Scandinavia Travel
Climate Extending as it does for more than 1800 km (1100 miles) from north to south, Scandinavia shows great climatic variations. Denmark and southern Sweden, with their cool, temperate …
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Chinese travel quotes
Travellers’ cheques and international credit cards – but not Eurocheques -are accepted in banks, tourist hotels, Friendship Stores and antique shops. Money can be exchanged in various branches of …
Chinese new year travel
Having completed two-thirds of theclimjD and arrived at the junction ofthe east and west routes, the climber will now reach the Halfway Gate to Heaven, a stone edifice from …
Language for China
Spoken Chinese breaks down into a number of dialects with a basic difference between those of the north and the south. There are eight main dialects in total with …
Chinese national travel
The beer is very good and comparable with lager and German-style beers, with Qingdao and Beijing the best known brands. Wine made from grapes tends to be very sweet, …
Visit to Taiwan
Hualien (pop. 150,000) is the capital of the Hualien district in the east of central Taiwan. Some 80,000 descendants of the island’s original native inhabitants live in this region, …
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Religion and Philosophy The Chinese are not familiar with the concept of religion in a Western thought sense. For them it has more to do with school and teaching. …
China tourist attractions map
Even by the Second World War the progress of Chinese industry had been very slow and in the subsequent decades it developed unevenly under a political system which was …
On Lake Taihu and the Grand Canal
One of the highlights of a visit to China isthe83km/52 mile boat trip on the Li River from Guilin to Yangzhuo. The tourist boats travel through lovely karst scenery, …
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The Dragon Boat Festival heralding the arrival of summer is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, around the end of May, and again is not …