaningful Huangshan Waterfall, passionate Hukou Waterfall, etc... China's waterfalls feature in grand scale, numerous category and rich hydrological resources.

In the numerous motherland waterfall group, the Detian Waterfall, which is located in the southwest Guangxi, has won the favor of people for its grand, magnificent and changeable appearance, clear and ever-flowing water. Detian Waterfall is full of twists and tus, it has enjoyed the reputation of "the first largest in Asia, the second largest in the world".

The best time to travel top 10 China tours to the Detian Waterfall is moing and toward evening. Standing on the hills and overlooking, you can have a panoramic view of the panorama of Detian Waterfall.

When the moing sunlight cut through the aery water mist, you will feel as if in a wispy wonderland. Toward the evening, when the setting sun slants on the waterfall; the golden water pours from the green trees and cliffs, hitting layers of rocks, then the water splashes in all directions, glittering and colorful... This is really a romantic world.

The beauty of the Detian Waterfall is too numerous to mention one by one. Let us put aside all the noisy and annoying, just get into the arms of the nature!

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Shanxi is known as the museum of Chinese ancient buildings. Its Jin-Merchant buildings reflects the essence of Chinese traditional local-style dwelling houses. The Pingyao Ancient City affordable China travel packages, built in the Weste Zhou Dynasty, has 2700 years of history. The existing city has more than 3000 buildings, which are stores, dwelling houses, exquisite and chic small courtyard, etc...

Shanxi Pingyao Ancient City is one of the China's existing four best-preserved ancient cities. Its rich merchant culture breath, deep curtilage, city building and sunset, gongs and drums, simple folkway and savory food make people leisurely and comfortable.

Everything during the daytime in this ancient city is wonderful. Though this ancient city is quite big, you can use most of the day to walk through the whole city. I chose to stay here for a few days to enjoy deeper travel experience. The four main roads make the large and small sight spots very clear. Along the road, there are numerous stores selling tasty Pingyao beef or hand glassing lacquer specialty top 10 China tours.

The night Pingyao Ancient City has its unique flavor. With the red lantes, this ancient city seems to be very extremely lively. Walking in the street, I strolled in my favorite characteristic shops and ate my favorite flavor snacks. Due to the ancient city, the night, the moonlight and neon lamp, I preferred to let my steps to slow down, to have an intimate contact with the true world. The night old street withdrew its noise and excitement of the daytime, but to become quiet and peaceful. Walking on this old street quietly, sometimes I stopped to enjoy the beautiful moonlight, just immerse in the thick night in this ancient city popular China travel package.

Standing on the north tower to look around, the whole city is quiet and peaceful. Looking far away, the ancient city wall is like a strong and vigorous dragon, full of all kinds of vigour. The open field of vision will make you suddenly become extensive.

The whole ancient city gives a piece of yellow grey tone. Wwe can't see the blue sky of Jiangnan, but we also feel the tone is very gentle. All kinds of folk houses form the most of Pingyao Ancient City China tour guide.

At the vast territory of China, there are numerous places to see canola flower. In last spring, we went to Luoping affordable China tours ten thousand mu canola flower fields, which are reputed as the canola flower "originator".

No one know since when, people begin to be so fascinated to the the most common canola flower. From January to March, the period of the recovery of all things, we sniffed canola flower’s unique local flavor, walking into the countryside to capture the bright "yellow" feast.

or the Luoping canola flower, I've known for several years, but have no chance to see. Until last year, I went here, but it is already after flowering, and cauliflower is shedding seed. However, the scenery of the green and yellow fields is still very beautiful and shocking to me.

Walking into the canola flower fields, you will smell the flavor of happiness.

Three recommended spots to see Luoping canola flower:
1. Jinji Peaks:
Jinji Peaks is the visiting card of Luoping canola flowers, and also the propaganda card of Luoping tourism in China. Standing on Jinji Peaks, overlooking the numerous canola flower fields, which is very grand and amazing. It is the most grand scene of canola flower fields. Jinji Peaks is about 12 km away from Luoping downtown, which can be reached by regular buses.

2. Screw Fields
Snail fields is a large scale terraces located 10 km away from northwest of Luoping County. The terraces here are in circle, which looking like the lira of screw.

