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Guilin, China

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Yangshuo (waterway)

There’s two ways to have a taste of Yangshuo from Guilin. One is bamboo raft. Two is pleasure boat.

 DIY tour can choose to take regular bus from bus terminal to Yangdi wharf.

Bamboo raft divide into Yangdi area and Xingping area. One raft can take 4 people. Whole tour is about 1.5 hours. There’s age and height limit, kids under 7years old within 1.2meter and above 70 years old is forbid to take raft. When your family or friend can’t take the raft then you need to take the pleasure boat to enjoy your tour. Timing is about 4 hours. Pleasure boat have two kinds of boat, regular and luxury. Simple meal will be served at noon.

 Yangdi area ticket: 160RMB

Xing’ping area ticket: 120RMB

Regular Pleasure boat: 250RMB

Luxury Pleasure boat: 330

Impression Liu Sanjie show: 238RMB

Tips:

Despite the management of the Lijiang river scenic area Bamboo raft worker might demand more tips. The rest of the rules can be noticed at the ‘scenic area tips’.

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Longji Rice Terraces

Longji Rice Terraces is honored as the best Terraces of the world and he best photo-taking place. The Terraces with her golden all over the mountains and plains attract amount of people to visit during harvest season.

Traffic:

self-driving, chartered bus, one-day tour.

 Tips:

If this is the fist time you have come to Guilin we don’t recommend self-driving travel because of the path to Longji Rice Terraces runs zigzag up the hill. It’s can be dangerous if you don’t familiar with the travel line.

 Through Longji scenic spot to go up the mountain need to take the special vehicle(40RMB). You need to ask if the charge including this project if you have intention to sigh up to Travel agency. It’s OK if it’s not. The cost is well-known as 40RMB.

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Guilin （桂林）

The best Travel time

To travel to Guilin is April to October. Guilin will enter rainy season in late may. The water level in Lijiang River will rises with rapid current and muddy water but the water temperature’s still low. You can still enjoy the last dreamlike scenery at Lijiang River. The rainy season end by July, water will be limpid, then the busy season will follow. Therefore I suggest take off by May or September if you’re afraid of the heat.

 Tips:

1. April is Head of Spring in Guilin, pack a piece of interchange jacket to keep out the wind.

2. May and June is rainy season, powerful humid. Although the maximum temperature is about 32C but because of the humidity the weather is muggy. So that it’s but to put on your thin cloth.

3. July and August is during midsummer, remembering your sun block. It’s best to put on your flat shoes when you go out climbing or playing with water.

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Jelly seaworm

It’s said if you don’t try jelly seaworm, you have never been to Xia’men. It’s boiled by a kind of seaworm, which is called “Tu’sun” by the locals. Full of protein.  Match with soy sauce, series of vinegar, sweet chili sauce, mustard, minced garlic, jellyfish and caraway, white radish, pepper, tomato flakes.

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Traditional Chinese meat rice-pudding

It’s made by stir frying glutinous rice, pork, chestnuts, mushrooms and shrimp and red beans. Wrapping with bamboo leaves into a pyramid shape, and tie them, then braise them in a soup. With lard and rice’s smooth and chestnut’s glutinous match with sweet chili sauce.

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Noodle with satay sauce

This dish is very popular in Xia’men and is sold in almost every noodle shop. The soup has a clay color due to the addition of ground peanuts, which give the dish a rich aroma. There is also a hint of spiciness in it but not too strong. You can add various condiments to the bowl of noodles, including squid rings, shrimp, pork belly, pork innards and so on

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Spring pancake

Unlike northern habits to eat at Start of Spring. The Spring pancake used to be eaten during Spring or Tomb-sweeping day. Extremely thin cake with Tiger moss , crushed peanuts, egg filaments and greens, fish meat, shrimp meat, crab meat, oyster cakes……

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Xia’men University

One of the top ten most beautiful universities in China.

Open at 12:00am  admission by ID card

You will found yourself stand in a long queue if you arrive at about 11:00. You can take bus to go to the well-know local snack---satay noodles. Because you won’t have to queue up for Xia’men University if you can miss the fastigium (12:00). So it’s the best to go there at 12:30 to 13:00.

