Gallery: Transport, Rural South China
Traveling around the countryside and to small towns and markets in Asia, in this case Southern China, I'm constantly amazed at the ingenious solutions people come up with to take care of their transport needs.
Traveling around the countryside and to small towns and markets in Asia, in this case Southern China, I'm constantly amazed at the ingenious solutions people come up with to take care of their transport needs.
The famed Terra Cotta Warriors are Xian's premier tourist attraction. The life-size clay army was unearthed from the mausoleum of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
Hong Kong’s international airport occupies a flat area attached to the north side of Lantau Island.
In 2008, Beijing hosted the Summer Olympic Games. The spotlight was focused on the country. The whole nation showed tremendous enthusiasm and put on great efforts for the event which was the first for the country.
Hainan Airlines has just begin Boston to Beijing non-stop service, a nearly 6500-mile route made possible by the extended range and fuel economy of the 787.
Seems like almost every day one airline or another is announcing increased service between the U.S. and China—and American is not sitting out the increasing competition.
On my way from Hong Kong Island to Lantau Island and the Po Lin Monastery, I caught the ferry at Central for the ride to Mui Wo. Emerging from the terminal building there, I was struck by the dense sea of bicycles parked to one side.
Responding to reports of Chinese tourists being targeted by thieves in Paris, a group of Chinese police officers will patrol with their French counterparts this summer. Thieves apparently believe that Chinese tourists are more likely than most to be carrying cash.
On a walk along an isolated road in rural southern China, I came upon a wooded hillside dotted with tombs.
Air service between the East Coast and China continues to grow, along with Chinese overseas tourism and U.S. travel to China
Sometimes the most interesting things are the most mundane, people doing simple tasks as they've been done, seemingly, forever. This is a village near the Fuli market on the Li River in Guangxi Province, southern China.
Air China is launching a new long-distance route from Barcelona to Beijing, with one stop in Vienna, hoping to catch the two big waves of Chinese tourists heading for Europe and Europeans visiting China.
This gallery is just what it says, details, noticed as I went here and there during a sojourn in rural China.
Increasing Chinese tourism to the U.S. is pushing the tourism industry to get "China-ready," by preparing Chinese translations, hiring Chinese-speaking staff and tuning up to meet Chinese visitors' particular needs and interests.
On the second day of a 2-day tour of Fujian tulou clusters, begun with a large Chinese group on a bus and finished the next day alone on foot, I walked along a road with my non-English speaking guide and came upon this beautiful house.