Travel Guide East Asia China

Question: What is a re-entry visa for China and why would I need it?
Answer: Re-entry visas are required for China if you are planning to leave the country and then re-enter during your stay. For most people traveling to China on a tour or holiday, it wouldn’t be required. However, if you are planning to [...]

China is, for the most part, a pretty safe place in which to travel – you don’t have to worry about accidentally venturing into the wrong part of town. That said, you need to have your wits about you and ensure that you travel safely and prudently. There are a few customs that foreign guests [...]

Your trip to China will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Make sure you make the most of it!
1. Getting grossed out
Come on now, you’ve heard the saying, “the Chinese eat every part of the pig but the oink”. Well, there may be a seed of truth to every legend, but consider that with over a billion [...]

If you can move your trip back to avoid the week-long holiday around China’s National Day, October 1st, then traveling in October can be one of the best months to visit. Autumn is really starting to get into full swing in central China and you’ll find cooling temperatures and mild, sunny weather. Fall foliage will [...]

The Moon festival (also called the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn festival) falls on October 3rd in the year 2009. What is the Moon festival? Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate “zhong qiu jie.” [...]

From the comfort of our home on a very rainy day in Shanghai, my family tuned in to the PRC’s National Day Parade. If you’ll recall, I thought it would be fun to take my family to Beijing to watch it live, but found out quickly that going to Beijing was out of the question. [...]

Overview:
Suzhou is a famous city throughout China for its gardens. Historically a wealthy city, due in part for its large silk industry, many of its residents built classical gardens that are preserved and open to the public today. Nine of the gardens are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site list. Here’s a [...]

Located on China’s northern border east of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north of the Soongnei Plain, and south of Russia, Daxinganling is a natural unpolluted area with a vast peculiar landscape of forest, rivers and snow.
As the largest modern national forest area in China, Daxinganling is home to many rare [...]

A “Dangdang car”, the old-fashioned trolley car, runs on Qianmen Street, one of the old commercial areas of Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2009. The reopened Qianmen Street attracted a lot of tourists during the National Day holidays, which overlaps the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival this year.

Crowds of tourists visit the Qianmen Street, one of [...]

Pointed hat or Gucci? How to dress our little Chinese rule? Are they at the cutting edge of fashion and dressed in rags? … Or a mixture of both? :-p
The pijamas
In fact there is a bit of everything in China according to age, but very often it is anything that takes precedence, to the delight [...]