Monthly Archives: February 2013

Have you ever thought enjoying the amazing beauty of your tour destination just from your hotel window rather than going out? Yep, so unbelievable! Here are 5 wonderful hotels in China with fascinate views, which will undoubtedly make your tour in China enjoyable and unforgettable.

Grand Hotel Beijing, a five star hotel, is characterized by the traditional sweeps and dragon’s tails, where you will enjoy the high-standard equipment and facility. Moreover, you’ll also get a bird’s eyes view of the Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City. Just lying in the comfortable bed and appreciating the majestic view of the Forbidden City and the Tiananmen Square—so great!

Hotel Indigo Shanghai, featuring superb creature comforts and boutique style, is the first Hotel Indigo in Asia Pacific. You will enjoy your staying here not only because its design, equipment, recreation activity, service, but also the alluring view of the Shanghai old town, Huangpu River, the gleaming Pudong skyline, and Bund from its room windows.

St. Regis Lhasa Resort of Tibet Autonomous Region, the first international luxury brand hotel in Tibet and one of the highest luxury hotels all over the world, offers excellent home amenities and facilities including a Iridium Spa to make sure that there is absolute soothing relief from altitude stress. What’s more, you can view the mysterious Potala Palace just from your room hotel’s window. How astonishing!

Ritz-Carlton Guangzhou Guangdong, the tallest structure in China and the world’s second tallest TV tower, is located in Guangzhou’s Central Business District featuring the world-standard design, equipment and facility. It is also a wonderful hotel worthy your stay where you can enjoy the captivating scenery of the Pearl River, Guangzhou Opera House and Guangzhou Museum just staying at your bed without going out of the hotel.

Li-An Lodge Guangxi, located atop on top of a mountain in Guilin, is an entirely wood structure implementing the Chinese traditional building technique of tongue and groove without a single nail.Maybe you have never stayed in this kind of wooden lodge before, right? You can have a try here, so exciting and novel! What really shocks you will be the charming scenery of the rice terraces in its font and under-footing—a field of green in spring and yellow in autumn, you really cannot believe it!

Are they beckoning? I’m sure the answer is “ yes”! Right, just plan your tour to these destinations for your China tour now, and your 2013 will be full of miracle and surprise!

July—Torch Festival in southwest China mainly from 24th to 26th of the June of lunar calendar according to the traditional calendar of the Yi minority to bless a good harvest during its upcoming New Year. When you travel there, you will also take part in their celebration with their traditional music, dancing, firework and bull fighting around bonfires.

August, of course the Qingdao International Beer Festival starting in the second weekend of August for 16 days in Qingdao of Shandong province. Traveling there at that time, you can undoubtedly enjoy the largest beer party in Asia to celebrate its the German-style Tsingtao Beer. You can not only experience the beer tastings, and drinking contests, but also enjoy the games, music, parades and live performances there.

September, right, the Mid-Autumn Festival in honor of the Chang’e in the fifteenth Day of the August of the Lunar Calendar when Chinese people get together to have big meal, appreciate the beauty of the moon and taste the delicious moon cakes. It is the most happiest moment for all the Chinese people to get together with their family members.

October—Shaoxing Rice Wine Festival starting from mid-October for a month in Shaoxing of Zhejiang province to showcase its famous Huangjiu, a kind of traditional Chinese fermented rice wine. You can taste the wine there at that time, watch the exciting performance and learn about the process of the Shaoxing Rice Wine by walking around the local brewery.

November—Miaonian Festival in around mid-November in Miao ethnic area especially in Leishan county of Guizhou province. During the festival, the Miao women wear their traditional garbs to celebrate their New Year. If you take a challengeable tour to these minority areas, you will view bullfights, horse racing and enjoy their traditional music which is played on a reed-pipe wind instrument.

December—Dong New Year’s Festival stating from 1st to 11th of November of the lunar calendar mainly in Qindongnan county of the Guizhou province. One activity of the celebration is the water buffalo fight, which will make your tour there fantastic and memorable. Traveling there, the intricate architecture and famous drum towers will also shock you.

