Travel Guide East Asia China

Question: How Long is the Great Wall of China?

Answer: In April 2009, researchers from China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping discovered Ming-era parts of the wall that show the Wall to be nearly 4,000 kilometers longer than originally thought. The two-year study puts the Wall today at [...]

Shanghai is a city of food. While Western restaurants can be hit-or-miss and very expensive, Chinese restaurants are understandably ubiquitous. How to navigate the world of food in Shanghai? Use my favorites list to try out different cuisines – because Chinese food as we know it in the West hardly exists outside of the tourist [...]

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 [...]

Maybe you are familiar with Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the four ancient Chinese classic masterpieces; if so you will have been impressed by the description of the luxuriant grandeur of the Grand View Garden. This is the garden in which Grandma Liu, a character in the story, becomes dizzy and staggers on [...]

In fact, the Tibetan climate is not as harsh as many people dream it to be. It is apposite for travel to Tibet from April to the start of November, and the best time is August and September. Nevertheless if you only holiday in Lhasa, you can go there anytime of the year.
The climate in [...]

If you participate in one colourful festival of Tibet, it will clearly add more to your recall of the snowland. Hardly the day passes lacking some festivities, ceremonial observances or pilgrimages occurring in Tibet. Here below is the main traditional Tibetan festivals in Tibet.
Tibetan New Year
Tibetan New Year is the most important festival in Tibet. [...]