If you are an antique lover traveling Beijing during spring festival, then you should not miss Panjiayuan Temple Fair. Panjiayuan Temple Fair has its own official name called “Panjiayuan Spring Festival Fair”. This year 2012 is the 4th Panjiayuan Spring Festival Fair. Panjiayuan Temple Fair is located in the west part of Panjianyuan Market ( Panjiayuan…
Plan your Beijing trip during spring festival? Visiting a temple fair is a must. For each spring festival, I’d like to visit one temple fair to feel and touch the new year. My pick this year is to visit the temple fair inside Chaoyang Park since I’ve heard a lot about this special temple fair…
With the deafening blasts of fireworks and firecrackers all surrounding me, here comes the Chinese new year 2012, the year of dragon. China has a long tradition of playing firecrakers and fireworks in a hope to wipe off the bad luck from the past year and ushers in good fortune and prosperity in the new…
Chinese have learnt to use any and all available means and resources at their disposal to their benefit. They work hard and find ways to do it in such a unique manner that it might baffle people and also defy conventional methods. For example, they have trained birds to fish for them. Not any…
In two days we’ll say goodbye to the rabbit year of 2011 and enter the dragon year of 2012 which starts from Jan 23, 2012. Before turning to the new page to write our new history, we at tour-beijing.com look back at the passing year of 2011 with a light heart. The year 2011 fell into a dormant…
If you plan a Beijing tour during the Chinese new year, you would have an opportunity to see how Chinese people spend their new year. Chinese new year or Spring Festival gives Chinese people a week-long holiday, this year from Jan 22, the new year’s eve to Jan 29, 2012. This Chinese new year is coming…
China, known for its infrastructural might and study abroad programs China is also the country that houses several unique travel destinations. Shilin or the Stone Forest situated at the heart of Yunnan province in the Shilin Yi Autonomous County is an area flanked with clusters of karst landforms that offer a breathtaking view. The area…
Plan your China tour? It is advisable to have some basic knowledge of the working hours and business hours in China to better prepare for your trip. The Chinese government regulates that Chinese people work 8 hours a day with five working days a week and a maximum 44 working hours a week. In China, business hours are generally set between…