TRAVEL TO CHINA
To travel to China is to immerse oneself in one of the countries that have exerted the greatest fascination for Westerners. Despite the multiplication of artistic and cultural exchanges between East and West, travel to China remains associated with the idea of mystery, exoticism, and surprise, with the fragments of a millenary culture materialized in its great constructions of the past and the exoticism of those new paradises whose news are slowly distilled in the media: Shangrilá, Lijiang, or Lhasa.
During the trip to China, personal experience will allow organizing in an adequate way the fragments of information that make up its rich reality, because traveling to China is an experience that includes a multitude of situations always different, in a country with a thousand mysterious faces where any wonder seems possible. From that monumental culture inherited from imperial times, already familiar to some travelers, the journey to China opens up a range of possibilities that extends to the limits of its borders, encompassing little-known peoples, heirs to legendary kingdoms, and surprising cultures that are home to some of the most spectacular landscapes on our planet.
China blossoms for the traveler. Between its modernity and its tradition, the bustling cities of the coast and the solitary landscapes of the interior, its secrets revealed and those others that remain half-kept, no one will return disappointed from a trip to China, because whatever his interest, he will find an offer of activities capable of fulfilling his expectations.
China Top 10 Travel Destinations
beijing: the magnificent capital of China preserves the grandest monuments of the last dynasties.
dali: former capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom, the oldest and most commercial city in southwest China.
Guilin: the most beautiful landscape in China formed by the whimsical shape of its hills and rivers.
Kashgar: the only city on the Silk Road that has preserved its millenary traditions intact.
lijiang: facing the Jade Dragon Mountain, it was the capital of the Naxi Kings.
lhasa: the sacred city of Tibet, and pilgrimage destination for millions of people in East Asia.
Pingyao: The city where the time stopped.
shanghai: the most modern city in China, economic engine, cradle of trends.
Xian: capital of the main dynasties, its terracotta warriors attract thousands of tourists.
Yangyuan: spectacular mountains completely modified by the secular action of man.
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China Top Ten ancient capitals
beijing: the magnificent capital of China preserves the grandest monuments of the last dynasties.
dali: former capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom, the oldest and most commercial city in southwest China.
Datong: A short time capital of the Northern Wei dynasty, endowed however with enduring monuments.
Hangzhou: capital of the Song gourmets on the shores of the beautiful West Lake.
Kaifeng: Capital of the Song dynasty, it was inmortalized in art.
lhasa: the sacred city of Tibet, and pilgrimage destination for millions of people in East Asia.
Luoyang. The ancient capital of 2.000 years.
Nanjing. The south capital, the main political center in the lower Yangtze since the fall of the Han dynasty.
Xian: capital of the main dynasties, its terracotta warriors attract thousands of tourists.
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China Top Ten Natural wonders
- – Guilin karstic mountains and rivers.
- – Zhangjiajie «Avatar» magical mountains.
- – Luoping rape-sedd landscape.
- – Zhangye Danxia coloured lands.
- – Jiuzhaigou Tibetan lakes.
- – Huanglong coloured waters.
- – Yuanyang terraced fields.
- – Taklamakan desert highway.
- – Karakul lake.
- – Yambrok lake in Tibet.
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