China Zhejiang Travel and Tour

Zhejiang Province is situated on China’s south eastern coast, on the southern part of the Yangtze River Delta. Its northeast is adjacent to Shanghai, the largest city of China. The capital city is Hangzhou. It covers a total land area of 101,800 square kilometres. The province’s total coastline stretches 6,486 kilometres, ranking the first in China. Zhejiang also has the most islands in China. Among the province’s numerous islands, 3,061 have a land area of 500 square meters or larger.

Zhejiang Province has a sub-tropical monsoon climate, with the clear division of four seasons and abundant sunshine. The average annual temperature is 15 deg C – 18 deg C and the average annual precipitation is 1,200-1,800 mm. Its rainy season is from May to June; its coldest and hottest days are seen in January and July respectively.

Zhejiang province is famous for its cultural relics and tourists. It has more than 7 state-level scenic areas. Tourists resources are very rich, including the West Lake, Mount Gu, Su Di, Yingzhou, Yue Tomb, Yu quan, Mount Feilai, Lingyin Temple, Liuhe Pagoda, etc. All these spots are famous at domestic and overseas. Except for all above, there are Mount Putuo in Haitai, the southeast first Mount Yandang, Qiandao Lake, Mount Tiantai, River Nanxi, Island Chengsi. Others are cool world MountMogan, flourished forest Mount Tianri, the surging Qiantang tides, Island Penglai river in Wenzhou, Tiantong temple in Ningbo, BaoguoTemple, Tianyi ge , Luxun former residence, etc. The Surging Qiantang Tides, a unique natural view, attracts numerous visitors from both home and abroad each year.

Great wall of china wooing tourists

Now if you have traveled to China for a vacation holiday or on a business trip, people will inevitably ask you whether you have visited The Great Wall of China? Why is this tourist attraction in China so attractive? It is because if you have not gone sightseeing at the Great Wall of China, then your China vacation is missing out a great deal. Here is why.

The Great Wall of China is an integral feature of the geography of Northern China and has captured the imaginations of people throughout its long and distinguished history or some people may wish to think of as its notorious history. The Chinese call this magnificent wall Wan Li Chang Cheng when literally translate means Wall of Ten Thousand Li. A Li is a Chinese measurement of distance such as a mile or kilometer.

The Great Wall of China saw its first piecemeal construction from the fifth century BC down to the 16th century AD as a strategic deterrence against raids, plunders and even invasions from northern nomadic tribes of which the Chinese at that time regarded as hostile barbarians.

When the Chinese were unified under Emperor Qin Shi Huang or Shi Huangdi in 221 BC, the first emperor of China started the construction of the Great Wall to protect China’s northern border towns and villages against the Huns, Xiong Nu tribesman. The words Xiong Nu when directly translated from Chinese literally means Fierce Fury. You can imagine how the Chinese was so fearful of this tribe by labeling it with such a name.

The Xiong Nus were finally driven to the far flung corners of the Gobi desert after 3 Chinese military search and destroy expeditions. Even then, the walls failed to curb the invasion of China by the Mongols (Yuan Dynasty) and the Manchurians (Ching Dynasty).

Historical records showed that as many as 300,000 men working for ten years on the first phase of the wall’s construction. Stories of hardship and thousands of tragic death suffered by the conscripted laborers are passed down to show that Shi Huangdi was a hated tyrant.

Constructed mostly with bricks and masonry, the wall was built by Chinese rulers of 10 dynasties and the length of the wall, meandering through mountains and valleys totaled an incredible 25,000 km or almost 16,000 miles long.

Since the 1950s, five parts of the wall have been restored and like most tourists, I visited the wall from the Badaling section one winter afternoon in Nankou Pass after a visit to the Ming Tombs. I was awestruck with the wall structure as well as the fantastically stunning winter scenery and landscape.

The second most popular access to the Great Wall is through Mutianyu, northeast of Beijing in Huairou County. The advantage of visiting the Great Wall of China from this point is that it is less crowded than the Badaling access

China Beijing Travel and Tour

The political and cultural center of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, which is also called simply as the Jing, which means the Capital, can also be used to refer to the country’s leadership.

The region around Beijing has historical roots dating as far back as 500,000 years. The city is one of the seven ancient capital cities of China and is located on the northwest edge of the North China Plain, adjoining Tianjin City to its east and Hebei Province to its north, west and south. Beijing has 16 districts and two counties under its jurisdiction, covering an area of 16,800 square kilometers. In the Warring States period (403 – 221 BC), the state of Yan established its capital here, as such, Beijing is also commonly called Yanjing to this day.

The modern People’s Republic of China as we know of today is founded in 1949. The victorious communist government shifted the capital from Nanjing to the present day Beijing, re-establishing the city’s status as the national capital, a role it has played for over 700 years. In the meantime, Beijing became the center for politics, culture, and international exchange. It is one of the cities, which has the most colleges and the most advanced educational level. It has the world-famous universities, such as Peking University and Tsinghua University. In this famed historical and cultural city, cultural heritage sites and scenic spots are to be found everywhere. Ancient palace groups, temples, parks, ancient pagodas with rock carvings, imperial gardens and tombs, former residences of historic personages throng the city side by side with modern buildings of museums and memorial halls.

In terms of cultural heritage sites, Beijing has 7,309 of them. Of these, The Forbidden City, the Great Wall and the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian are on the list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In addition, Beijing has over 200 scenic spots open to visitors, including the Beihai Park, the Summer Palace, the Ming Tombs, the Temple of Heaven, the Tanzhe Temple, Fragrant Hills, the Ruins of the Yuan Ming Yuan, the Eight Great Sites, etc.

It is important to know when you are coming to Beijing as the city has distinctive four seasons which provide different experiences: short spring and autumn as well as longer winter and summer. The average annual temperature is 13 deg C (averaging 25 – 20 deg C in July, the hottest month, and 3.7 deg C in January, the coldest month). The average annual rainfall is 508 millimetres and the frost-free period is 180-200 days.