57. The great marvels of China

  • The great marvels of China - By Pierre with Franzi

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    An image showing Franzi, my German friend, was a little reluctant at the idea of coming in China but after she did some researches on the Internet, her craze was real. I suggest you to discover in this article the wonders of China:
  • The great wall

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    An image showing How not to speak about it? Scattered on thousands of kilometers in the North of China, the pieces of wall suffered enough from their abandon.
  • The City where the loneliness is Forbidden

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    An image showing The Forbidden City takes place In front of the notorious place Tian An Men. This palace with a yellow roof as the color of the emperor, includes 980 buildings. The Forbidden City is divided between the outside court for ceremonies and the inner court where the emperor and his family lived.
  • Beijing as tourist as needed

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    An image showing In immense Beijing, that we did not find so polluted, you can take advantage of the huge infrastructure of transportation to discover the other marvels near the city: the Lama temple dedicated to the Tibetan Buddhism, Confucius temple, the Summer Palace, Beihai Park or the Bird Nest.
  • Terracotta warriors

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    An image showing Tourists come to Xi'An for more than thirty years, to take photograph the indestructible army of Qin emperor. This army is buried under several pits among which three can be visited. Five thousands of soldiers are estimated to be still buried under the site. Impressive!
  • Delicious mixture of civilization to Xi'an

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    An image showing The city of Xi'an is not only known for terracotta warriors. This former Chinese capital has a very influential Muslim community. Go to see the Mosque or make a tour in the Muslim District to vary with the Chinese food.
  • A small piece of heaven to Guilin

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    An image showing This city gathers so many wonders of nature: immense caves, calm down river where people go cormorant fishing and a maze of hills sometimes supplanted by pagoda, sometimes in the shape of elephant, sometimes simply so green as we forget all our concerns.
  • Take a breath of fresh air with Yang Shuo

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    An image showing In this village full of backpackers, we recommend you to take a mountain bike, a tandem or an electric bike and to leave for a reinvigorating tour in rice and lotus flower fields.
  • Rice fields in espalier at Long sheng

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    An image showing We remember our unforgettable walking between the villages: four hours in the heart of rice fields, far from the Chinese tourists and from the entrance too much crowded in Longji (equivalent to Disneyland). Upon the arrival, here are the magnificent terraces of Ping An.
  • The national park of Jiuzhaigou

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    An image showing The park is a major appointment of the tourists, looking for admiring lakes in the colors of pastel, blue and green.
  • Song Pan, one of the capitals of yak

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    An image showing On the road between Jiuzhaigou and Chengdu, this city is a good stop point for whom wants to taste everything made with yak. There is everything in town: meats, yoghurts, cheeses, milk, and candies with yak. For the lovers of the hiking: just go climbing until the grass of the long hair cattle.
  • The big Buddha of Leshan

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    An image showing A monster of rock sits in the hill. Down from his 71m, it reminds to the traveler the spiritual greatness of "the awake" Buddha. Chinese men put near one century to sculpture this monument. It was more than one millennium ago.
  • The pandas of Sichuan

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    An image showing This black and white bears has a red and white cousins named curiously "red pandas". They live lazily, eating their bamboo at the bottom of their cage.
  • The Hanging Temple

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    An image showing This temple is notable for its location on a sheer precipice (75 m above the ground). Its building started more than 1,500 years ago by only one man Liao Ran. This is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism and Confusianism.
  • The city of Ping Yao

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    An image showing The immense city center is enclosed by a square great wall of the Ming period (1360). It is also here that the paycheck was invented and that made of Ping Yao the first banking city of the East and a center of finances in China.
  • Let's live Avatar movie in Zhangjiajie

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    An image showing Peter Cameron wanted an exceptional place to make his dragons flying, China provided him a perfect spot!
  • The Tibetan monastery of Kumbun in Xining

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    An image showing But the wonders are sometimes situated in simple meetings in less explored places. So in the monastery of Kumbun, not far from Xining, we met the monk Jin Ba Jian Cou, who invited us at his home. We learnt about the life of the monks and the realization of thangkas, these paintings with many multicolored forms, representing divinities and decorating the Tibetan temples.
  • The Chinese country is full of wonders

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    An image showing Having appreciated the photos of this article, you will understand why China is the third country the most visited to the world (and France is first, cock-a-doodle-do!).

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