Category: Destination & Places

Jiuzhaigou is now a carefully managed tourist attraction that, during the high season, sees over ten thousand visitors a day. It wasn’t always that way and as Sascha Matuszak reminisces about his first visit there a decade ago, that’s not necessarily such a bad thing. Read on for his story plus useful travel tips on…

Ever since the phenomenal success of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, awareness of both China’s wuxia genre of films (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) and of Wudang Mountain (Wudang Shan) itself have increased significantly. And each year, the amount of tourists visiting Wudang Shan increases by about 200,000, and with them come dreams of…

The notorious Chungking Mansions and neighboring Mirador Mansions in Kowloon’s Tsim Sha Tsui, can be intimidating at first sight, especially as a solo female traveler. Full of aggressive touts and frequented mainly by African and South Asian men who gather round the entrances, there’s barely a woman to be seen here. But they also offer…

Ahh the Great Wall of China. Or as the Chinese like to say, Chángchéng, literally, the “Long Wall.” Every kid in the world has heard of the Great Wall and until I double-checked, I was among the many that said things like: “The Great Wall of China is the only man-made thing visible from the…

[showtime] (Click left or right of the image to view slideshow) Whatever your thoughts about Shanghai Expo, its legacy to the city’s urban infrastructure cannot be denied. So the clean air and construction-free city center may be a distant memory, but being the world’s stage for six months sure gave a boost to projects such…