What are the main attractions of China, and activities?

Beijing

With its skyscrapers and relatively affluent population, capital brings together the best of modern China, but the past lives in some magnificent imperial symbols, including the elegant palaces of the Forbidden City and the extraordinary large, round Temple of Heaven. The center, in search of increasingly reducing the number of hutongs, the narrow streets, the make-up of ancient Beijing. There is also China's first line of restaurants and nightlifeuse - everything from tea-house theater and acrobatics show the club that plays only the lower house. In the immediate vicinity of the capital lies the Summer Palace imperial parks are spacious and clean, and the guardians of stone chambers of the Tombs of the Ming

The Great Wall

This extraordinary work of civil engineering was started in the 5th century and has reached 6,000 kilometers across China. Most of the remaining sections are within reach of the InternetScope of Beijing, also fans of Badaling and Simatai and Jinshanling less commercialized

Xi'an

get rich with the ancient Silk Road trade Xi'an was one of China 's former capital city. Its most famous attraction is the Terracotta Army, life-size figures, guarding the tomb of the country's first emperor, Shi Huang Win, but there are a lot more in Xi'an, Tang pagodas including the two 1300-year -old and the new stone age in the near Banpo. The famousKung-Fu Shaolin Temple has been within a day's journey to the east, near Luoyang - packed with visitors, its a tourist trap, filled with weapons and clothing shops with Wushu students demonstrate their abilities.

The Li River

Find exactly like a Chinese scroll painting, a parade of big and beautiful limestone peaks flanks 85 km from Li River in the southwestern province of Guangxi weather. Base yourself in either the-city tour packageGuilin Yangshuo village or soft, then cruise around or hire a bike and ride out the landscape.

Shanghai

With more than thirteen million people, Shanghai is the most populous city in the world. E 'buzzy, nightlife style-conscious is fantastic, second only to Beijing, and the mall read business for tailored clothes and glamorous shopping malls. Although the city has very few indispensable sites, the well presentedShanghai Museum is the perfect introduction to the artistic heritage of China's phenomenal. Shanghai sports also pockets of European Art Deco architecture from the waterfront and the river, a legacy of his time as a concession former colonial power, strategically located near the mouth of the river Yangtze.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a city of modern wonders of the world sees better at night, while crossing the harbor on the Star Ferry, though under thefamous tram to Victoria Peak offers another classic scene. Shopping Hong Kong is a major pastime, with glitzy shopping malls too, in the chaotic Temple Street Night Market and the more traditional Stanley Market. Hong Kong is also the only place for dim sum brunch. Away from the shopping center, offers the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery Shatin statues of the temple and beautiful views of the hills, and there is historical interest in the walled village of Kat Hing Wai Qing dynasty. OSpend a day or two poking among the less developed outer islands to explore Lantau small beaches and forested hills or visiting the Portuguese enclave of Macau

Three Gorges

The last leg of the 6400-km-long Yangtze River in China and is still used as a traffic artery. Take the ferry across the Three Gorges between Chongqing and Yichang city in Hubei Sichaunese, a three-day trip of 250 miles past the ancient city, turbulent and driedspectacular cliff scenery, some of which are under the threat of flooding from a massive dam project, and very controversial, should be completed in 2009

Tibet

The "Roof of the World" is a place of red-robed monks and monasteries closely together against the awesome vastness of the Tibetan Plateau. It is also trying to shake off the heavy hand of Chinese military power, but also the Dalai Lama into exile in India, encourages people to visit the region and see first-hand.Take some 'time and after the mighty Potala Square - the main tourist attraction of Tibet - in the capital Lhasa, out at least youristed monasteries in Shigatse and Gyantse. By 2008, access to Tibet will be possible from what is on the spectacular Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the highest in the world. It runs about 1,100 km from Golmud to Lhasa, mostly at an altitude of 4000 meters or more compartments with the pressure to prevent altitude sickness.

And Guangxi Guizhou

The rural areas of these provinces are among the poorest in China, but it's worth exploring minorities Guangxi fabulous terraced hills around here, especially the Dong village of Zhaoxing in the north. The Miao hill tribe villages around Kaili in Guizhou noisy reception celebrations throughout the year, with bull fights, dance, dragon boat racing and fantastic combinations.

Kashgar

An oasis in the citydesert north-west> China, Kashgar is populated by Muslim people, Turkish-speaking Ulgir. Its charm lies in its very isolation from the rest of China - and its Sunday edition Bazaar, an Arab-night affair, Pakistan attracts 100,000 people, including thousands from the surrounding Krygystan, Turkestan, Tajkistan and trade everything from camels, carpets and plastic buckets

The Silk Road

Follow the ancient Silk Road between China and Central AsiaAsia - a train of 3000 km, and by bus from Xi'an to Kashgar. Along the way, may be found in remote parts of the Great Wall, the Bird Watching Lake Qinghai Hu, amazing art eight-century Buddhist cave in Dung Huang, oasis city of Turfan and the fiery sands of the Taklamakan Desert.

Hangzhou and Suzhou

Once an important trading center at 1800 km Grand Canal in Hangzhou in eastern China is set by the proverbial excursionXi Hu or West Lake, surrounded by trees and dotted with pagodas and rolling parkland, the area with fishing boats. It's worth it for the loot 60 km north of Suzhou, another city of the channel with a variety of traditional Chinese gardens.

Changbai Shan Nature Reserve

Directly on the Chinese border with North Korea, Changbai Shan is difficult to achieve, even when the road opened in the summer, but the reward is the beautiful blue Tian Chi - Heaven's Lake "- and the chance of light thatcan locate the Siberian tiger. Restaurants will be more likely to go sample some of the rare mushrooms and medicinal plants, the local collection and serve here; Changbai Shan Ginseng is considered the best in China.

Yunnan to Sichuan

China fog region different, these two provinces stretching from Tibet, the tropical rainforests of Xishuangbanna steam, as well as neighboring Laos, Vietnam and Burma. Top places sacred mountains of Sichuan, Emei Shan,Here you can sleep and eat a dozen or more Buddhist temples Yunnannese city of Dali, with its ethnic Bai people and live in the mountains and Lake Lijiang, a delightful maze of cobbled streets and wooden houses, the home of the Naxi Tibetan derived and the strong against the dramatic backdrop of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest canyon in the world, with a decline of 2.5 km.

Chaozhou

A traditional self-conscious city in the southern province of Guangdong,Chaozhou is the nineteenth century, streets and even older architecture, its walls and beautiful Kaiyuan Temple, making it a pleasure to explore. must also try the gourmet restaurants Chaozhou, for its bitter taste kungfu tea refreshing and fruit sauces known.