Plan your Suzhou tour? Visiting the World Cultural Heritage crowned classical gardens in Suzhou is a must for many first time visitors. The Lion Grove Garden (狮子林) is one of the most famous gardens in Suzhou and the other three are the Humble Administrator’s Garden, Canglang Pavilion and the Lingering Garden. Where is Lion Grove…
Plan your Suzhou tour? Suzhou is just less than a 30-minute highs peed train ride from Shanghai or 2 hour from Hangzhou. The Suzhou Railway Station for high speed trains is located on the north of the city moat in Suzhou. One of the must-see attractions in Suzhou is the Humble Administrator’s Garden (拙政园), crowned…
Plan your Pingyao tour? If you have 2 days to spare after your Beijing tour, you are advised to visit Pingyao Ancient City, immersing yourself in an authentic China walled city which has been well preserved. A side trip from Beijing to Ping Yao will tear you away from Beijing’s modernity and take you closer…
Plan your Shanghai tour in December? December sees an autumn slowly morphing into winter in Shanghai and the temperature goes down at a big margin though it is not as cold as that in the northern China. If you choose this month to tour the megacity of Shanghai, get ready for warm clothes – overcoat,…
Plan your Xian tour in December? For various reasons, you are going to visit Xian in December. Well, December is not a glorious month to visit Xian since the temperature is low ( average lowest -3℃ during the month) often coupled with gusty wind blowing hard on your face. But the things are not so…
“It is snowing!” has become a rare excitement for the local Hangzhou people. Hangzhou, in China’s mid-east coastal area, used to snow quite a lot even just back to 1970s when I was a kid. Playing snowball fight, making a snowman and taking snow scene photos were much expected during each snowfall. Partly due to the global warming, Hangzhou…
The Total Taxi Number in Nanjing Plan your Nanjing tour? At the time of my writing, Nanjing has over 9,000 taxis in service. The competition is hectic due to the rising of mobile transportation companies. But the traditional Taxis still ply the main street in the city. Basically it is very convenient to find a…
Plan your Nanjing tour? If you take a high-speed train from Beijing or Shanghai to Nanjing, you’ll arrive at Nanjing South Railway Station. Nanjing has two major train stations – Nanjing Railway Station (for T and K trains) and Nanjing South Railway Station (for high-speed trains). Nanjing South Railway Station is one of the largest…