3. Duoyi River Scenic Area
From Luoping to Duoyi River Scenic Area top 10 China tours, there are lots of canola flower fields, scattering between houses and hills. Driving along the road, each bend is total different scenery.

Transportation Tips:
There are regular buses to each scenery spots. However, it is recommended to self-driving, as during our trip, we can stop at everywhere with beautiful sceneries.

Best time:
The best time to see the canola flowers is in spring, before the late March.

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In the early summer of last year, my close friend Carol and I took a hiking trip to the Great Wall in Beijing China vacation deals. It is a long exhausted one but absolutely an amazing, well, how to say, once-in-a-life-time experience.

Our original plan was took one day to Badaling Great Wall, the most famous and well-facility one, but actually, we took 7 days in total for this jouey, climbing 4 sections of the Great Wall in Beijing and Tianjin, that is, Beijing Juyongguan Pass/Great Wall-Badaling Great Wall-Tianjin Huangyaguan Pass/Great Wall-Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall-Mutianyu Great Wall. This travel strategy we just download from the inteet written by an experienced travel fan.

We flew to Beijing on April 8 and landed on Beijing about 2hours later. Then we took a taxi to our in hostel Beijing - City Central Youth Hotel, which near the Tian’anmen Square and the famous commercial street – Wangfujing Street.

Get ready for our Great Wall Hiking!

April 9, a tour to Juyongguan Pass and Badaling Great Wall. We got up very early and took about 1.5 hours driving by coach to Juyongguan Pass, which was built in early Ming Dynasty (1368), stretched about 4000 m. Some of the framework was rebuilt in early 1990’s, but still remained its imperial manner thoroughly.

Before reaching the pass, we just can imagine how grand the building would be according to the descriptions on the books. On arrival, we knew that words were but wind. A high strategic pass (6 m or so) showed in front of us. As the time went by, some green unknown plant has rooted on the wall. We entered the gate hole, felt like we started a time travel top China tours.

As the whole construction of the great wall of this section was built along Jundushan Mountain, which noted for its abrupt descent and deep valley, we have to climb up and down, up and down. For one section, you could almost see the heel of the tourist before you – too steep.

As we have to tour Badaling in the afteoon, we only spent about 2 hours for climbing. After a simple lunch in a fastfood shop nearby, we back to our jouey.

Badaling was the first section opened to public, well-preserved and has convenient tourism facilities. So we decided to go further this time. However, as met the weekend, that were too many people!

At the beginning, we tried hard to break our way through the crow. One hour later, we climbed faster, chatted and enjoyed the landscape changing. But another hour later, we were in no mood for doing anything else but climbing, walking…We took two short break to charge snack bars during that long hiking (Carol said we spent 3.5hours). My leg hurts after we got back to our hostel. Oh my! I have to climb the Huangyaguan Pass the next day! Carol felt alright. “Don’t look at me with your big green eyes,” she said.

April 10, we took express train to Tianjin popular China travel package, which only took our 30 minutes. Firstly, we checked in our hostel in downtown, then took bus to the bus station in Ji County, transferred to a small coach to reach Huangyaguan area. It was already lunch time when we got there. After that, we started our hiking along the Huangyaguan Pass (Great Wall).

At first, we kept our normal speed and took some photos when we sew something interesting. During the way, we could see a small village just locates on the foot of the mountain.

One hour later, we started to climb over a section of destroyed wall. Only half of the wall body been kept, and it seemed the wall bricks had been used up when reached this section that could only use big rocks to piled up.

We took nearly 1 hour for it till we reached Tian Ti – a very very high and steep stone way. My leg was painful and shook, so we have to give up and back.

That night, Carol’s leg was in pain. Both of us agreed that to take a rest for one day. So, on April 11, we spent a whole moing in the hostel then took express train back to Beijing.

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April 12, continue our Great Wall hiking trip. Today we climbed Jinshanling Great Wall, with a total length of 10.5 km. As our legs not in good condition, we decided to climb only half of the distance then back, which took us nearly 3.5hours as we could not walk fast as usual.