Most travelers pay more attentions to the weather of their destinations in China, such as winter to Harbin or Hainan Island, late spring to Li River, summer to most of China cities and autumn to Jiuzhaigou. However, to some other challengers or adventurers, they’d like to challenge themselves and experience the unique ethnic customs or the festivals to make their China tour special. Here are the monthly festivals in China to help make your tour in China much more unforgettable.

January—Harbin Ice and Snow Festival starting from January 5 and lasting for over one month in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, which is famous for for its exquisite and artistic ice and snow sculptures. The Sun Island Park is where you can see the Snow Sculpture Exposition displaying a wonderful snow world; Ice and Snow World, however, is one of the world’s largest ice architecture parks where you can view the amazing frozen buildings; and the Zhaolin Park is somewhere shows the most excellent ice lanterns and a must-visit place during the festival.

February—Spring Festival of China in 1st January in lunar calendar. During the Spring festival, you will see all kinds of festive scene in China including lion dancing, temple visiting, fireworks etc. All Chinese people celebrate this great festival in their own ways. And you can taste special Spring Festival food if you visit China during this period.

March—Gongcheng Peach Blossom Festival in Guilin, where you can see the beautiful Peach Blossom all over the mountains and plains in front of you when you travel there. During the festival, you can also get the chance to taste the local oil tea there, which is a concoction of fried tea leaves, spices and puffed rice. As a symbol of life, growth and prosperity, the Peach Blossom will bring good luck to you all the year round.

April—Water Splashing Festival for the Dai minority people to celebrate their New Year in April 12-15, 2013 and signify good luck and health. Just have a trip to Xishuangbanna of Yunnan province at that time to enjoy the funny and meaningful water flight and water bathe with a water gun. So unimaginable!

May—Buddha Bathing Festival in the fourth day of April of lunar calendar in Dengfeng, the hometown of the Shaolin Temple. It is meant to honor the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha with the following activities: gather together all the monks in Shaolin Temple of Western Saints to put the figure of Buddha into a basin, bathe the figure with the scented water while singing sutra and then sprinkle water on monks to drive away the evil.

 June—Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth day of the May of the lunar calendar to remember the suicide of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet. All cities in China celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with astonishing boat design, especially in big cites with large lakes such as Qinglong and Houhai in Beijing, and you can taste the delicious traditional Chinese rice-pudding at that day.

Want to travel to China with your kids? And also want to make your trip comfortable and enjoyable at the same time? Here are some tips for you to travel to China with your kids about how to plan, what to pack and how to do for easy traveling around China with your children.

1) How to plan your itinerary: Do remember that your tour in China should involve more interesting places and avoid changeable places as kids are often too young to enjoy those museums, historical sites or steep mountains which will make your tour tired and make your kids feel bored. Try to plan your tour containing as many as interesting sites such as zoos and amusement parks such as the Disney in Hong Kong, Changlong Amusement Park in Guangzhou or Seven Star Park in Guilin, and Giant Panda Research Base in Chengdu to see the giant panda. Just take into consideration the attention span and interests of your kids when you plan your tour to China.

2) What to pack for your tour: Though most of the baby supplies such as baby formula, children’ medication, toys and so on can be bought in China, you’d better to take your own supply if you want to make your child comfortable and your tour enjoyable. What you should pack is listed in the follows: Infant formula firstly, diapers cream, first-aid kit which includes children’ fever suspension medicine, children’ antihistamine, children’ rehydration powder or liquid, disinfectant gel and other medication your child uses regularly. Do remember that the medicine you pack can be set in the pharmacy-dispensed bottle so as you can take them conveniently. In addiction, take a plenty of various toys, books, computer games, drawing supplies etc. to make the plane trips of your kids busy and wonderful as it is always a long trip of more than 10 hours from US and UK to China. And take as much as snacks along with you as Chinese food for most of the foreigners are unsavory.

3) During your tour in China. Do remember that don’t make your kids nervous. Most of the parents can’t stop worrying about everything what will happen to their kids, which makes their kids nervous wrecks and feel worse by the time they reach China. Just take it easy as China is a country of hospitality, and the Chinese people are friendly to foreigners and even show love to fair-haired kids. There is no need to make you and your kids so nervous and just make sure they know how to speak to strangers. Besides, if your kids cannot get used to the Chinese food, you can take them to fast food places like McDonalds and KFC, which can be easily find in big cities in China.