Xiamen is one of the ports that China opened when it started the open market policy 30 years ago. Most of the investments come from foreign or Chinese Diasporas especially Taiwanese businesses who have heavily invested a lot in this city and it shows in the modernity and beauty of this city. It also […]
The date was getting close to the expiry of my visa. I took a train to go further south East in China to get to a small city called Xiamen, just across the straits from Taiwan.
Part of the trip was on a slow train almost and it took 14 hours and the […]
Yellow Mountain or in Chinese HuangShan, is 1580 meter with very steep cliffs, these cliffs were in part an inspiration for the cliffs you see in the movie Avatar.
There’s no train that goes to directly to Huangshan, so I took the bus arriving from HangZhou to arrive in a small town of […]
When Marco Polo visited Hangzhou he said “beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world.”, and when Ibn Battuta visited this city in the 13 century he said it’s the largest city he has ever seen. We hear so often about Shanghai and how impressive it is, but much of the […]
I don’t have much to say on this post, but you can check out the nice pictures. I took these pictures when I visited Zhujiajiao a little water town similar to Venice or Amsterdam, where you see the houses and the shops on both sides of the water canals. Very nice […]
I went to a traditional Szechwan restaurant, it was a nice experience, they had on stage a performance called “Changing Faces” in which one of the performers changes a face mask, but with a trick, you can’t tell how he changes the mask, you only see the result. At the restaurant they have […]
I went to Nanjing, although it’s not as big as Shanghai, still it has a population of 8 million. I don’t think there are many cities in China with a population of less than a couple of millions and they’re considered small cities in comparison to the big cities like Shanghai, Beijing. Nanjing […]
Shanghai is one of the largest cities in the world; its population estimated as of 2011 at 23 million, I haven’t got a chance to know all of them yet 🙂
Shanghai is probably the best example to show the transformation of China over the past 3 decades. Shanghai’s modern architecture rivals what […]
I’ve been in Shanghai for few days and visited many quarters, it’s not easy to see everything, it’s a huge city. I visited the French concession or quarter; it’s where you see many building from the era when the French were in Shanghai. I also visited The Bund; it’s where Shanghai first started, […]
I left Hong Kong right away after receiving the visa, I had less than an hour to catch the train that goes to Shanghai, otherwise I would have to stay 2 more days for the next train. I found out later that a lot of people don’t know that there’s a train that […]
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