STEVEN’S TRAVEL BLOG

February 7, 2010

Introducing Guǎngdōng

Filed under: Travel around China — Steve @ 17:49

Feisty, rebellious Guǎngdōng is China’s fastest-developing province and also one of the richest. For centuries it was isolated from the rest of China by its mountainous topography, forcing the Cantonese to rely on their own pragmatism and innovation for survival.

Situated in the fertile Pearl River Delta on the South China Sea, the Cantonese have always looked outward to the sea for their livelihood. It was along Guǎngdōng’s 800km coastline that foreign merchants first made contact with China and the ancient Maritime Silk Road had its beginnings.

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Introducing Hong Kong

Filed under: Travel around China — Steve @ 17:46

Rumours of Hong Kong’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. More than 10 years after its handover from Britain to China, this entrepreneurial, irrepressible and singular trading city is booming again.

After plagues real, financial and political, normal service has resumed. This tiny territory is punching well above its size and weight once more, only these days with a self-confidence it never had under its former masters. Hong Kong has never been busier.

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January 29, 2010

Shanghai introduction of a prohibition of smoking. Really?

Filed under: Travel around China — Steve @ 01:32
According to the Shanghai daily, enters a smoking ban on 1 Into force in March 2010 and the Shanghai Patriotic Health Campaign Commission is responsible for examining and affecting the enforcement of the measure. New anti-smoking regulations, the following, according to the China Daily: “Smoking is in the places, including kindergartens, schools, hospitals, stadiums , places of public services, shopping malls, libraries, theaters and museums prohibited. Entertainment venues, general areas of hotels, airports and train stations, ports should ban smoking at home and providing a different smoking area. The law agreed that all the separate smoking areas or rooms should be ventilated. Public places should also have prominent signs that indicate smoking is prohibited. “Since smoking about one third of China’s neighbors, it is interesting to see how the new law is enforced exclusively. It seems nothing about restaurants in the new regulations give (though I must say, it must ventilation in Shanghai, while I most of Shanghai restaurants less smoky than think many Swiss and German institutions have been better.) There is still all about elevators …

January 26, 2010

Tianping Mountain

Filed under: Travel around China — Steve @ 23:03

Tin Ping Mountain is located 3 kilometers Mudu Town, NATO is the main peak Mudu scenic area, elevation 201 meters, covering about 100 hectares. Peak Euparagonimus the name of their Tin Ping Shan, compounded by Fan Chung-yen of the emperor was buried in the foothills of the mountains were Van grave.
Tin Ping Mountain, beautiful scenery, magnificent and unusual, especially, “rocks, springs, ancient Feng” as the most, saying “balance Ruin.”

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Ancient Pine Garden

Filed under: Travel around China — Steve @ 19:55
The Ancient Pine Garden at Shantang Street is famous for a 500-year-old LuoHan pine of Ming Dynasty in the garden. It was originally the residence of a rich man Cai Shaoyu of Mudu, in the late Qing Dynasty. This garden is compact in overall arrangement and well preserved to the date. The well-decorated brick-carving gate tower is vivid both in appearance and manner. The eight lutes inscribed on the square rafters of the garden have the auspicious meaning of the get-together of eight notes . Such a style has no comparison among the gardens and architectures in the south of the Yangtze River. Being the prior-period pieces of the Engraved Building of the Dongshan town, the Phoenix Tower presents exactly the same architecture and engraving art.

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