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Baicheng Beach (白城沙滩）

Located at HuanDao road. Taking bus is most convenient if you started off from ZengCuo’an. If you don’t want to go on foot youcan rent bicycles or e-scooter when you arrive. The scenery here not so as GuLang’yu Beach but it’s more carefree and leisurely. Because of the proper temperature and the clean air is built for you to enjoy.

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Xiamen （厦门）

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10 Chinese dishes you can't miss in Xi'an

(The following site contains a reproduction from

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/08/foodanddrink/china-xian-must-eat-food/index.html)

01. Flatbread in mutton soup (yangrou paomo) – Yangrou paomo is the mosticonic dish in the Xi’an foolscap. The ritual before eating a paomo – tearing the bread into small pieces yourself before letting the chef turn it into a stew– is as enjoyable as the dish itself.

02. Xian meat burger (roujiamo) – Roujiamo is the city’s favorite burger. A delicious roujiamo is composed of two key elements – juicy shredded braised pork and a crispy baked bread.

03. Cold noodles (liangpi) – Rice noodles are cooked, cooled and thinly sliced. The noodles are often served in a sauce made of chili oil, pepper powder, vinegar and diced garlic. Then it’s garnished with bean sprouts and sliced cucumber.

04. Biangbiang noodles – commonly described as resembling a belt, biangbiang noodles are wide, thick and long. One string of noodles can easily fill you up.

05. Hot and sour soup dumpling (suantang shuijiao) – Who can resist a bowl of dumplings swimming in hot and sour soup with sesame seeds , minced leek and cilantro? Suantang shuijiao is flavorful and refreshing with a lingering (and pleasant) aftertaste.

06. Steamed beef and wheat powder (fenzhengrou) – This unassuming-looking dish packs 23 herbs, spices and seasonings into one serving and requires seven hours to cook.

07. Kabob (chuan’er) coated with chili and cumin power, it’s a highlyaddictive midnight snack for Xi’an residents. It’s not unusual for locals to order 100 of them in one go.

08. Pomegranate juice – Pomegranates are a local specialty product. Pomegranate juice stands pop up around town every fall.

09. Glutinous rice and date cake (zenggao) – Cooked overnight in a zeng – a traditional earthen utensil– most vendors only prepare one batch of zenggao (glutinous rice and date layered cake) a day.

10. Soup dumpling (tangbao) – Shanghai’s xiaolongbao? Wrong. It is Xi’an’s own version of soup dumplings. Instead of pork, tangbao in Xi’an is mutton meat and soup packed into a paper-thin wrapper.

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The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum are the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century. It sits around 1.5 kilometers east of  Lintong County, Shaanxi province. It is a sight not to be missed by any visitor to China.

 Open at 8:30---17:30 during March 16 to November 14

8:30---17:00 during November 15 to March 15

Ticket 150RMB(Busy season) 120(slack season)

 The museum divided into three sections: No. 1 Pit, No. 2 Pit, and No. 3 Pit respectively. They were tagged in the order of their discoveries. No. 1 Pit is the largest. There are columns of soldiers at the front, followed by war chariots at the back.

No. 2 Pit is 20 meters northeast of No. 1 Pit. It contained over a thousand warriors and 90 chariots of wood.

Archeologists came upon No. 3 Pit ,which is 25 meters northwest of No. 1 Pit. It looks like to be the command center of the armed forces. It display with 68 warriors, a war chariot and four horses.

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Greater Wild Goose Pagoda(Daci’en Pagoda) （大雁塔）

Greater Wild Goose Pagoda is the silk roads of world heritage list. Xuanzang started off from Chang'an (the ancient Xian), along the Silk Road and through deserts, finally arriving in India, the cradle of Buddhism. Built for preserving the sutra and figure of Buddha that Xuanzang bring back from India which have five floors and now have seven.

Open at 8:00---17:30

Ticket for Daci’en Pagoda 50RMB

Visited the tower for another 30RMB

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Xi’an （西安）

As four of the ancient capital city and one of the World Historical City,  XiAn have a long history. Cultural tourism absolutely can't be missed if you interested in taking a trip there. Especially the National level Shanxi History Museum. Beyond that, there's Xi'an Museum, Forest of Stone Steles Museum,Banpo Site-Museum,Bronze Ware Museum......Nine National-level museum altogether. And the most well-know museum among them all-----museum of emperor qinshihuang's buried legion.