It is said that the section between Jinshanling and Simatai was the best preserved one in Beijing, for its original look, thus we have many accompanies during the way, most of them are foreign friends. However, the Simatai Great Wall was just during the restoration.

April 13, hiking to the Mutianyu Great Wall. Our final strike for this jouey! We encouraged each other and decided, after this climbing, should enjoy a really good dinner for celebration!

To be honest, I had no idea what to expect as I have never traveled to China before, and was quite surprised and pleased with what it has to offer.

I’ll breakdown my feedback into where we visited.

Huangshan Mountain (Yellow Mountain)--Absolutely stunning scenery, even with the cloudy day we had, I could still see what a magical place it is. I could have spent another day just wandering around there on my own. I had a wonderful time, and would highly recommend a visit to the Yellow Mountain China tour deals for clients. The hotel was quite nice, and the Ancient Street in Tunxi was fun with lots of things to buy. I preferred this market to yew gardens in Shanghai.

Xidi--the ancient village of Xidi China best tours was also very interesting, from the waterways in the street to the ancient house and carvings inside, this is another place I could have happily spent an afteoon wandering on my own, the culture was there and I found the people quite friendly. It was nice to visit some of these smaller places so I can recommend them to clients; it’s always nice to know first-hand what one is talking about .

Thanks again for the opportunity to visit your lovely country; I look forward to coming back and exploring more.

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Outside of Tongling,in the southeaste part of Chizhou city, Anhui province China travel deals, lies Jiuhua Mountain. Its name literally means "Nine Brilliant Mountains," but the 100 square kilometer area actually consists of 99 peaks, with the tallest one reaching 1,341 meters. It's a lush, green mountainous area where Buddhist and Taoist monks live among the low hanging clouds and bamboo trees harmoniously with nature. Most of the Buddhist temples found here are of Mahayana Buddhism origins, with the more remote peaks belonging to the Taoist Buddhist school of thought.

In wanting to understand China more, I realized that it is necessary to explore the country's ancient past, rather than only on its recent history. How one goes about that and where one decides to start depends mostly on circumstance and luck. Thankfully there's no set way or prescribed path. It's more about being in the right place at the right time, where you accidentally stumble upon something you never knew existed. So after spending five days in Tongling, myself and other reporters from CRI were treated to an excursion through the holy area of Jiuhua Mountain, which was nice to way to end several days celebrating the 11th Annual Bronze Exhibition top 10 China tour packages.

The bus up the mountain was a careful ride which took us on a winding and twisting jouey through one of China's most sacred mountain ranges. As for its religious past, Jiuhua Mountain is known as the home to Dizang Pusa, the God of the Underworld.

Without question, Jiuhua Mountain's 99 peaks make it one of China's most amazing scenic destinations—it could easily take days to cover this vast expanse. It's a vibrant place alive with the Buddhist and Taoist monks living there among ancient temples. You'll only find vegetarian restaurants here, along with small shops selling incense, local woodwork carvings, and other souvenirs. The area also offers affordable hotels for those who want to spend more time within this tranquil sanctuary. And please be respectful, cameras are not allowed inside any of the ancient temples, nor are visitors allowed to take photos even from the outside.

Legend has it that Jiuhua Mountain became famous in the year 747 A.D., when the Chinese poet Li Bai met Kim Kiao Kak, a Korean prince who died in the mountains after seventy-five years of praying to Dizang Pusa. Li Bai's fate was quite different. He died in the nearby Yangtze River while trying to embrace the reflection of the moon, but luckily not before writing some of the finest poetry in literary history.

Another unique feature of the area is its abundance of bamboo trees. The Minyuan Garden is a place where one can absorb this natural treasure
popular China tour package, as this area consists of 160 hectares of thick green bamboo trees. Other places not to miss are the Longxi (Dragon) Stream, Ancient Phoenix Pine (over 1,000 years old), Huayan Cave, Telpher Stop, Huiju Temple, and the Green Cloud Nunnery.

After a vegetarian lunch consisting of noodles, soup, rice, boiled snails and other dishes, we descended the rainy mountain all feeling, for one reason or another, more peaceful. The area has a meditative quality to it you won't find among many mountain ranges.

