Located in southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region around the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo River), Nyingchi is the gateway to Tibet from Yunnan and Sichuan. It neighbors Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province within the east and is bordered by Lhasa within the west. Within the south, it shares a boundary with India and Burma. The regional government is seated in Bayi Town, more than 400 kilometers east of Lhasa.

  Like all other parts in Tibet, Nyingchi can also be quite rich in all-natural marvels. These attractions are not just good for sightseeing, but they prove to become a dream location for adventure lovers and daredevils. The Yaluzhangbu Grand Canyon, located within the south eastern side of Nyingchi city is situated exactly where Himalyas, Tanggula, and Henduan Mountain meet. The canyon that's about 500 km lengthy has an typical depth of 5000 m. Apart from the exceptional ecological system, you'll see a large number of wildlife as well, Bangladeshi tigers, the long leaf tail monkey and many other people. There are no staying locations nearby so it's advised that you simply carry all your camping gear together with you and take essential precautions because the area is exposed to floods and landslides. Do not go their without a guide who knows the region well.Sacred Sejila Mountain is an essential pilgrimage center situated within the eastern side of Nyingchi City and located at an altitude of 4700 m above sea level. The pilgrims come here and stroll about the peak and provide their prayers. Just stand at any point and admire the pure elegance from the mountain that's covered with flowers of all color. The sight is absolutely spellbinding and requires you into a globe by no means experienced.The Paga Temple features a lengthy history and dates back to the era of 5th Dalai Lama. You will find the biggest collection of Buddha statues nearly thousands in quantity. Also seek blessing of much more than 100 Lamas residing inside the temple premises. 1 who visits this temple by no means leaves with out going to the Holy Paga Mountain and the mysterious cave half way up the mountain. Stated to possess super natural powers, the cave also features a hot geyser that shoots out every four hours. Carefully examine the walls of the cave that have a great deal of inscriptions that still remains hidden from the eyes from the globe.Ranwu Lake will be the greatest lake in south east of Tibet and is around 90 km away from Nyingchi County. The lake is situated at an altitude of 3800 meters and covers an region of about 22 sq. km. The lake is surrounded by various mountain ranges from all side, the Gangrigabu snow mountain in the southwest, the Azhagongla Glacier in the south and Bosula Peak in northeast. The tip of tehse ranges is covered with snow all the year round.

  Mount Lushan, located by the Poyang Lake, 36 kilometers south of  Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, covers an area of 350 square kilometers. The Hanyang Peak, the highest, rises 1,474 meters above sea level. At Lushan, towering peaks and dangerously steep cliffs on all sides surround a relatively gentle center. The landscape here is spectacular with some 100 peaks being veiled in mist for some 191 days annually on average. It is particular cool in summer and is therefore a world-renowned summer resort.

  Mount Lushan has an important place in Chinese history and culture. It is an outstanding representative of Chinese landscape culture, as well as a remarkable model of Chinese academy-based education, and a focal point for the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, once acting as the cultural center of southern China. The significant cultural developments and political events occurring over the course of Lushan’s history have influenced the course of Chinese history.
  Thirteen forest artists from all over the world came to Lushan in 2010 for 4 weeks and left 13 pieces of internationally famous forest art on the Poetic Forest Art Trail placed in sequence along Lushan's Yellow Dragon Trail. The residential artist activity continued again in 2011 when ten artists from Germany, America, Japan，Korea etc. came to Lushan and created multiple new 2011 art   over 2 months.  In 2012 a limited number of internships will be offered to Lushan Institute students to work with the artists on their latest pieces.

  Ming Tombs is the graves of Ming emperors. It is located in Tianshou Mountain Changping District northwest Beijing. The graves cover more than 120 square kilometers and are almost 50 kilometers away from Beijing. The Ming Tombs are surrounded by mountains in east, west and north sides in a basin. In front of the graves, there is a twisting river. The Ming Tombs were built along the steep mountains and form grand scale. From the first Changling to the last Siling, there are totally thirteen emperors’ tombs here during the more than 230 years.

