Trip To China
For your next trip try something different and plan a trip to China. There are some really interesting and beautiful places to visit including the most popular tourist attractions in China. See these Top 10 Tourist Attractions in China and plan with a budget so that you can decide where to go and what places to see.
Most Popular Tourist Attractions
Now most of you have heard of the Great Wall of China and maybe some of you have visited. China has many other great attractions that are becoming more and more popular. Here are a few ideas:
- Great Wall of China: plan a tour or hike on the Great Wall.
- Mogao Caves: situated near Dunhuang at a crossroads on the Silk Road. The caves contain Buddhist art ranging from 1000 years old
- Huang Shan Mountain: great for hiking. Has cable cars to get to summit.
- Terracotta Army: terracotta sculptures of an army from the first Emperor of China circa 221BC.
- Forbidden City in Beijing: world’s largest palace built in the 15th century.
- Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong: one of the deepest ports for containers in the world.
- Potala Palace in Tibet: built in the 17th century as a residence for the Dalai Lama until China invaded in 1959.
- Li River Cruise from Guilin to Yanshuo
- Yangtze River Cruise: one of the world’s largest waterways and visit the Three Gorges River Dam the largest dam in the world.
- Shaolin Buddhist Monastery: located on Mount Song in the Henan province
These are the most popular tourist attractions in China. There are other places that can be visited depending on your taste and what you want out of your holiday. The above list gives a great variety of tourist attractions to choose from and it would be good to see some of them. Then maybe take a trip to some of the other attractions even if they are out of the way as it will offer other experiences.
Other Tourist Activities
A trip to another country would not be complete without seeing something of the culture and life of the people especially if you have not visited the country before. In China there are many temples and Buddhist monasteries to visit which will display much of the folk culture and art of the people. It has a long association with martial arts and many paintings can be seen depicting the study of the arts.
Beautiful China
Jiuzhai Valley National Park is in the Min Shan mountain range in northern Sichuan. It has lakes, waterfalls, forests and beautiful scenery with almost 75,000 acres of land with pandas, monkeys and blue sheep living there. It is definitely a must-see for nature lovers and animals lovers. Bring your camera as the views are spectacular and like something out of a dream.
At the different China Tour Destination and tourist sites, see if you can get self-guided tours or if you have to book a tour guide to translate or help you with the language and signs. It is good to pack an electronic translator to help when travelling in the orient. It is also good to look at tours that will have a specialist tour guide to help with the language.
Travel To The Land Of The Pandas
When planning to tour this country, it is good to get in touch with a China tour specialist to make sure that you can take in all the important tourist attractions in China and be able to choose other places that interest you most according to your personality.
Travelling to this land of the pandas requires people from Europe to have visas so make sure that you have checked the regulations and how long it will take to get one before booking your trip. Contact a China travel company for more information and to see if they can organise your adventures in China to make sure you get the best deal.
Author Bio: Johanna Zhen lives in Hong Kong and has a full-time job during the year teaching in a local school. She comes from a very international family and speaks many languages including Cantonese and Tagalog. She loves to travel and loves to write for local travel magazines about her insights and tips on travelling in the orient.
She has worked as a translator and summer camp counsellor offering tours for visiting students and helping them through some of the top 10 tourist attractions in China and organise self-guided tours of the city.