One of my favorite things about living in China is discovering the surprises it has to offer. Enjoying the scenery and peacefulness of Jiuhua Mountain is something everyone should take in at least once, regardless of where you live or where you're from. For those already in China, you have no excuse; go as soon as you can.

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As an ancient custom, Nuo basically means greeting the god to exorcize the ghost of pestilence. Nuo dance refers to the dance performed at grand Nuo ceremonies. With a long history, it can be dated back to the record of "folk Nuo" in The Analects of Confucius. Nuo dance has been recognized as the living fossil in the dance history. Nuo dance of Wanzai County China travel deals originated in the Yuan Dynasty and prospered in the early Ming Dynasty. It is mainly popular in Tanbu and Zhutan Towns where the Hakkas live. Until now, the original local flavor still remains in Nuo dance.

Nuo dance of Wanzai is also called Dancing Elves and Moving the Table (as the god in Nuo dance refers to that on the table). In addition to exorcizing and catching the ghost, the performance is also intended to pray for prosperity, security, longevity, harvests, elimination of pestilence and a growing population. There are 24 performers, and all of them wear masks and ancient costumes. All of the masks are made of exquisitely-engraved camphor wood. Besides, all have to be consecrated by shamans of Huashan Denomination top China tours, known as "open light." "Open light" means that the god of Nuo recruits generals and soldiers from the afterworld so that he will have the power to exorcize the evil.

Nuo dance of Wanzai has been passed down all the way until today. It has been very popular for generations. Before the performance starts, the god of Nuo has to be invited from his temple, which is known as "out of the table." On every New Year's Eve, the front door of the temple will be wide open. Candles will be bued, firecrackers set off, and drums loudly beaten. The leader of the ceremony will carry the Buddha statue out of the shrine, wash the face with clean water and dress it with a new hat. Afterwards, the Buddha statue will be placed in an armchair and then put it back on the incense table in front of the shrine. One day later, namely, on the 2nd day of the 1st lunar month, the dancing team will carry the Nuo god to every village and the neighboring counties. Musical instruments will be played along the road.

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Commonly called "the ghost opera" or "the ghost dance", the exorcizing dance is a kind of dance originated from the ancient exorcizing culture affordable China tours. It is honored as "the living fossil of Chinese dance". The exorcizing dance derived from the totem worship of the clan society in ancient times. Originally, it was a dance believed capable of driving away ghosts performed at sacrificial exorcizing rituals. Later, the dance gradually evolved into a festive sacrificial performance normally staged between the first and 16th day of the first month on the lunar calendar. Today, the exorcizing dance is still performed in rural areas in Jinagxi, Guizhou and Yunnan etc.

The exorcizing dance in different areas has different performing styles. It can be divided into elegant and dynamic dancing schools. "The elegant exorcizing dance" features a grand scene and graceful dancing postures; "the dynamic exorcizing dance" is wonderful and magnificent, characterized by vigorous and forcible movements. While performing top 10 China tours, the exorcizing dancers usually wear masks bearing the images of mythological characters. Accompaniment instruments include drums, gongs and other percussion instruments. The dancers wear masks, donning animal skins and wielding dagger-axes and shields. They dance around and utter the sound of "nuo-nuo", symbolizing the driving away of evil ghosts and praying for peace.

The exorcizing dance had great impact on various dances of the ethnic minorities, such as the Tibetan Qiangmu Drama and the Shigong (Folk Master) Ritual Dance of the Zhuang ethnic group. These two arts absorbed some cultural elements and performing skills of the exorcizing dance. Meanwhile, the exorcizing dance also had influence on local operas, such as the "Nuoshen Tune" of Huangmei Opera. The tune is exactly originated from the exorcizing dance. The exorcizing opera is the theatrical art form derived from the dance. The exorcizing opera is characterized by wooden mask-wearing performers, who dance and sing in the roles of ghosts and spirits, presenting the stories of the immortals' life popular China tour package.

The exorcizing dance is a blend of multiple religious, folk cultures and arts. In 2006, it was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. The age-old art still keeps developing.

