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Ping Yao is an ancient walled city where banking was started in China. The city claimed 22 out of a total of 51 banks in the country with 400 branches. Other sights to see is the Zhangbi Old Fort [over 1300 years old] that is underground for about ...
Ancient City of Ping Yao
Zhuji is a pearl farming area. We flew from Beijing to Hangzhou [about 2 hours] and drove another 1-1/2 hrs to visit a pearl farm and follow the trail to get the pearl to market. It starts with the "freshwater" lake where an irritant is put into th...
Zhuji
Xiamen is located on the southeast coast of China with a subtropical monsoon climate and mild weather all year round. They have beaches, temples, "Piano Island" that houses over 200 antique pianos and was a common concession after the opium war in 1...
Xiamen
The time to go to Harbin is in the dead of winter at its coldest, January and February. During that time is the Ice and Snow Festival. Harbin is located close to the Siberian border so you can imagine the cold. When we were there in January, the d...
Harbin
The cities are located in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province; closest to Tibet we got. There are 9 ethnic Tibetan villages scattered around the valley. The altitude was 11,312 feet and boy, could you f...
Jiuzhaigou
Guilin is the area that you see in the National Geographic commercials with the unusual mountains and cormorants fishing in China on the Li River. Things to see in Guilin is Elephant Trunk Hill, Reed Flute Cave with stalagmites and stalactites, Seve...
Guilin
Who would have thought that Beijing would have the best carrot cake I have ever tasted. I must confess I am normally not a carrot cake person but this carrot cake is different. It is much denser, creamier, served cold with of course, cream cheese fr...
Element Fresh
Danxia is in the Gansu Province in central north China. This area is a geological structure that was formed by the erosion of red sandstone, forming the isolated peaks and steep outcrops and due to the long-term weathers, freeze-that peeling and win...
Zhangye Danxia (Rainbow Hills)
OMG, this was an all-girls trip with our Canadian guide, Susan, from Zhangye to Dunhuang after sending the guys back to Beijing. Had I known what we were doing, I would have been hesitant to go, but what an experience. We rode an all-night local tr...
Dunhuang