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  From the Yongle Emperor onwards, 13 Ming Dynasty Emperors were buried in this area. The Xiaoling Tomb of the first Ming Emperor, Hongwu, is located near his capital Nanjing; the second emperor, Jianwen was overthrown by Yongle and disappeared, without a known tomb. The "temporary" Emperor Jingtai was also not buried here, as the Emperor Tianshun had denied him an imperial burial; instead, Jingtai was buried west of Beijing.The last Ming emperor was buried at the location was Chongzhen, who committed suicide by hanging (on 25th of April 1644), was buried in his concubine Consort Tian's tomb, which was later declared as an imperial mausoleum Si Ling by the emperor of the short-lived Shun Dynasty Li   Zicheng, with a much smaller scale compares to the other imperial mausoleums built for Ming Emperors.
  During the Ming dynasty the tombs were off limits to commoners, but in 1644 Li Zicheng's army ransacked and set many of the tombs on fire before advancing and capturing Beijing in April of that year.

  Baotu Spring, or Jet Spring, is known not only as the first of the 72 springs in Jinan but as the “First Spring Under Heaven”. Together with its environs, it has been turned into a park of the same name that is now one of the three major places of interest in Jinan. Baotu Spring is in the southwestern corner of the Old City district. It used to occupy only 4 mu of land (two thirds of an acre), but since liberation the People’s Government has expanded the grounds to over 50 mu, or about 9 acres. All the old buildings and relics here have been restored, the springs and ponds have been thoroughly dredged, and the banks lined with stone. Lawns and rockeries have been built and numerous trees and flower planted.More information about China Tour in chinatourguide.com.

  According to experts' research, Baotu Spring has a history of 3,543 years, dating back to the Shang Dynasty (16th -11th BC). The special geographical structure in Jinan creates the special Baotu Spring, which originates from an Ordovician karst aquifer under the city.
Now the area of the Baotu Spring and some neighboring springs in the same group are protected in a public park, i.e. Baotu Spring Park. The spring poll is surrounded by historical structures, like Luoyuan Hall and Guanlan Pavilion. The largest architectural ensemble here is Wanzhu Garden (10,000 Bamboo Garden).

  Towering high above Pudong New Area, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower has been the outstanding landmark of Shanghai since its completion in 1995. The tower is 468 meters high, the highest in Asia and the third highest in the world, next to the 553–meter-high CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, and the 540-meter-high TV Tower in Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia.More information about China Tours in chinatourguide.com

  The tower includes 15 spheres of different sizes at different levels creating an artistic conception of "large and small pearls dropping onto a jade plate". It has become a symbolic piece of architecture and a favorite sight for tourists in Shanghai.
  This 468 meters (1,536 feet) high  tower is the world's third tallest TV and radio tower surpassed in height only by towers in Toronto, Canada and Moscow, Russia. However, even more alluring than its height is the unique architectural design that makes the Oriental Pearl TV Tower one of the most attractive places anywhere. Its base is supported by three seven-meter wide slanting stanchions. Surrounding the eleven steel spheres that are 'strung' vertically through the center of the tower are three nine-meter wide columns. There are three large spheres including the top sphere, known as the space module. Then there are five smaller spheres and three decorative spheres on the tower base. The entire structure rests on rich green grassland and gives the appearance of pearls shining on a jade plate.

  Before the 1840s, the Bund was a muddy narrow lane with tall reeds. It initially became a British settlement. After Shanghai was established as the trading port in 1846, a street was paved there and the riversides were reinforced. Then, rows of commercial buildings were constructed. As the UK Concession, a building boom at the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century led to the Bund becoming a major financial hub of East Asia. It was the centre of the city's politics, economy and culture more than a hundred years ago, consulates of most countries and many banks, businesses and newspaper offices were settled there, and that's why we have these art-like buildings.More information about China Tours in chinatourguide.com.

  In the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the thawing of economic policy in the People's Republic of China, buildings on the Bund were gradually returned to their former uses. Government institutions were moved out in favor of financial institutions, while hotels resumed trading as such.
In the 1990s the Shanghai government attempted to promote an extended concept of the Bund to boost tourism and land values in nearby areas, as well as to reconcile the promotion of 'colonial relics' with Socialist ideology. From 2008, a major reconfiguration of traffic flow along the Bund was carried out. After a 33-month upgrade, the Bund was reopened to visitors on March 28, 2010. The veil on the new Bund was finally lifted.