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Zhangfei Temple, firstly built in the Three Kingdom Period (220 - 280), has a history of over 1,700 years. It was originally located at the foot of Fengfei Mountain, and was later moved to a new site in Yunyang County. The new Zhangfei Temple is located 32 km (19.9 miles) west of the original one, facing Yunyang County across the Yangtze River Yangtze River tour.

The temple was built to commemorate a famous general of the Shu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms Period, Zhang Fei. It is recorded that in the year 221, Zhang Fei was going out to do battle with the troops of the Wu Kingdom. Zhang Fei, although an excellent general, had a bad habit of always whipping his soldiers. The night before he the battle, he again whipped his soldiers. Two of them rebelled against this treatment and killed him during that night. Zhang Fei was only 55 when he died. The two soldiers cut off Zhang Fei's head and planned to defect to the Wu Kingdom. They ran off to Yunyang with Zhang Fei's head, but soon leat that the Wu and Shu Kingdoms had made peace, and threw Zhang Fei's head into the Yangtze River. A fisherman found Zhang Fei's head and buried it at the foot of Fengfei Mountain affordable China tours. Local people later built a temple to commemorate the valiant general.

The new Zhangfei Temple lies against mountains and faces the Yangtze River. There are many flags bearing the Chinese character for Zhang (the suame of Zhang Fei) outside the temple. A main hall, wing halls, Taking Oath Building, Zhufeng Pavilion, and Cuckoo Pavilion are the major temple components. The buildings have white walls and overhanging roofs built of grey tiles, and most of them have been renovated many times in ancient dynasties since the temple was built. Varies construction and art styles are harmonized in the temple buildings top 10 China tour packages.

In addition to the buildings, there are many precious Chinese calligraphy works to be seen. Over 800 distinct styles of painting and calligraphy works, inscribed boards, stone tablets, and couplets from the Three Kingdoms Period to the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) can be found there. Some are works of famous artists in ancient China, such as Yan Zhenqing, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Yue Fei, and Zheng Banqiao. Visitors can also lea more about Zhang Fei and the culture of Three Kingdoms Period from the lively statues in the temple.

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Colorful cap is part of the Uygur ethnic minority's habiliment Silk Road tours, and also one of the symbols of the minority. As early as the Tang Dynasty (618-907), most males of the Weste Regions wore a pointed-topped felt hat with a tuup edge, quite similar to the present-day "Sipianwa". By the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), owing to the influence of Arabian and Central Asian culture, men of the Uygur ethnic minority had begun to shave their heads and wear small embroidered caps. In the beginning period of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the colorful cap of the minority developed further in material and design. Leather was used in winter and damask silk in summer, with fowl feather inserted at the front. All caps for female were decorated with purl embroidery.

Through the constant innovation by the Uygur people of all places, the colorful cap has become increasingly delicate in workmanship and progressively various in styles. But the chief types are "Qiyiman" and "Badanmu", generally called "Gaba" (four-sided tiny colorful cap affordable China tours).

"Qinyiman" cap is flowery in color, and its needle work is fine and smooth. It is embroidered with chromatic threads made of silver and gold, and set with some small plastic beads of various colors. Boys and girls wearing them dance and sing under the shady grape trellis.

"Badanmu" was derived from Badanxing (prunus amygdalus top 10 China tours), which is a tree originating from Persia, characterized by its ability to blossom and bear fruit even in an arid desert. According to the character of prunus amygdalus and its meniscoid core, the highly imaginative Uygur use white silk thread, and the technique of combination of curve, straight, dots and lines, to embroider a patte of apricots crowded around by ripples and beads, symbolizing that trickling springs are nourishing fruitful trees. Such a simple and elegant "Badanmu" colorful cap is especially favored by middle-aged and old people.

There are many ways to embroider the colorful cap: silk thread plane embroidering, cross-shaped embroidering, silk thread knot embroidering, bead string embroidering, lattice embroidering, gold and silver embroidering, crochet embroidering, enlaced cloth with soft nap embroidering and integrated embroidering combined with brede, enlacing, cluster and entwining. Uygur women first embroider chromatic pattes on the four pieces of cap cover, then sew them together, fixing the lining on it and putting it on the wooden mold, and finally add the black velveteen margin. So, the dainty little colorful cap has come out.

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