China Travel Guide

China is a popular destination for holidays in the affluent culture surroundings including Zen. With 1, 3 billion people spread over a territory, you must make choices to discover its treasures. Since the wonderful journey of Marco Polo, the mysteries of the "Middle Kingdom" have always attracted Westerners. With the shelter of exterior influences for several centuries, China remains another world to discover.

There is something for every taste: the urban revelers will gather in modern cities like Hong Kong or Shanghai where the Chinese youth mark the rupture with the previous generation, more traditional.

The Chinese New Year is one of those ancient festivals. The Chinese celebrate the first moon of the first month of the year and prepare real banquets which blend the sounds and firecrackers into the day's most animated calendar. It is also the subject of a national holiday.

Lovers of old buildings will be in the center of China to visit the cradle of Chinese civilization with Xi'An or Pingyao.

China is full of beautiful natural sites including Yunnan, the province at the gates of Tibet, very fertile, where you will see the rice fields on the undulating the hills. Go to the discovery of natural wonders that you would have never suspected: the Baimang Snow Mountain, the Stone Forest, known as the 'First Wonder of the World' or the Reed Flute Cave.

In Shanghai, do not miss the magnificent Temple of Jade Buddha and the Jin Mao Tower. High over 400m, this tower symbolizes the recent economic expansion in Shanghai. From the top, the panorama is stunning, especially on the new business area called Pudong.

Admire the huge sites, built by hand of men, to reflect the size of the country: the Great Wall of China, the Summer Palace and the Leshan Giant Buddha.

Learn the history of the country with monuments such as the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, or the Bund in Shanghai.

Discover the great museums in Beijing and Hong Kong which relate China since ancient times through a sophisticated museum. You can also follow the footsteps of the emperors of China, the ancient capital Xi'An to the Forbidden City, located in the capital since 1421, Beijing.

Learn about Chinese culture by practicing tai chi in parks, drinking black tea, or playing the game on a shaded terrace.

Experience the unique cuisine of China, between rice, noodles, duck, scorpions, eggs melted a hundred days.

You can also enjoy your trip into a gastronomy route. In China, rice has its place at each meal, but in the Northern provinces, will also serve noodles and steamed roll. The Chinese breakfast is a true meal containing porridge made of rice and meat crumbs and salted vegetables, dried fish...

Some specialties not to be missed: the cabbage of Tientsin, the Peking duck, the ravioli stuffed with meat, eel cooked in wine, fried noodles with freshwater shrimp or smoked duck with tea leaves and fin soup.

So let yourself be caught by China with the thousand faces…

• Beijing
• Changchun
• Changsha
• Chengdu
• Chongqing
• Dalian
• Guangzhou
• Handan
• Hangzhou
• Harbin
• Hong Kong
• Jinan

• Kaohsiung
• Lanzhou
• Nanjing
• Qingdao
• Shanghai
• Shenyang
• Shenzhen
• Taiyuan
• Tianjin
• Wuhan
• Xi'an
• Zhengzhou