  The Reed Flute Cave is the largest and the most impressive natural cave in Guilin, China. This cave, marked on the most travel itineraries, got its name from the reeds growing in this region, with which people make pipes and flutes.More information about China Tours in chinatourguide.com.

  The cave is divided into different parts. It served as a war refuge for many people during World War II. Inside the Reed Flute Cave is a spectacular world of different stalactites and rock formations shimmering with amazing colors of artificial lighting. It all creates an impressive effect!
  While walking through the cave, visitors feel like they are being transported to different environments. Some sections seem like a forest of crystal trees, while others seem like underground mountain ranges and even cities. The strange formations can sometimes seem unworldly. Many of the formations have taken on recognizable shapes of mythological creatures, or natural images. There is one formation that even looks like Santa Claus with his sack on his back. Due to the darkness of the cave, it is quite difficult to get a photograph that can express the same feeling as actually being there.

  Elephant Trunk Hill, also known as Elephant Hill, is located at the confluence of the Li River and Peach Blossom River in the south central area of Guilin City. It looks like a huge elephant stretching its trunk and drinking water, hence the name. Elephant Trunk Hill is the symbol of Guilin and its karst landscape. More information about China Tours in chinatourguide.com.

  Shui Yue Cave (Water Moon Cave) is between the trunk and the legs, which is a semi-round cave penetrated by water. The inverted reflection of the cave in water plus the part above forms a full moon. This phenomenon is unique and many laudatory inscriptions were found on the wall inside the cave. Visitors can boat through the cave to the river.
  Another cave regarded as the eyes of the elephant lies in the hillside. It provides tourists an ideal position to enjoy the panoramic view of Guilin. There is a round cave between the body and trunk of the elephant. This cave is named “Moon-over-Water”, because in moon night, the whole looks like a full moon with a full moon reflection in the Li River. On the back of the elephant, there is a pagoda built in Ming Dynasty. Yunfeng Temple lies on the foot of the hill and there is f "The Revolution of the Taiping Heavenly Kindow in Guilin" exhibited in the temple.
 

  Hong Kong filled with many astonishing temples that very much popular among all worldwide holiday travelers . Man Mo Temple in hong kong one of momentous sacred sites can be found in Hong Kong and with reason of its name for Man (the god of literature) and Mo (the god of martial arts).
  Finding a good accommodation in Hong Kong is as easy as pie. Due to a soaring status in the world of tourism, many lavish and budget hotels have been raised in Hong Kong to provide travellers with pleasurable and world-class stay. Some of the luxury hotels of the Hong Kong such as the Peninsula, Harbour Grand Kowloon, Four Seasons Hotel, and JIA Boutique Hotel are ranked among the best hotels on the globe and offer high-class services to make guests feel important and privileged. Moreover, the various small hotels including Silka Seaview Hotel, YWCA -The Anne Black, Hotel MK, USA Hostel and POP Hotel are prominent for budget-travellers and offer decent facilities at reasonable prices.

  The people of Hong Kong include Taishanese, Chiu Chow, Cantonese, Hakka, Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese and Vietnamese. The official languages of this conurbation are Cantonese and English. Chinese and Mandarin is also common throughout the region. The major religions prominent there are Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Christianity. The communities prevalent there include Sikh, Muslim, Bahai, Jewish and Hindu communities. The highly developed education system of the region compels students to board Cheap Flights to Hong Kong. The kindergarten and two-year senior secondary education is non-compulsory whereas six-year primary and three year secondary education is compulsory.

The International Harbin Ice and Snow Festival held in Harbin, in China’s northern Heilongjiang province, is set to open Thursday. The annual three-month-long festival attracts visitors from all over China as well as a number of foreign guests who brave below-zero temperatures to see colorful large ice and snow sculptures, ride horse-drawn carriages and enjoy a number of winter activities set up on the sidelines of the festival.More information about China Tours in chinatourguide.com

The Sun Island Park is the site of the Snow Sculpture Exposition displaying a wonderful snow world. It has the world's largest indoor ice and snow art museum and it opens to the public from November every year.
The festival lasts for one month, and features large ice and snow sculptures, ice lanterns, swimming in the icy Songhua River and more. The northern hemisphere is a hospitable place for ice festivals these days, so in that spirit, here is a collection of recent photographs of all things frozen, and some of the ways we live and play with ice.