OLD VILLAGE IN GUANGZHOU CHINA
This was a 300+ y.o. mostly abandoned village we were taken to on our trip to Guangzhou China.
fisher place in guangzhou harbour
Took the Metro Line 8 and got off at Wanshengwei station, exit B and turned right and walked about 100 metres to the bus stop. Then took bus 229 for three stops (usual 2 RMB to the bus village's bus station.
Followed the crowd into the village.
Lots of snack bars, restaurants and shops selling local fruit, vegetables, poultry and fish. All very countryside and photogenic. Plenty of signs to the 'HuangPu Ancient Port Museum' and indeed all the other village's attractions but we'd come for the museum but it was the museum for us as this area is steeped in history related to the British in China.
The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday and with last entrance at 4 o'clock. Free admission but that may have been a special for Chinese New Year. Staff didn't seem too interested in searching our bags. I saw an English language leaflet in a display cabinet at the exit but the security guard either didn't have the key or was too bone idle to open it.
Anyway no need for it as nearly everything has a really good English caption. Lots of photographs and maps but little in the way of artifacts. A good display about the Swedish East India Company, a visit from their King and Queen was probably in 2006 responsible for this.
A good hour and a half to stroll round and read everything.Very interesting for this history buff but bored the pants of the locals who'd come in to get out of the rain. Not only trade but how western culture and medicine fared in China.
No gift shop, cafe or toilets much to my wife's chagrin.
Left the museum and turned right and walked about 200 metres and found the Goteborg memorial to commemorate the Swedish visit, easily found as it's next to the 'restroom'.
Easy to image the harbour with a few Western sailing ships floating in it. The old harbour is still there, you walk past it as you approach the museum but you have to look for it.
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Shaanxi History Museum, which is located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China. The museum houses over 370,000 items,including murals, paintings, pottery, coins, as well as bronze, gold, and silver objects. The modern museum was built between 1983 and 2001 and its appearance recalls the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty.
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Guangzhou or Canton (广州) , the capital of Guangdong Province, is the third largest city in China after Beijing and Shanghai with a population of more than 12 million. Founded in 214 BC, the city has been a springboard for trading, cultural exchanges, many revolutions and reforms, making it an unavoidable stopover to understand what shapes the modern China.
Guangzhou's isolation from the rest of 'typical China' by mountainous topography and early exposure to the outside world has resulted in its unique way of lifestyle, liberal ideas, distinctive cuisine and tremendous wealth. It is no surprise that Guangzhou is a cradle of many reforms and revolutions that changed the fate of China forever. Today Guangzhou still unveils many republic-era sights that help travelers understand modern Chinese history.
Founded in 214 BC, this capital of the richest province is always a mix of new and old. It not only boasts some of the oldest temples in China, a millenarian-old park, an imperial tomb of a southern kingdom and complete preservation of colonial villas and church on Shamian, but it also serves as a showcase of futuristic architectures and autopilot metro on Zhujiang New Town.
Despite its vibrant sight-seeing resources, travelers usually come to Guangzhou to shop and eat. Guangzhou accommodates countless huge markets specializing in almost any made-in-china products, including Chinese tea, herbs, garments, watches, electronics and toys. You will be appalled to see the real prices of those China-made products and the profit your local shops earn by selling them.
Guangzhou is divided into ten districts. Among them, Yuexiu and Liwan, the cradle for the Cantonese culture, has been the city center since the imperial era. Tianhe, which was a farming village decades ago, has been constructed into a new business center with some biggest shopping malls and highest skyscrapers in the city.
For travelers, the most useful road is Zhongshan Road, a 9 KM long highway horizontally cutting through the downtown of Guangzhou. The highway is divided into 8 sections. From Zhongshan 6 Road (中山六路）to Zhongshan 8 Road (中山八路) it covers around 80% tourist attractions and all famous restaurants. This area is well connected by Metro Line 1 from Changshou Lu (長壽路), Chen Clan Academy (陈家祠), Ximenkou(西门口） to Gongyuanqian (公园前)
Yuexiu (越秀 Yuèxiù) — The Zhongshan 6 Road area, which covers the original area of Yuexiu before its expansion in the 2005, has been the very core since 214 AD. Highlights include Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou Museum located at Zhanhai Tower, Orchid Garden, Mausoleum of Nanyue King, Guangxiao Temple, Temple of Six Banyan Trees, Huangsheng Mosque, Beijing Lu Shopping District, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Temple of Five Rams, Shishi Cathedral.
Liwan (荔湾 Lìwān) — On the north of the pearl river makes up the old Guangzhou area and home to the standard Cantonese accent (Xiguan Accent, literally West Gate Accent). Tourist highlights include the colonial Shamian Island, Xiguan Old Houses, Xiangxiajiu shopping Street, Liziwan Lake Park and Chen's Clan Academy.
Tianhe (天河 Tiānhé) is the business district, thriving with many skyscrapers and shopping malls. The newly developed Zhujiang New Town (珠江新城) is a showcase of futuristic urban planning and avant-garde architecture.
Haizhu (海珠'Hǎizhū') — At the south of the Pearl River, the former industrial district has transformed into more residential and business today. It is home to the city's latest landmark Canton Tower and the South Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University
Panyu (番禺 Pānyú) is an area getting more popular among local tourists. Its Lianhua Mountain boosts 100,000 blooming lotus flower and sits a huge Bodhisattva Guanyin statue.
