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  • China - Yangtze River

    The Yangtze River is the longest river in China. The Three Gorges Dam, the largest water conservancy project ever undertaken by man, is now being built at Sandouping in the middle of Xiling Gorge, the longest of the famous Yangtze Three Gorges...

  • China - Kashgar

    Kashgar, the last stop on the Silk Road, is in the province of Xinjiang. Xinjiang is huge, about four times the size of Japan. It shares an international border with eight other nations and is the largest province in China, comprising 16% of the country's land surface...

  • China - Turpan

    Turpan is located in Xinjiang Province, the hottest, lowest part of China. Xinjiang, a vast dry plain, stretches for thousands of kilometres before ending abruptly at the foot of a towering mountain range...

  • China - Dunhuang

    Of all the travellers on the Silk Road, the most famous was Marco Polo. He left Venice with his father when he was 17 and finally arrived in Beijing four years later...

  • China - Xiahe Silk Road

    Lanzhou, a one hour flight from Xian, is the jumping-off point for several Silk Road destinations. From Lanzhou, you travel for three hours up the Yellow River, the ninth largest river in the world. The Yellow River is known as the cradle of Chinese civilisation, but contrary to what you might expect, it's very peaceful and quiet along the river, with not a person in sight...

  • China - Xian Silk Road

    The Silk Road stretches 5000 kilometres west to Kashgar, just 400 kilometres from the border of Pakistan...

  • China - Tibetan Region

    Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the novel Lost Horizon by British writer James Hilton in 1933. In it, "Shangri-La" is a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya...

  • China - Silk Road

    Xian marks the beginning of the Silk Road. It is China's oldest city and is the start of the route travelled by merchants, bandits, pilgrims and soldiers. The Silk Road stretches 5000 kilometre's west to Kashgar, just 400 kilometres from the border of Pakistan...

  • China - Guilin and Longsheng

    Let your hair down with the long-haired ladies of Longsheng

    Guilin's dramatic limestone peaks have been an inspiration to Chinese artists and poets for centuries. Guilin is situated in the northeast of the Guangxi Region on the west back of the beautiful Li River. Guilin is considered the pearl of China's thriving tourist industry on account of its natural beauty and historic treasures. It is an ideal base from which to explore the surrounding ethnic villages and countryside...

  • China - Li River and Yangshuo factsheet 14

    Limestones & lush landscapes along the legendary Li

    Experience one of China's most transcendental boat journeys along the legendary Li River. One thousand years ago a Chinese poet wrote about this famous journey, saying that "the river is a green silk ribbon, and the hills are jade hair-pins"...

  • China - Yunnan Province

    Step back into the China of Old...

    Dali is an ancient town set at the foot of the spectacular Cangshan mountain range. It is located in the Yunnan Province, in the most southwest region of China. The province borders Vietnam, Laos and Burma. Until recently, Yunnan was largely cut off from the rest of the world due to its precipitous mountain ranges...

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