Baiyun (白云 Báiyún) — This district is where the old airport is located. The Baiyun Mountain is a major attraction.
Huangpu (黄埔 Huángpǔ) is home to Huangpu Military Academy.
Nansha (南沙 Nánshā) is a newly developed area at the southern tip of the city.
Luogang (萝岗 Luógǎng) is famous for its plum forest and Tianlu Lake Forest Park.
Huadu (花都 Huādū) is where the New Baiyun International Airport is located.
Zengcheng (增城 Zēngchéng) is famous for its lychee fruit, which are picked in June and July.
Conghua (从化 Cónghuà) is popular among tourists for its hot springs and Tianhe (Heavenly Lake) Recreation area.
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We finished the day watching the Chinese Circus in Shanghai named Shanghai Circus World. The acrobatics is impressive and I had a great first day in Shanghai, China.
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10.Pudong Skyline
Pudong is a district in Shanghai on the eastern side of the Huangpu River that has emerged as China’s financial and commercial hub. A skyline of gleaming skyscrapers rises out of what was mere farmland only 20 years ago. Skyscrapers includes the symbolic Oriental Pearl Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Jin Mao Building and the Shanghai Tower that should be finished in 2014.
9.Mogao Caves
The Mogao Caves form a system of 492 temples 25 km (15.5 miles) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a crossroads on the Silk Road. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of about a 1,000 years. Construction of the Buddhist cave shrines began in 366 AD as places to store scriptures and art.The Mogao Caves are one of the three most famous ancient rock-cut temples in China.
8.Leshan Giant Buddha
The Giant Buddha of Leshan is a gigantic Buddha statue carved out of a cliff face in Sichuan, western China. Begun in the year 713 during the Tang Dynasty, the statue was not completed until the year 803, and was the effort of thousands of sculptors and workers. The Leshan Giant Buddha stands about 71 meters (233 feet) high and has three meter (11 feet) long fingers on each of its enormous resting hands.
7.Mount Huang
Mount Huang is a mountain range in eastern China also known as Huangshan (“Yellow Mountain”). The area is well known for its scenery, pine trees, peculiarly-shaped granite peaks and views of the clouds from above. In ancient times almost 60,000 stone steps were carved into the side of the mountain range. Today there are also cable cars for tourists.
6.Li River Cruise
A Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo is the highlight of any trip to northeastern Guangxi Province. The landscape is decorated with amazing hills, steep cliffs, incredible caves and farming villages, and is lined with bamboo groves.The scenery along the Li River is one of the top tourist attractions in China.
5.Terracotta Army
The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang (221 BC-206 BC), the first Emperor of China. It is the most popular tourist attraction in Xián and one of the most popular in all of China. It is estimated that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried in the pits.
4.Victoria Harbour
Victoria Harbour is one of the deepest container ports in the world. The bay offers stunning views of the skyscrapers of Hong Kong island on one side, and the Tsim Sha Tsui shoreline on the other. Victoria Harbour is also one of the busiest harbors in the world with hundreds of ferries, junks and speed boats darting up and down the shore.
3.Forbidden City
Located in the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City is the world’s largest palace covering 72 hectares. Built from 1406 to 1420, the palace complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 rooms surrounded by a six meter (20 ft) deep moat and a ten meter (33 ft) high wall. Twenty-four emperors reigned over the country for almost 5 centuries from the Forbidden City until the abdication of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. Today the Forbidden City is a museum.
2.Potala Palace
Situated 130 meters above the Lhasa valley, the Potala Palace rises a further 170 meters and is the greatest monumental structure in all of Tibet. The construction of the present palace began in 1645 during the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama and by 1648 the Potrang Karpo, or White Palace, was completed. The Potrang Marpo, or Red Palace, was added between 1690 and 1694. The Potala Palace remained the residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India, after the Chinese invasion in 1959.
1.Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from the attacks of nomadic tribes from the north. The majority of the existing wall were built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD).The most popular area of the Great Wall is at Badaling.
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Guan Zhong folk Art Museum first which is located in a village at the foot of a mountain in xi'an China. GuanZhong, which means the central part of ShaanXi Province. This is a rather large museum, where the owner collects more than 40 entire home-estates or complete buildings with countless art and cultural items from local area and re-assembles and displays them in the village. It is the most authentic historic Chinese architectural spot where the buildings from Ming and Qing periods were survived from the bulldozers and transported stone by stone to this area and reconstructed. You will be guided through part of the some 40 acres of the village and walk in and out of many old buildings, each with a long history.
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The girls journey to a historic cemetery where Western travelers of long ago are buried. Changzhou Island is the home of the Huangpu Military Academy, and team exercises still occur.
But on another corner of the island, Ava and Sofie come across the Foreigners Cemetery. Walking amongst the graves, they find people from back home in Massachusetts who died in China, including the American ambassador and man of letters Alexander Hill Everett.
Then it is off to the Metro for a subway ride back to into town. Time to jump on the bus and bid farewell to the ancient city of Guangzhou!
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Top 10 Best Places to Visit in China.
To save your time and energy and allow the best value for your money, we carefully selected the top ten best places to visit in China and the most popular tour packages, in the hope of guiding international travelers especially first-time visitors to better plan their vacation.
1. Beijing
2. Shanghai
3. Xian
4. Guilin
5. Chengdu
6. Hong Kong
7. Tibet
8. Guangzhou
9. Hangzhou
10. Sanya
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